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Canadian Public Health Association

Toronto Sex Workers Supported By COVID-19 Relief Fund

Al Donato

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Huffington Post

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Sex work itself is decriminalized in Canada, but the industry is socially stigmatized and often on murky legal grounds. Government aid that requires legal identification or background checks may be invasive or impossible to comply with for survival sex workers, Ade Kur notes, a term the Canadian Public Health Association defines as those who engage in sex work out of “extreme need.”


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