This is a disturbing development - everybody on the government side of the upcoming Pickton inquest gets taxpayer-funded lawyers, but not the sex workers' groups, aboriginals or residents of the Downtown Eastside. Hmm - that's just a tad obvious, isn't it?

OK, there's never going to be enough public money to go round, but it's just a little unsettling when ALL the money goes to one side of the case and none to the other. The scales of justice seem to be tipping rather firmly in one direction....

New comic-strip book touts johndom

Gotta like a man who steps out of that deep, dark closet and reveals himself as an enthusiast of the sex industry. Check out this book review of "Paying For It," by Chester Brown. It's a comic-strip memoir of life as a customer, and definitely sounds like a great gift book to slide into the hands of all those friends of yours who you fear would faint dead away if they knew you paid for sex. But then again, maybe they do, too.

Court resumes in June

An update on the court challenge to Canada's sex-work laws. The next round starts in June. Maybe common sense will prevail and we'll cease all this silliness and just get down to making a sensible decision to scrap a lot of these damnable laws. Yeah, right.