The tide is turning....maybe?

Oh, isn't it heartening to see stories like this one starting to crop up in "respectable" papers like the Montreal Gazette? There was a time when this kind of coverage would have started with the police version of things and then maybe - maybe - allowed the sex worker a paragraph or two at the very bottom to protest that in fact, she was perfectly happy in her work.
Can we call this progress? Perhaps, but so slow!