The rally comes after a recent police warning advising sex-trade workers to avoid the Salmon River Road area.

Following a meeting that saw over 20 members of the public weigh in, Regina City Council voted to license "body rub establishment" owners and workers.

A sex workers' advocate says the response to B.C.'s viral safe sex guidance, including "glory holes" has been immature.

Amnesty International Canada has joined a number of rights and sex work advocates in a lobby effort asking federal Justice Minister David Lametti for a moratorium on prostitution laws.

Sex workers' rights groups have started relief funds to help offset lost income during the coronavirus pandemic.

Storry's album lands in the midst of a mainstream re-examination of how women in the sex industry are portrayed and received.

Oluwatobi Boyede, who pleaded guilty last month to the October 2017 murder of Josie Glenn, has now been sentenced in connection with a separate incident in February 2017. 

A 51-year-old man is now facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of Marylène Lévesque, who was killed in a hotel in Sainte-Foy in January.

People connected to the industry say the Jan. 22 death of Marylene Levesque in a suburban Quebec City hotel has exposed hypocrisy in the way the law is enforced in this country and highlighted the cowardice of Canada's political class on the issue of sex work.

The exchange came as MPs debated a Conservative motion condemning the recent death of a sex worker.