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Earlier this year in Halifax, a former sex worker won a precedent-setting case. Brogan, the plaintiff, took a client to small claims court for not paying her and she won! It’s the first time a court has ruled on the enforceability of contracts between sex workers and their clients. It affirms what we’ve been saying all along: sex work is work!
In January of last year, Bradley Samuelson contacted Brogan on LeoList, an online advertising platform for sex workers. She told him her rate of $300 per hour plus transportation, he agreed and paid for her Uber to his apartment. She spent seven hours with her client, but after much wrangling, only got paid for an hour’s worth of work.
Unpacking the win
What’s really interesting about this decision is that the adjudicator gives not one, but two reasons why Brogan won her claim – the first being that a contract was established, the second being unjust enrichment. There is also a third reason that she deserved to win, but it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the ruling: the interconnectedness of payment and consent. I’ll be unpacking all three factors today. [...]
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Wholesome Pigeons - Halifax, Nova Scotia
#photography#nature#bird#birding#harbor#pigeons#pigeon#halifax#nova scotia#port#dock#love#wholesome#birds#preen#preening#Canada#maritimes
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A washing line strung across the street in Halifax, West Yorkshire, ca. 1964 - by John Bulmer (1938), English
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🎩 so i met miss lister today
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Did the bartender or server SAY that Sid and Nate were there together?
No, but I choose to believe it.
Did Kevin Strom say Nate and Sid were having a DIRTY weekend?
No, he said they were having a DRY weekend. But still! They do dry weekends together!
#sidney crosby#nathan mackinnon#halifax#nova scotia#sid and nate#nate and sid#cole harbour#pittsburgh penguins#josh yohe#colorado avalanche
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Let there be light!
#french canadian#folk magick#witchblr#christianity#witchcraft#quebec#folk magic#altars#halifax#acadia
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The thing that really gets me about humanity is the kindness that follows tragedy and coming together as a community and loving each other
When the Titanic sank, the Carpathia raced to provide any help they could. They didn't have to, certainly, no one expected them to, but they did
and when the Mont Blanc exploded in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada one man Patrick Coleman went back to his post to warn the railways to stop the trains preventing hundreds from dying
on 9/11 there were 38 planes that had nowhere to land so the Air traffic controllers had them land in Canada in a small town called Gander and all the people there banded together to provide shelter and food for all the 6,000+ passengers on the planes
in a small town in Minnesota, USA 20 people lined up to give CPR to a man who had had a heart attack until paramedics could arrive and saved his life because of it
thousands of years ago somebody cared for a person who had broken their leg, which would usually be a fatal injury, and nursed them back to health
every tragedy has a kindness in it, people helping others in the face of loneliness, desperation, and destruction
and then there is the kindness we show when no huge tragedy has happened but life has happened instead
An adult in the time of King Tut made in him a tunic with ducks on it and a chest with ducks and sandals and earrings with ducks because he loved them so much
people take time out of their day to help an old person cross the street
chasing after somebody because they dropped something and you are trying desperately to return it
leaving food for homeless people
caring for others through an illness
and then there is the community
humans banding together
singing together, a sad tragic song and making it happy and soothing because they are singing it together
humans coming together to let someone buy back their farm at auction
helping one another, being kind and loving each other in the face of tradegy and despair this is what it means to be human
#humans being kind#humanity#minnesota#canada#halifax#king tut#titanic#rms carpathia#i was listening to the come from away soundtrack#and i couldnt stop thinking of all those people#they gave up their time and town for others#people racing to one another#to help and love and be kind#its the very root of humanity#history#9/11#humans being humans
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ROUND 1, Part 3
#Round 1#Magia Record#Tiracchana#Merkava#Halifax#Lakehurst#Yuna Kureha#Hikaru Kirari#Ao Kasane#Juri Ooba
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Relaxing by a fire after a day of hiking and exploring.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
1913
#vintage camping#campfire light#halifax#history#camping#hiking#exploring#fishing#outdoors#campfire#travel
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An unhoused man recovering from surgery is speaking out after he was recently denied a stay at a Halifax-area hotel room, despite having the money to pay for it.
Jacob Hicks – who lives in a tent at a ballfield in the Halifax suburb of Lower Sackville – says he’s “used to being discriminated against” due to his housing status, but that doesn’t quell the disappointment he felt when the Stardust Motel in neighbouring Bedford turned him away.
“You get treated like you’re less than human, and it kind of hurt,” he said.
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#cdnpoli#canada#canadian politics#canadian news#canadian#discrimination#classism#halifax#nova scotia#housing
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From the article:
"People in Halifax were able to digitize their historical photographs on Sunday and share them publicly as part of an initiative by the Halifax municipal archives.
"The archives held a Scan-a-thon at the Halifax Central Library for members of the public to bring in treasured photographs, slides and negatives that showed local history.
"Municipal archivist Susan McClure said the archives are looking for any historical photos, including neighbourhoods, construction projects and pictures connected to the railway."
#archives#archivists#archive workers#librarians#library workers#tumblarians#Halifax#Nova Scotia#Canadian libraries#public libraries#Halifax Central Library#scan-a-thon#i love that word it's just so neat#local history#digitization#citizen archivists#citizen historians
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#halifax#landscape photography#brutalism#architectural photography#brutalist architecture#street photography
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Halifax, Nova Scotia 2010
From my new photobook: "Found Fields" now for sale at Blurb Books You can preview it there, and also buy it as a PDF.
https://www.blurb.ca/b/11840587-found-fields
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