Category: In The News
Accused claims prostitution legal
Suspected pimp, the accused, was told by police and city officials that the escort industry fronted sex trade was legal, he testified yesterday. The accused [...]
Escort licences mulled at trial
Calgary escorts must be fingerprinted in case they end up dead in a ditch, the city’s chief licence inspector said yesterday. Mare Halat told a [...]
Definitely not your opera date
Strictly speaking, the city has not legalized prostitution. But, in licensing escort agencies, it has entered a morally compromised area. And, it should leave it. [...]
Courtroom ‘dramedy’ shows just how blind city officials choose to be
“For $50, I learned you could ‘relate without getting close.’ For $100, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner and then let [...]
Prostitute’s last known john talks
Hours before tumbling into her death from the 22nd floor of a Vancouver hotel room, a Calgary escort was selling sex for cash, a pimping [...]
Man who chased attacker no vigilante, lawyer argues
CALGARY - Was [the accused] being a helpful citizen or a vigilante when he pursued a teen into a residence after the teen allegedly assaulted [...]
Court finds man justified in chasing teen who assaulted man
Cochrane’s [accused] was justified in chasing an assault suspect into a home, but went too far when he bashed in a bedroom door. That’s what [...]
Salesman cleared in pursuit of suspect
[The accused] was justified in pursuing a teen into a residence after he allegedly assaulted a man with his skateboard outside a Cochrane pub, a [...]
Good Samaritan acquitted of charge after chasing teen
A citizen can still be a Good Samaritan, with limits, a Calgary jury ruled April 8. [the accused], 29, was acquitted of a break and [...]
Judge sides with Good Samaritan who chased assault suspect
[A] would-be Good Samaritan won’t have a criminal record for breaking a door while chasing an assault suspect into a home. Justice Adele Kent yesterday [...]