A Vancouver councillor broke into tears as she read a statement Friday, noting the city’s role in forcing prostitutes from the West End. Supreme Court judge ordered all prostitutes out of the West End a year later. “What has happened in the West End is an urban tragedy that should never have occurred,” wrote Chief Justice Allan McEachern, in his 1984 decision. Far from a lurid free-for-all, she recalls the West End of the early 1980s as “a dignified outdoor brothel culture. And the $28,000 in fines the city collected from sex workers back in 1982?

Source: National Post September 17, 2016 02:52 UTC