Her friend went elsewhere shortly after they arrived in Montreal and left her alone with the two brothers. She had had a previous sexual relationship with one of the brothers but testified she was surprised when they pressured her into working as a prostitute in Montreal. One threatened her with violence but she still refused.
After being in Montreal for a matter of days, the brothers introduced her to Myles Tynes, 35, of Lachine, one of the accused. It was Tynes, the woman said, who convinced her to work as a prostitute.
“I had no choice. I was stuck in Montreal with no one I knew,” the woman said while cross-examined by defence lawyer Pierre L’Ecuyer.
He asked the witness why she would refuse to work as a prostitute for two men she knew but suddenly agree to do the same thing for Tynes, a man she had just met.

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Prostitute ‘had no choice’ Trial testimony. Two men accused of forcing girls to work for escort agency  By PAUL CHERRY, The Gazette August 27, 2010 8:10 AM  
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Her friend went elsewhere shortly after they arrived in Montreal and left her alone with the two brothers. She had had a previous sexual relationship with one of the brothers but testified she was surprised when they pressured her into working as a prostitute in Montreal. One threatened her with violence but she still refused.
After being in Montreal for a matter of days, the brothers introduced her to Myles Tynes, 35, of Lachine, one of the accused. It was Tynes, the woman said, who convinced her to work as a prostitute.
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He asked the witness why she would refuse to work as a prostitute for two men she knew but suddenly agree to do the same thing for Tynes, a man she had just met.

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MONTREAL – A Quebec Court judge has rescinded an order he made Wednesday to exclude the public from a trial of two men charged with forcing two minors to work for an escort agency.
Ruling on an objection made by The Gazette, Judge Pierre Labelle ruled the Crown did not offer any evidence that such an order was warranted.
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superieure, 1100 Notre Dame St. W., corner Peel (1997) With 5,000 students from across Quebec, this engineering school affiliated with the Universite du Quebec now occupies the former Dow Brewery site. It is in the process of converting an elegant, nine-storey former Dow building built in 1925 at the northwest corner of Peel and William Sts. to house businesses where ETS students can gain work experience.
11. Dow Planetarium, 1000 St. Jacques St. W., near Peel (opened April 1966)
New Skies for a New City was the name of the first show at this building endowed by Dow Breweries. It’s now known as the Montreal Planetarium.
12. Former Griffintown Police Station, 217-219 Young St. (1875) This modest stone structure was serving the working-class district in 1876, when 12,894 starving Montrealers sought refuge in police cells during a depression. It was here that prostitute Susan Kennedy was charged with murder after beheading Mary Gallagher in 1879. Former residents gather every seven years to watch for Gallagher’s ghost.

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Tremblay cited Parentâs clear mission, many years of experience, and history of direct engagement with various communities across Montreal as the main reasons for his choice.
âœThis was a very difficult decision,â said Tremblay at a press conference held Thursday afternoon. âœMarc Parent, for me, had a mission and a vision that he intends to put into practice as soon as possible.â
Earlier this week, the field was narrowed from five candidates to two by a selection committee created especially to help choose a replacement for outgoing police Chief Yvan Delorme, and the names of those two candidates were then handed over to the Mayor.
Tremblayâs other possible choice was Montrealâs current assistant-chief, Jean-Guy Gagnon. Both Parent and Gagnon met with the mayor for several hours, during which time Tremblay said they discussed everything from prostitution to racial profiling to collective agreements.

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A small number of postings involved erotic massage, escort services, topless performances for television and webcams, and bars featuring semi-nude staff.
The 11 items in the âœotherâ category included âœsemi-nude butler, nude cleaner, kissogram.â
An official at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada said Monday that Canada has no specific rules prohibiting job postings from the sex industry.
But HRSDC said the federal government and those provincial governments who collectively use the departmentâs âœJob Bankâ website monitor all ads from a âœvalues and ethicsâ perspective.
âœIf any ad is flagged to be of questionable integrity, it is reviewed and investigated and can be blocked or removed as required.â
A search of the Job Bank Monday found no openings for strippers, though there was advertisement for a managerâs position at an escort agency.

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OTTAWA â Prosecutors and police will have enhanced powers to tackle prostitution, illegal gambling and drug trafficking activities by organized crime under new measures announced Wednesday by the Conservative government.
The new rules expand the list of what constitutes a serious crime in the Criminal Code â meaning offences punishable by five or more years in prison â to activities such as keeping a common bawdy house, keeping a gaming or betting house and exporting, importing or producing illegal drugs.
Although the new rules were welcomed by police organizations, opposition MPs said the government should have subjected the proposed changes to parliamentary scrutiny.
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He said, for example, three prostitutes living and receiving their clients in a shared apartment or three or more people playing poker for money could, if convicted, be branded as “serious offenders” and sentenced to five years in prison.

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MONTREAL – Law enforcement is about to get tougher on three of organized crime’s biggest money-making machines: gambling, prostitution and drugs.
The Conservative government has broadened the definition of a “serious offence” under organized-crime legislation in an effort to prosecute and punish those groups’ most lucrative activities.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced the changes at a news conference Wednesday. He said the new rules focus on things currently not considered serious offences, like book-making and bawdy houses.
“What I’ve been told by law-enforcement agents and provincial authorities is we should get all the offences included,” Nicholson told The Canadian Press in an interview.
“It gets them all, so that if a person involved in any type of illegal activity, if they’re involved in organized crime, it gets caught within the serious offences provision.”
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“What we find is that if you’re into illegal gaming, if you’re into prostitution, many times this is the currency of organized crime.”

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Reached at the Centre de services preventifs a l’enfance on Ste. Catherine St. E. attended by hundreds of children each week, Julien said he’s glad that Quebec is planning long-term support but added past experience has taught him not to expect too much from promises.
“I’ll be happier when I get the money,” said Julien, whose role as a social physician goes beyond his medical clinic’s walls to mobilize the community.
“One in three children are not ready to start school because of developmental problems and we can prevent school dropouts if we can support them properly. We should target these children first,” Julien said.
Programs cut include special summer camps that prepare vulnerable children for school and Ruelle anime, a paved alleyway behind the centre for supervised games that last year ran seven days a week from noon to 8 p.m., providing children with a safe place to play away from drugs, pedophiles and prostitution.

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MONTREAL – In the 15 years he’s lived near Henri Bourassa Park, Gerardo Escobar says he never noticed any taxing, prostitution, street gangs or armed robberies, despite authorities’ claims that such crimes were rampant.
In fact, Aug. 9, 2008 -when unarmed teen Fredy Villanueva was fatally shot by police -was the first time there’d been any trouble, the Montreal North resident said.
Testifying yesterday at the coroner’s inquest into the shooting, Escobar said he had been in the park playing soccer when Montreal police Constable Jean-Loup Lapointe jumped out of his cruiser with his partner and threw Fredy’s older brother, Dany Villanueva, against the hood of the car.
“When the police pushed his face against the trunk, Dany pulled himself up,” Escobar said. “It’s a normal reaction. He was reacting against what the police were doing.”

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