Dorval massage parlour busted
The Gazette Monday, February 13, 2012
Three people have been charged with running a common bawdy house and prostitution following a recent raid on a Dorval massage parlour.
Montreal police community relations officer Hélène Jubinville at Station 5 in Pointe Claire said police from the station descended on Spa Luna at 185 Dorval Ave. on February 7 at about noon along with officers from the service’s West Island vice-squad.
…
Two other establishments in Montreal’s east end were also searched as part of the operation, Jubinville said. The owner of the Dorval massage parlour is among the two men and one woman now charged.  One of the three is a West Island resident.
Spa Luna’s website appeared closed Monday but one poster on another Montreal website devoted to exotic massage parlours described Spa Luna as a great place for a “stud out.” Another wrote: “Saw Anika … indeed a good time … Alisha not so hot.”

See the full article from “West Island Gazette”

MONTREAL – The exploding array of sexual services in Quebec massage parlours is transforming the sex trade, and traditional masseuses say they are being squeezed out by escorts offering “extras.”
QMI Agency has learned that more than half of listed erotic massage parlours offer the same services as escort agencies.
One employee, who gave his name as Dave, says competition between salons is fierce and has led owners to push staffers towards prostitution.
“I can confirm to you that (women) are offering full services in the salons, and it’s often at the urging of the bosses,” said Dave.
…
He said the only difference between escort agencies and the debauched massage parlours is that intercourse and oral sex are extra at the parlours.
…
A QMI journalist visited eight erotic massage parlours in the Montreal area, and just two said sex acts were barred.

See the full article from “Sun News Network”

Massage parlours overrun by prostitution
0
QMI Agency First posted: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:43 PM CST | Updated: Monday, February 13, 2012 02:20 PM CST
MONTREAL – The exploding array of sexual services in Quebec massage parlours is transforming the sex trade, and traditional masseuses say they are being squeezed out by escorts offering “extras.”
QMI Agency has learned that more than half of listed erotic massage parlours offer the same services as escort agencies.
One employee, who gave his name as Dave, says competition between salons is fierce and has led owners to push staffers towards prostitution.
…
He said the only difference between escort agencies and the debauched massage parlours is that intercourse and oral sex are extra at the parlours.
…
A QMI journalist visited eight erotic massage parlours in the Montreal area, and just two said sex acts were barred.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Sun”

MONTREAL – The exploding array of sexual services in Quebec massage parlours is transforming the sex trade, and traditional masseuses say they are being squeezed out by escorts offering “extras.”
QMI Agency has learned that more than half of listed erotic massage parlours offer the same services as escort agencies.
One employee, who gave his name as Dave, says competition between salons is fierce and has led owners to push staffers towards prostitution.
“I can confirm to you that (women) are offering full services in the salons, and it’s often at the urging of the bosses,” said Dave.
…
He said the only difference between escort agencies and the debauched massage parlours is that intercourse and oral sex are extra at the parlours.
…
A QMI journalist visited eight erotic massage parlours in the Montreal area, and just two said sex acts were barred.

See the full article from “24 Hours Vancouver”

… The plots of farm fields are much longer than a typical field on a farm in central Illinois.
-The team’s hotel is quite near a major city park where there are very few homeless and panhandlers.
-There is a marked absence of police on the major retail street running through Montreal, and yet it is quite clear that people feel quite safe walking on that street.
-The team’s hotel was designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright and is characterized by having ornate balconies and rounded windows for the rooms.
-Despite all the emphasis in tourist guides about the dominance of the French language in Montreal almost everyone I have encountered speaks English.
-Noticed an interesting mix of businesses in one building where there was a Virgin Mobile store on the ground floor and on the second floor was a triple x rated massage parlor.

See the full article from “WJBC News”

On the limping, older-looking Layton, the signature grey moustache looked less a stray seventies relic and more a possible homage to, say, Depression-era CCFers. Rhetoric that would before have sounded brassy now came off as brave. He picked up steam. Even a late-campaign news story revealing that Layton had been found by Toronto police, back in 1996, in a dubious massage parlour didn’t derail him. Calling the story a “smear,” he said he went for a therapeutic massage and denied anything sexual happened. “I don’t even remember the name of the place,” he says. (It was Velvet Touch.) “I thought it was a legit operation until the police told me otherwise.” Even that lurid distraction couldn’t compete in the public imagination with the sight of Layton raising his talismanic walking stick high as he soaked up the cheers at a packed rally—the picture that will surely last as the 2011 election’s iconic image.

See the full article from “Macleans.ca”

MONTREAL, Canada—Shunga Erotic Art, a cosmetic brand manufactured in Montreal, Canada, and geared to enhance couples’ intimate moments, has been once again nominated and this time, in four different categories at the 2011 “O” Awards.
This year, Shunga’s organic line is getting a solid three nominations: Outstanding Non-Powered Products and Outstanding Packaging for their Garden of Edo Organic Intimate Collection, as well as Outstanding Lube, Lotion or Potion for their Green Tea Intimate Kisses Aphrodisiac Oil.
The Shunga organic product line for intimate moments has been created for those who are passionate about lovemaking and nature. All products contain carefully selected certified organic ingredients. The Garden of Edo collection includes five top quality must-have products: the Erotic Massage Oil, Toko Organica Lubricant, Intimate Kisses Aphrodisiac Oil, Lotus Noir Sensitizing Gel For Lovers and the Oriental Crystals Foaming & Scented Dead Sea Salt.

See the full article from “AVN News (press release)”

Newfie thinks this is indicative of any party not used to the limelight. “Growing pains for a group of inexperienced politicians who are not use to the limelight,” Newfie wrote. “The Conservatives were like that when they first took power under Harper but they learned to keep their mouth shut, and I mean completely shut.” 
Guyfibre thinks this is a sign of things to come. “Jack must be shaking his head and sick with worry. He’s in deep – too deep. Let the Gong Show begin.”
Jack Layton, NDP leader and now officially the leader of the opposition, speaks to the media at a press conference in Toronto on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. (Nathan Denette/ Canadian Press).
The Ontario Provincial Police aren’t laying charges in a leak about the 1996 visit to a massage parlour that found NDP Leader Jack Layton inside.
The police force was investigating the information leak about the 1996 incident at the request of the Toronto Police Service, whose officers raided a suspected bawdy house posing as a massage parlour in 1996.

See the full article from “CBC.ca”

… The essence of that plan is to phone all the other leaders and say this what we’d like to accomplish, depending on the scenarios, hoping we’re in the leadership position,” Layton said.
He did not rule out working with the Conservatives, however unlikely that may seem given the bitter tone of the election campaign.
He’ll work with anyone, “if there’s a dance partner – if Stephen Harper happens to be there, (or) another leader,” Layton said in his last interview as the NDP campaign winged its way to Montreal from Vancouver.
And he dismissed as a smear campaign the furor over reports on the weekend that said Layton – a brash city councillor and deputy mayor of Toronto at the time – was a customer at a massage parlour when it was targeted in a police raid in 1996.

See the full article from “Global Montreal”

… Gratified” and “heartened” was how he described his feelings about his party’s unprecedented surge but he admitted, “you never know how polls are going to translate into ballots and how ballots are going translate into seats.”
“I use the expression that winds of change are blowing and I’m just hoping that the weather forecast is windy right through the end of the polls,” he said.
Layton’s ear-to-ear grin faded only once during that airplane chat.
While the Montreal rally was Layton’s high point, the low point came three days before the vote when an innocuous, albeit sensational, part of his past was dredged up in what NDP supporters say was a bid to tarnish his character.
A Toronto newspaper reported Layton had visited a licensed massage parlour in the mid-1990s that had been raided by police as a suspected bawdy house.

See the full article from “Vancouver Sun”