A not so new year for hookers After a bizarre and short-lived pre-holiday media hysteria, Hochelaga’s prostitutes are still out in the cold ANY GIRLS HERE? Ontario E.
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Few will argue that having nodding or cracked out prostitutes on your street corner is a desirable thing. But Émilie Laliberté, of the sex workers rights group Stella, says the women are there mostly because they have nowhere else to go. The neighbourhood, she and others say, is woefully lacking in resources for addicts, especially shelters where they can spend the night. Most of the shelters in Montreal wont let in people who are obviously intoxicated from either drugs or alcohol, so users have to crash on the streets or in crack houses or shooting galleries.
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In the meantime, Laliberté suggests residents try a little neighbourliness. As we told the two women who started the Facebook groupand we do believe they arent out to hurt the women, they do have a social conscienceif they had some sort of contact with them, just saying hello, that can create a link. Then they can ask them to work a couple of blocks away from the school, and [the prostitutes] will usually be understanding.

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