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(88) The SCC found that the object of the Bawdy-House Offence was "to prevent community harms in the nature of nuisance" (89) or to "combat neighbourhood disruption or disorder and to safeguard public health and safety." (90) The Court held that the negative impact was grossly disproportionate to its objective, reasoning that: "[t]he harms identified by the courts below are grossly disproportionate to the deterrence of community disruption that is the object of the law.

At issue were section 210 and the definition of "common bawdy house" in section 197(1) [the "common bawdy-house provisions"], section 212(1)(j) [the "living on the avails provisions"], and section 213(1)(c) [the "communication for the purposes provisions"] of the Criminal Code.

(6) In Bedford, three sex workers sought a declaration that three of those restrictions were unconstitutional: the offence of keeping a common bawdy-house (s.

(28) Their challenge was structured around four claims: 1) that the "bawdy-house", communication, and living on the avails provisions compromised their section 7 rights under the Charter to life, liberty, and security of the person; 2) that the violations did not comport with the principles of fundamental justice (that is, they infringed Charter rights in an arbitrary, overbroad, or grossly disproportionate way); 3) that the communication law violated their s.2(b) rights to freedom of expression; and 4) that these violations were not justifiable limits in a free and democratic society under s.

In Bedford, three sex workers challenged the bawdy-house, (32) living on the avails, (33) and communication (34) provisions of the Criminal Code.

prohibit the operation of a common bawdy-house and living on the avails

From the etymology just outlined, we see that the term, "jazz," first entered the vocabulary of white America in 1914, and it carried with it, loose, free-swinging, bawdy-house connotations.

Toronto's Globe and Mail opined that Parliament was "unlikely to get very far" in any effort to redraft the bawdy-house section, in view of last year's fiasco of the Vancouver injection-site defeat.

With respect to the bawdy-house provisions, Justice Himel stated that morality was one of the original objectives, but that the provisions were also intended to address common or public nuisance concerns, such as health, safety and neighbourhood disruption.

And, through no intention of Wolfe or, I assume, of the editors of the volume under review, a comic irony enters the text with the photographic portraits of the four dead presidents in grey, bewhiskered dignity, presiding gravely over rhapsodic accounts of the wildness of their youthful impulses (in the unedited typescript Wolfe had them waiting in anticipation at bawdy-house doors).

An anti-homosexual campaign by American Christian evangelist Anita Bryant came to Toronto in January 1978, galvanizing both sides of the human rights debate, and in December 1978, bawdy-house charges were laid against the Barracks Bathhouse, again focusing public attention on the public sexual practices of gay men.