D Block Physical Geography - Quiz time. Today is your Geomorphology quiz and if you prepared I'm certain you'll do fine. You may use your work/note package to help. There are 35 multiple selection questions in total which should take you about a half hour to 40 minutes to complete. What are we doing for the rest of the class? You may finish up the work from the geomorphology unit and if there's time we'll start looking at weather, the best topic ever! I'll have you brainstorm a list of things you know (or think you know) about weather and then I'll try to answer questions you've always wanted answered about the topic. FYI...Every day in our weather unit we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office Comox
B Block Criminology - Finish your gang poster. You have access to computers and a printer. Get it done. Gangs are often considered "immoral" and their profit comes from many "immoral" things. Immoral acts are distinguished from crimes on the basis of the social harm they cause. Acts that are believed to be extremely harmful to the general public are usually outlawed, whereas acts that only the harm the actor themselves are more likely to be tolerated. Acts that are illegal because they are viewed as a threat to morality are called public order crimes. So, to curb the power of cartels or gangs should we take some radical action? Should we cut off their source of income (like drugs and sex trade workers)? Here are the two questions for you to answer:
- Should drugs be legalized? Why? If you believe drugs should be legalized, think about whether all drugs should be legalized or just a select few. Why should certain drugs be legalized and others not? Use the resources on Tuesday's blog post to help shape your answer
- Should prostitution/the sex trade be legalized? Why? If you believe it should be legalized, should all the forms of prostitution described in your text be legalized, or only a select few? If prostitution/the sex trade were legalized should government be able to exercise some control over it? How...what would that look like?
For the sex trade question "Should we legalize prostitution"? Think about the two opposing views:
- Sexual Equality View - The sex trade worker is a victim of male dominance. In patriarchal societies, male power is predicated on female subjugation, and prostitution is a clear example of this gender exploitation
- Free Choice View - The sex trade, if freely chosen, expresses woman’s equality and is not a symptom of subjugation.
A Block Legal Studies - Today we'll talk about: firearms (the Firearms Act along with non-restricted, restricted and prohibited weapons); prostitution/the sex trade which includes Obtaining sexual services for consideration CC286.1(1) and Procuring 286.3(1); and obscenity which includes Obscene materials CC163(1) along with Making child pornography 163.1(2) Distribution, etc. of child pornography 163.1(3) Possession of child pornography 163.1(4) or Accessing child pornography 163.1(4.1)
What is obscene? We'll look at the legal definition of "obscenity".
If there's time, for a different case of obscenity we'll look at "Sniffy the Rat" and artist Rick Gibson. To either giggle or be horrified check out the CBC story here. Is it Really Art or is it Obscene? Philosophy Talk "Art and Obscenity"
Lastly I'll have you work on questions:
It is important to note: The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the country's anti-prostitution laws in a unanimous decision, and gave Parliament one year to come up with new legislation. In striking down laws prohibiting brothels, living on the avails of prostitution and communicating in public with clients, the top court ruled that the laws were over-broad and "grossly disproportionate." The government replaced the law with Bill C-36 (2014) which received Royal Assent and became law on December 6, 2014.
Purchasing sexual services and communicating in any place for that purpose is now a criminal offence for the first time in Canadian criminal law (a person convicted of this new offence may be sentenced to up to 5 years imprisonment if prosecuted on indictment, and 18 months if prosecuted by summary conviction). The new prostitution laws do not criminalize the sale of sexual services. the new law protects from criminal liability people who receive money from the sale of their own sexual services.
These laws are being challenged once again in the Supreme Court of Canada. To find out more check out more on the escort agency challenge here or the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform challenge here and an October 2022 challenge in Ontario Superior Court here.
s. 163 (8) For the purposes of this Act, any publication a dominant characteristic of which is the undue exploitation of sex, or of sex and any one or more of the following subjects, namely, crime, horror, cruelty and violence, shall be deemed to be obscene.
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 163; 1993, c. 46, s. 1; 2018, c. 29, s. 11.
The Criminal Code section 163 subsection 3 (Defence of public good) states that No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section if the public good was served by the acts that are alleged to constitute the offence and if the acts alleged did not extend beyond what served the public good.
So what are the community standards of tolerance that determine a "public good"?
Immoral acts are distinguished from crimes on the basis of the social harm they cause. Acts that are believed to be extremely harmful to the general public are usually outlawed, whereas acts that only the harm the actor themselves are more likely to be tolerated. Acts that are illegal because they are viewed as a threat to morality are called public order crimes.
If there's time, for a different case of obscenity we'll look at "Sniffy the Rat" and artist Rick Gibson. To either giggle or be horrified check out the CBC story here. Is it Really Art or is it Obscene? Philosophy Talk "Art and Obscenity"
Lastly I'll have you work on questions:
- questions 2-3-4 on page 257 of the All About Law text (yesterday)
- questions 1, 2, & 3 on page 240 of the All About Law text along with
- questions 1 & 2 from page 244 of the All About Law text.
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