B Block Criminology - We'll be in the class first with a Gallery Walk for our Gang Posters. You will be responsible for writing comments on a separate sheet of paper next to the posters. I'll explain the comment part to the Gallery Walk in class this morning. After half an hour we'll head to the library for our next online activity...
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 is another question for you to 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.
It is important to note:
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. Bill C-36 enacts new prostitution offences and modernizes old ones:
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
A Block Physical Geography - Today you have the block to finish your work on the Medicine Hat Topographic map. You need your Canadian Landscape topographic map book and the Medicine Hat map can be found on pages 40-42. You will need to work on questions 1 a, b and d, 2 a&b, 3 a-e, 4, 7 a-d and 8 (PLEASE NOTE...I've added questions 4 & 8 to your work). You can find topographic maps of Medicine Hat on Google Maps (Type in Medicine Hat Alberta on a Google search and click on maps at the top and then choose "Terrain" as an option). For other maps and information on Medicine Hat that will help you with some of the topographic map assignment questions check out Tourism Medicine Hat
From Tourism Medicine Hat...
Pinto McBean – the World’s Largest and Most Armed Pinto Bean – Bow Island’s answer to the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle (in Illinois, for you long-haul road-trippers). Pinto McBean celebrates the town’s role in Southern Alberta’s agriculture industry, which is a leader in beans and lentils. The fact that agriculture even exists here is a feat of human engineering thanks to an impressive canal system that delivers nearly a billion cubic metres of waters to farmers. Indeed, with the effort put forth to grow crops in this dry, sun-soaked land, the world’s largest pinto bean is an apt, wonderful mascot and a deserving point of pride ;)
The Seven Persons Creek watershed is 4,785.01 km2 in size and comprises 3.28% of the South Saskatchewan River Basin (146,100 km2). The watershed consists of a topography of slightly rolling grassy hills and deep coulees which is similar to other South Saskatchewan River Sub-Basin regional watersheds; land that was glacially scoured and subsequently shaped by huge volumes of meltwater which occasionally cut through the glacial debris to form long and narrow, now typically dry, flat-floored valleys. Seven Persons Creek is a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River, intersecting the City of Medicine Hat, providing off-stream storage for irrigation, and discharging to the South Saskatchewan River. On average, the Medicine Hat weather station receives 330 sunny days and 2,544 sunshine hours annually and receives 323 mm of precipitation per year making it a semi-arid climate.
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