All the criminal code gives for sexual assault is:

S271 Sexual Assault

S272 Sexual assault with a weapon, threats to a third party or causing bodily harm

S273 Aggravated sexual assault (sexual assault + wounding, maiming, disfigurement or endangering a life)

So for the vast majority of cases there is just the catch-all "Sexual Assault", defined for example, by the Edmonton Police Department website as:

"Sexual Assault is defined as an assault of a sexual nature that violates the sexual integrity of the victim. "

So another catch-all phrase "sexual integrity". A kiss? Patting a butt? Rape? It's all covered by one thing that doesn't even seem to be defined in the criminal code...

Whose interest is served by confusing rape with a kiss?
Maybe I missed it but where in the thousands of words of articles the Globe has published in the last few days, do they explain this?
900 pats + 80 kisses + 20 rapes, but the media just says 1,000 sexual assaults and readers just see "1,000 rapes!!"