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Sunday marked National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Saskatoon’s hospitality industry is working hard to protect those who may be exploited, with some help from Paul Brandt.

A a foreign worker was coerced into working excessive hours and threatened at a Nova Scotia business, according to RCMP. 

Calls to the Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline hit more than 5,900 calls nationwide in 2025, a 14 per cent increase from 5,100 calls in 2024, the organization said.

Police in Ontario said on Saturday that three girls from Quebec have been found in Richmond Hill. Two males, aged 23 and 17, from the GTA now face human trafficking charges.

RCMP have charged a 46-year-old Brooks man with a number of offences involving allegations of human trafficking and believe there may be other victims.

The Nova Scotia government in December ordered police to crack down on illegal cannabis, with the premier saying the unregulated drug poses a serious public health risk.

Calgary police have arrested a 22-year-old man from Quebec who has a history of being involved in human trafficking on a half dozen new charges.

The Maritime provinces and Ontario saw their rates of reported human trafficking incidents surpass the national average, with Nova Scotia seeing the highest per 100,000 people.

Nova Scotia's justice minister says government is 'strengthening' the Cannabis Control Act as the province continues to crackdown on illegal dispensaries. 

An RCMP manager in Nova Scotia says he takes issue with officers being called white supremacists and Nazis during a recent police raid of an Indigenous-run cannabis dispensary.

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Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which has earned a reputation for brutal violence while consolidating its power.

A Mi’kmaq man alleges he was unlawfully detained by Nova Scotia RCMP for 23 hours after a cannabis raid on his trading post.

The minister said today his department conducts "routine intelligence" to track dispensaries, but declined to give details.

Lethbridge police say one of the girls was confined and repeatedly sexually assaulted by multiple men over three days, during which she was also forced to do drugs.

A man accused of drugging and pimping a teenage girl was barely out of handcuffs when he was re-arrested Tuesday for breaching his conditions, Lethbridge police said.

Spanish prosecutors said they are investigating claims from two former employees who allege they were subjected 'to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation.'

Men from across the globe are being recruited to join the Russian military in exchange for cash bonuses and becoming free from imprisonment.

'They passed directly in our flight path.... They don’t have their transponder turned on. It’s outrageous,' the JetBlue pilot said in a conversation with air traffic control.

Six others aboard the Florida-based speedboat were wounded, Cuba's Interior Ministry said, adding the Cuban border patrol commander was also hurt when the U.S. boat opened fire.