Police and immigration officials are in Calgary for a seminar on human trafficking, just days after Edmonton police laid what are believed to be the first such charges in Alberta.
On a tip, police, RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency last week removed three women, aged 21 to 41, from an Edmonton massage parlour and charged two women and a man with human trafficking and other offences.
The women came to Canada legally — one from Beijing and two from Fiji — after answering an ad in a newspaper that promised jobs in the massage industry. Once they arrived, their identification papers were taken from them, police said of the Edmonton case. Read full story…
Source: CBC
