Also: The cost of cleaning up Alberta’s oil wells could reach $70-billion
Ottawa is promising to crack down on immigration consultants exploiting foreign workersto investigate and punish labour-trafficking offenders. “There is no question more needs to be done to protect vulnerable newcomers,” Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said, though he did not give specific details and stopped short of ending self-regulation in the recruitment industry.
This is the daily Morning Update newsletter. If you’re reading this on the web, or it was forwarded to you from someone else, you can sign up for Morning Update and more than 20 more Globe newsletters on ourThe social media giant has banned several Canadian far-right commentators promoting white nationalist views, including former Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy. Facebook also banned extremist groups including the Canadian Nationalist Front and Soldiers of Odin .
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said the bans were a good first step but “there is more to be done." Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould said the federal government a British proposal that would give lawmakers the power to issue fines, shut down websites and make executives of social media firms liable for dangerous content on their platforms.
The Alberta Liabilities Disclosure Project says Alberta’s regulator has consistently underestimated the risks; the regulator has yet to study the report and hasn’t changed its estimates.
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