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Human Trafficking

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Tracking incomes in Nova Scotia

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In the 2011 National Household Survey collected data on everything from how much people earned to where they came from. The following is Nova Scotia municipal census tracts in Nova Scotia mapped out according to the median household income in 2010. The darker the colour, the more households made. The range is between $20,000 to $60,000.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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Ottawa was the hot spot for human trafficking in 2014

(Click on the city in the “Rates” section to see the corresponding values in the “Violations” section, which is a count of violations for each jurisdiction ranging from Canada as a whole to provinces to a select group of cities.)

Source: Statistics Canada

An American report identified Canada as one of the top destinations for human trafficking, and recommended several ways Canada should combat the problem.



To find out more about human trafficking, the RCMP has an excellent question-and-answer section on its webpage:

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ht-tp/q-a-trafficking-traite-eng.htm

To read the story upon which this assignment is based, please read this Globe and Mail article.