Online sex ads reveal routes used to traffic Indigenous women and girls across Canada

IN DEPTH The new highways of tears How human traffickers are establishing corridors to move Indigenous victims between Canadian cities TEMUR DURRANI WINNIPEG THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO SHANNON VANRAES/THE GLOBE AND MAIL SHARE SAVE FOR LATER Human traffickers are exploiting the country’s highways and airports, establishing corridors to move victims between major Canadian cities, shows new research on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Researchers mapped these routes by examining thousands of sex advertisements posted online over the past decade. The analysts ident…