Cabinet cut by 23 percent the number of migrant workers allowed into the country last year, new data show. The decline followed a 2014 crackdown amid complaints of employers’ use of the Temporary Foreign Worker program: “There has been a steady decrease”.

Provinces are doing a mediocre job on flood preparedness, says a University of Waterloo report. The new data follow a warning from the Department of Natural Resources that historic weather records are insufficient in anticipating climate change disasters: “We have nobody in charge”.