Hunting cocaine traffickers + Rising housing costs
As remote Canadian communities reel from a lethal Colombian cocaine crisis, The National tracks efforts by Canada's navy to hunt down the traffickers. Plus, why construction experts say housing costs will rise until Ottawa revamps immigration policy.
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