Andrea Pardo Rodriguez, Nelson Martinez Mora and their daughters were jolted awake Sunday morning by loud banging at their Hamilton apartment's front door. The parents were arrested and brought to an immigration detention centre, and now face deportation to Colombia in the coming days.
The federal government is making changes to two of its biggest housing programs in the hope the move will speed up the construction and repair of badly needed affordable rental units.
The federal government's enormous bet on new construction is unlikely to have much of an effect on soaring home prices, some economists and housing experts are warning.