On a cloudy day last spring, I found myself in the dining room of a home in North Bay. After a long drive from Toronto, I watched a deer stroll out from behind the trees in the backyard, and trot through the melting snow around Lees Creek – a quiet current that leads to the waterfront of the small Ontario city nicknamed “the gateway to the north.”| Investigative Journalism Bureau
A silver Toyota minivan pulls into a bank parking lot in Toronto’s west end. Two young Punjabi men step out and start looking around for their client, a woman they’ve been communicating with over the previous days through texts and calls. She has agreed to pay them $4,000 to be smuggled south across the border […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau