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Colorado leaders recently got the green light from federal regulators for a bold plan: They want to lower the cost of prescription drugs in the state — by importing them from Canada, where the prices are far cheaper. A look at how the project could lower the cost of what’s in your medicine cabinet, and what its odds of success might be.

The list includes drugs for diabetes, HIV, prostate cancer, Leukemia, cystic fibrosis, and inflammatory conditions, among other things.

The money is equal to about $31 billion and is also intended to reform Canada's child welfare system.

Last Monday, Colorado Edition host Erin O’Toole started getting a flood of new Twitter mentions and follows. She soon realized all those messages were not exactly meant for her. A quick search of the news revealed there is another Erin O'Toole, north of the border, who was just elected leader of the Conservative Party in Canada. The two had a chance to meet via Skype to discuss their unlikely connection.

On Sunday night, Canada's Conservative Party chose Erin O'Toole as their leader in the upcoming election for prime minister of Canada. Many Canadians took to Twitter and accidentally found not the Erin O'Toole north of the border, but KUNC's very own Erin O'Toole, co-host of Colorado Edition. We sit down for a virtual Q&A to give the rest of the world a glimpse into the life of a public radio host in Colorado.

This story is part of a collaboration between the Mountain West News Bureau and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Read about how a U.S. border town...

This is part of a collaboration between the Mountain West News Bureau and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation looking at how U.S.-Canada border towns...

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