1. Immigration nightmare: A mom is appealing to the federal government to help her bring her two-year-old daughter to B.C. The Stanfield family, living in South Africa, had planned to move to the Sunshine Coast but their two-year-old daughter’s immigration Visa was turned down as officials refuse to accept her birth certificate.
2. Look, don’t touch: A grey whale hanging out in English Bay may be cool to see but federal fisheries officials want Vancouverites to stop trying to get up in the whale’s baleen.
3. Heartbreaking coincidence: Port Moody residents displaced by an apartment complex fire earlier this week are picking up the pieces but the situation hits particularly hard for two residents. Tracy Boyd and Fran Hill lived at the same complex when it caught fire in 2001. Boyd lost all her possessions in both fires.
4. Wanted: cow poacher: It may sound like the plot of a Clint Eastwood or John Wayne film, but someone is shooting cattle in the north Okanagan and the owners of the cattle are offering a reward to catch the poachers.
5. Just chill: Several B.C. doctors are slamming what they believe is a too-rigid attitude when it comes to prescribing medical marijuana in Canada. In an commentary posted Friday, Dr. Julio Montaner said “patients’ needs should be considered above considerations” when it comes to getting pot that could help them.
