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Christenson Bailey started making plans to leave the park in 2019, trying to re-establish some mainstream aspects of life, such as getting proper identification.
The young whale ventured into the lagoon off northwest Vancouver Island with her mother last month. She has been swimming around in the waters by herself ever since.
Christenson Bailey could go weeks in Stanley Park without speaking to another person. He spent his time meditating, studying the forest, and making art.
Short-term rental hosts will need to have a valid business licence number on display where local governments require a licence, the province said in a release.
“And Emerson has kind of grown attached to people. And now two years later, he’s weighing over 500 pounds and he’s really taken a liking to Victoria.”
Christenson Bailey has lived in Vancouver’s Stanley Park for the last three decades. He first visited the city in 1981 on a hitchhiking trip.
The report stated that when medications were covered, B.C. allocated only $257 dollars per person, compared to the Canadian average of $442.
There is more controversy surrounding the B.C. government’s drug decriminalization pilot program after comments from two of the most senior police officers in the province.