Violinist tries to serenade B.C. orca calf to freedom, as others ready nets and boats
Carol Love watches the tides at a Vancouver Island lagoon, and when the time is right, she starts to play her violin.
She plays for an audience of one, a killer whale calf that has been trapped alone in the lagoon for almost a month.
Preparations for more conventional efforts to save the whale continue, involving a large fishing net.
But Love, from Nanaimo, B.C., stands and plays on a bridge at high tide, hoping her music entices the young orca to swim through a narrow channel, under the bridge and into the open ocean to freedom, no net required.
B.C. police probe whether arson attack on home of Ukrainian pastor was a hate crime
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress has called on police in Victoria to investigate an arson attack on the home of a religious leader as a hate crime.
Gasoline was poured through the mail slot of the family home of Father Yuriy Vyshnevskyy, pastor of the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, the congress said in a statement on Thursday.
Five people were in the home early Wednesday when the fire broke out.
All made it out alive, although one child was injured and a woman needed to be rescued from a window ledge by fire crews, said Victoria police.