Californian resident Nik Dimou has been waiting nearly a month for his father's body, after he died of a heart attack on a flight, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Winnipeg. Dimou flew back to California, confident his dad's body would soon follow. "My family and I feel very hurt," Dimou said Thursday from Costa Mesa, about 70 km southeast of Los Angeles, where his father lived with him. Dimou's father's body can't leave the country without a registered death certificate and approval from Manitoba's communicable disease control office, Vogiatzakis said. "That's a real black eye on this province, where we could have handled it totally different and we could have had this family satisfied even though they lost their father," Vogiatzakis said.

Source: CBC News July 22, 2022 08:13 UTC