As the federal government advises Canadians abroad think about returning to this country as soon as possible, some Okanagan residents have been able to get back while others have found themselves stranded.
Global News spoke with two valley residents who took off last week before Canada’s global advisory against non-essential travel was issued and struggled to get home.
Summerland resident Brandyn Steele was one of them. Steele and a relative had been planning their trip to Norway to visit a friend since last year, but it was quickly cut short by rapidly escalating measures to combat COVID-19. “We started to see very drastic and very quick changes being made by the government of Norway, putting in a lot of different closures to ferries, to