More of the usual. Fact checking failures and inaccurate reporting by the Toronto Star. (You have to meet LICO to sponsor both parents for your application to be successful. If you only have sufficient LICO for one parent, then you can't sponsor either.)
https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/03/09/toronto-mans-dream-of-bringing-parents-to-canada-dashed.html
"Then only 16, on his own, Harford found a job at a factory in Scarborough making window shades and eventually earned enough money to meet the income threshold set out by the federal government to sponsor one of his parents — his father — to Canada in 2009."
https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/03/09/toronto-mans-dream-of-bringing-parents-to-canada-dashed.html
"Then only 16, on his own, Harford found a job at a factory in Scarborough making window shades and eventually earned enough money to meet the income threshold set out by the federal government to sponsor one of his parents — his father — to Canada in 2009."