A Squamish Election Poisoned by Secret Attack Campaigns | The Tyee: The ads paste unflattering photographs of the councillors over text
or videos that hurl insults. Posts claim councillors — dubbed “Team
Karen” — are “reckless,” “self-interested” “flip flop politicians” who
“do not want your family to own a car.”

Many of the ads claim that councillors are in the pockets of developers without offering proof.

A number of ads published last October,
which cost upwards of $2,000, accused council of spending $220,000 of
municipal taxpayer’s money for three gazebos. In fact the money came from the province.  

Postcards making the same false claims were distributed to households across the region.

The district labelled those gazebo claims “misinformation” and released a statement correcting details within the ads.

‘Defending Saskatchewan’: Moe prepared to take legal actions over pollution laws: Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he’s prepared to take legal action over federal regulations on pollution.

Moe says Canadian environmental policies are causing economic harm to his province and creating hardship for farmers, natural resource workers and others.

Saskatchewan is on the cusp of further investment and opportunity, Moe added, and he doesn’t want to see that disrupted by Ottawa.

The province continues to experience a resource boom in potash, uranium and oil brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and global supply issues. In the first three months of the year, Saskatchewan made nearly $2 billion from potash and oil, enough for the province to balance its budget for the first time since 2014-15.

“All of the moves we are taking from here … are about Saskatchewan. And they’re about the opportunity we have in this province to grow and prosper, to attract investment and to ultimately reinvest back into our communities,” Moe said.

Under the Constitution, natural resources mainly fall under provincial jurisdiction, said Dwight Newman, a law professor at the University of Saskatchewan.

“The complication is the federal government has some jurisdiction that can overlap with that. And on some certain types of environmental legislation, that may end up affecting resources,” Newman said.

Thousands of salmon found dead in Canadian creek amid drought: Mountains of pink and chum salmon can be seen piled up along the creek bed in a video posted to Twitter on Oct. 4, near the community of Bella Bella close to Heiltsuk territory.

One team member
estimated that the total number of dead fish was around 65,000 and that
70 percent of the salmon died before being able to reproduce.  

During a normal summer, pink and chum salmon will travel from the
Pacific Ocean into more inland streams and estuaries to spawn. After the
fish release their eggs and milt, another word for salmon sperm, most
of the animals usually die from exhaustion.