The Trans Mountain Boondoggle: Taxpayers Lose Billions, Oil Companies Win | The Tyee: You know the one. The pipeline with big expansion plans that were
supposed to cost $7.4 billion? But once you bought it, the costs soared
to $21.4 billion and counting?

Ring a bell yet?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, of course,
promised it would make huge profits and that Canadians would all get
rich and fight climate change at the same time by shipping bitumen to
China.

That’s right, you got it — the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Anyway, you own the sucker,
lock, stock and barrel, with the federal government paying $4.5 billion
to Kinder Morgan for the privilege.

Have I got news for you — and it’s not
great news. So sit down and grab a drink, which Health Canada says is
not good for you either. Just saying.  

Russia one of the ‘biggest threats’ to world economy amid recession fears: Freeland – National | Globalnews.ca: Russia’s war in Ukraine is proving to be “one of the biggest threats” to the world economy at the moment, according to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Freeland, who also serves as Canada’s finance minister, made the
comments to reporters in Washington, D.C., on Friday following the
annual meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund
(IMF), which put out a stark world economic outlook earlier this week.

“One
of the biggest threats, not only to the lives of Ukrainians right now,
not only to the sanctity of the international rules-based order, but
also to the world economy today is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,”
Freeland said.

“There’s one simple thing that could happen that
would make the global economy much more secure, and that is for Russia
to get out of Ukraine.”

Ontario mom thankful her daughter is on a ‘life-changing’ cystic fibrosis drug. Access not so easy for others | CBC News:

CF is a hereditary
disease that affects the cells that produce mucus, and can lead to a
buildup in the lungs, digestive tract and other organs. It can make the
body prone to lung infections and often, lung transplants are required.

In July,
Ontario made Trikafta available to children six years old and up. The
triple combination therapy works to correct the defect of the gene
that causes CF.

According to Cystic Fibrosis Canada, an estimated
one in every 3,600 children born in this country has CF. More than 4,300
children, adolescents, and adults with cystic fibrosis attend
specialized CF clinics, according to the non-profit organization.

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.