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🍁 𝐋𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 🍁👏This keeps more gently used clothing out of landfills! ♻️Lululemon is brin...
09/16/2026

🍁 𝐋𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 🍁👏
This keeps more gently used clothing out of landfills! ♻️

Lululemon is bringing its Like New resale program to Canada. The Calgary facility will process and resell pre-owned gear.

Canadians looking to save on Lululemon gear have a new second-hand option, as the athletic apparel giant expands its resale program north of the border.

The Vancouver-based company announced on Monday that it is partnering with Tersus Solutions to bring the Like New resale platform to Canada, with a 25,000-square-foot processing facility in Calgary that has already employed 18 people.

Tersus Solutions is a Denver-based cleaning technology and logistics company that works with established brands to recirculate clothing and gear back into consumers' hands, providing both cleaning and repair services.

“We're in the business of keeping used textiles in use longer,” said Peter Whitcomb, CEO of Tersus Solutions.

Whitcomb said the Calgary location will be Lululemon's Canadian processing hub for its resale platform, handling all items bought in Canada.

That includes not only cleaning and repairing items, but assessing condition, digitizing items for the online store, packing orders and shipping the items out to consumers.

What makes Tersus Solutions unique is its use of liquid CO2 instead of traditional cleaning methods, which requires no water or harsh chemical detergents.

Lululemon's Like New program was launched in 2021 in the U.S., creating an online portal for customers to be in control of selling their used clothing on a protected platform. Lululemon's FAQ page says consumers can get 70 per cent of the sale price in cash or 90 per cent in store credit.

Source: Vancouver Sun 22 August 2026

𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ⛏️A Toronto-based mining company is suing the province after losing its mining rights on Banks I...
09/14/2026

𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ⛏️

A Toronto-based mining company is suing the province after losing its mining rights on Banks Island regarding a government agreement involving the Gitxaała Nation. The company says it invested millions in the project and is seeking compensation for its losses.

The company says it was stripped of its min­ing rights on an island off the north­west coast as part of a deal with the Gitxaała Nation.

In a law­suit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, MCC Cana­dian Gold Ven­tures Inc. says it was asked to res­cue a small gold mine on Banks Island, 110 kilo­metres south of Prince Rupert.

But then the B.C. gov­ern­ment stripped its min­ing rights, the com­pany says in its fil­ing.

The com­pany says it inves­ted mil­lions in the min­ing prop­er­ty — includ­ing clean­ing up the pre­vi­ous owner's envir­on­men­tal mess — and now can­not move ahead on the project.

MCC Cana­dian Gold Ven­tures is seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion for the mar­ket val­ue of its min­ing leas­es, loss of invest­ment, busi­ness loss­es, loss of good­will, and costs and expens­es.

The province has not filed a response in court.

Dur­ing the prob­lems at the mine a dec­ade ago, the Gitxaała First Nation made it clear to the province they did not want the mine on Banks Island.

In 2021, the Gitxaała launched a court chal­lenge of the province's free-entry min­er­al claims sys­tem, say­ing it vio­lat­ed the Unit­ed Nations Dec­la­ra­tion of the Rights of Indi­gen­ous Peo­ples.

A court rul­ing in 2023 found the sys­tem didn't meet the province's duty to con­sult with First Nations. In Decem­ber 2025, the court ruled that UNDRIP is legal­ly enforce­able.

In 2024, the province announced new, inter­im restric­tions on min­er­al claim reg­is­tra­tions and min­ing activ­i­ties in the Gitxaała and Ehattesaht First Nations ter­ri­to­ries.

A five-year morator­ium restricts exist­ing ten­ure and per­mit hold­ers from engag­ing in min­ing activ­i­ties, with excep­tions allowed only for recla­ma­tion, mon­i­tor­ing, pro­tec­tion, con­trol, or treat­ment efforts.

Although this matter is currently before the courts, if anyone can weigh in to better explain how we came to this point, our readers would appreciate it.

Source: Vancouver Sun 20 June 2026

BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council MABC - Mining Association of British Columbia Resource Works Young Canadians for Resources Indigenous Resource Network

🍁 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚’𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭 🧑‍🚀 Will Blast Off in Mid-September!Canadian astronaut Colonel Josh Kutryk is preparing to hea...
09/12/2026

🍁 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚’𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭 🧑‍🚀 Will Blast Off in Mid-September!

Canadian astronaut Colonel Josh Kutryk is preparing to head to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission. He’ll spend six months in orbit conducting scientific research and testing new technologies.

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“It feels really good,” said Kutryk on his selection for the mission. “I'm very excited about it. I've been training for this exact mission for about four years now so there is a lot of excitement to go out and do it.

The Fort Saskatchewan, Sask., born astronaut is scheduled to launch for the ISS in September on a Falcon 9 rocket inside the Crew Dragon capsule. The launch will take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kutryk, along with a crew of three other astronauts, will dock with the ISS and spend a total of six months in Earth's orbit.

The objectives of the Crew-13 mission are twofold. First, the crew will be responsible for the operation and technical maintenance of the ISS. The second part of the job, and the main reason for the ISS's operation, is to conduct scientific experiments and test new technologies.

“The space station is an orbiting laboratory where hundreds of experiments are running everyday from researchers in Canada, and from all over the world,” explained Kutryk.

Kutryk says that while he is excited for all the work, he is looking forward to working on a Canadian technology called MicroPREP.

“MicroPREP is essentially trying to develop a device that is the size of your fist, where we can put a single drop of blood into it and get a whole bunch of diagnostic information from,” said Kutryk.

When Kutryk and his crew reach the ISS, they will be contending with a variety of day-to-day challenges. Astronauts in space must adapt their everyday routines like eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene to contend with the lack of gravity.

“My greatest excitement is for the simplest thing, and that is just looking out the window and seeing Earth for the first time as a blue ball hanging in space,” he explained.

As part of his career as an astro­naut, Kutryk has spent a good amount of time speak­ing with kids about space. He passes on his exper­i­ence, teaches them about space, and he encour­ages those who hope to travel to the stars to chase their dreams.

Source: Vancouver Sun 24 August 2026

Canadian Space Agency

👩 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 💪 Two lifelong friends, Capt. Hailey McIntyre (middle) and deckhand Ocean Rutherford (rig...
09/10/2026

👩 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 💪

Two lifelong friends, Capt. Hailey McIntyre (middle) and deckhand Ocean Rutherford (right), made history as what’s believed to be B.C.’s first all-women tugboat crew, completing a winter voyage from Prince Rupert to Stewart aboard SAAM Towage’s Apache. 🛥️

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"Two women who have known each other since elementary school made up what is believed to be B.C.’s first all-women tugboat crew on a trip from Prince Rupert to Stewart a few days before Christmas.

Capt. Hailey McIntyre said she expected the trip to feel normal — that is, moments of “sheer boredom and great excitement” — but was surprised by her own emotions. “I just felt very happy, very proud,” she said Friday.

The three-day trip began Dec. 16 when McIntyre, 30, and deckhand Ocean Rutherford, 32, left Prince Rupert aboard SAAM Towage’s Apache. They arrived in Stewart, near the Alaska border, 12 hours later. After a night at a hotel, the ship arrived and the tugboats assisted with docking.

After loading, the tug followed the ship out and arrived back in Prince Rupert around midnight.
McIntyre and Rutherford are believed to be the first all-women tugboat crew in B.C., as well as the first in SAAM Towage’s 70-year history.

But the journey to Stewart was just a small part of a longer journey for McIntyre, who knew from a young age that she wanted to work on the water. “It’s in my blood,” she said. “I grew up hearing the stories of my family.” Born and raised in Prince Rupert, with family members on both sides who worked in commercial fishing including her great-grandmother, she joined the sea cadets program as a teen, worked as a sailing instructor and volunteered for search and rescue."

🔗 Vancouver Sun Dec. 29, 2023 'Sea change': All-women tugboat crew makes historic Christmas run up B.C. coast

SAAM Towage Canada Inc. Canada Powered by Women

🗓️ Mark your calendars...for Sept. 14 -18. 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐔𝐁𝐂𝐌 Has Some 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ✨Municipal leaders are raising concer...
09/09/2026

🗓️ Mark your calendars...for Sept. 14 -18.
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐔𝐁𝐂𝐌 Has Some 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: ✨

Municipal leaders are raising concerns at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention about data center energy usage & reactivating the provincial bear smart program as communities push for greater provincial support and regulation.

𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐀 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐒 ⚡

The Kootenay Boundary Regional District is calling on the province and the B.C. Utilities Commission to regulate the design and operation of new and existing data centres.

The district says the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving demand for data centres, which consume large amounts of energy and require vast amounts of water for cooling.

It is proposing regulations to “minimize and control data centre energy and water consumption.”

𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌 🐻

Port Moody is asking the provincial government to reactivate the Bear Smart community program, saying applications stopped being processed in late 2025.

The city points to at least three bear-human interactions in Metro Vancouver this August that resulted in human injuries and bears being killed.

Port Moody is calling for the reinstatement of staff and funding to expand and administer the program.

Source: Vancouver Sun 26 August 2026

Union of BC Municipalities Resource Works Young Canadians for Resources BC Wildlife Federation

09/07/2026

🌟 Happy Labour Day! 🎉 Time to recognize the hard work and dedication of all workers who contribute to our communities. 🌼✨ Take a moment to relax & recharge – you’ve earned it! Here’s to all of those who work, past and present. Don't forget the retirees! 💪

‼️𝐁𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞‼️🐻Saskatchewan is seeing renewed concern over black bear encounters following three fatal attacks in jus...
09/05/2026

‼️𝐁𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞‼️🐻

Saskatchewan is seeing renewed concern over black bear encounters following three fatal attacks in just three months. While attacks remain rare, experts are urging residents to stay bear-aware, prevent attractants, and know how to respond when encounters occur.

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"Tra­gic­ally, as a spate of fatal bear attacks in north­ern Saskat­chewan indic­ate, everything you've got is not always enough.

On May 8, Hrishikesh Koloth, 27, was killed by a black bear while work­ing at a uranium site 85 kilo­metres north­east of Points North Land­ing, in the province's extreme north. Koloth was an ama­teur mixed mar­tial artist whom his brother called a war­rior in a CBC inter­view.

On July 15 and 16, the bod­ies of retired Regina couple Jay and Deb Mac­Don­ald, both in their early 70s, were found near their cabin at McTav­ish Lake, approx­im­ately 90 kilo­metres north of La Ronge. The Min­istry of Com­munity Safety con­firmed that a bear was involved in their deaths, though details of their final moments have yet to emerge. Those three fatal­it­ies from May to July equal half of Saskat­chewan's six bear-related human deaths on record.

“There's a num­ber of things that can impact bear beha­viour ... whether that be envir­on­mental factors or human factors,” noted O'Hara. One human factor, she emphas­ized, is improp­erly stored or cleaned food.

Nat­ural factors for bear encoun­ters con­cern cubs and ter­rit­ory. “(The) major­ity of encoun­ters with black bears are defens­ive in nature. So it's typ­ic­ally hap­pen­ing when you're com­ing between a bear and either it's pro­tect­ing its ter­rit­ory or a resource or its cubs,” O'Hara said.

But such encoun­ters don't usu­ally res­ult in bear aggres­sion. It's the “extremely rare” pred­at­ory encoun­ters that do. “If you're just encoun­ter­ing a bear, stay calm, don't run,” advised O'Hara, who has yet to have a close call with the spe­cies she over­sees pro­vin­cially. “(The) best thing you can do is sort of calmly back away slowly, make a wide detour, speak in a firm, deep voice, and don't make dir­ect eye con­tact with the bear.”

Source: Vancouver Sun July 28, 2026

BC Wildlife Federation WildSafeBC

09/04/2026

𝗙𝗘𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗫𝗘𝗦 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖 𝗩𝗘𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 🚗 🔌
💰 Says they're "costly" & "impractical".

Canada is set to permanently repeal electric vehicle mandates, a move projected to save Canadians $57.6 billion by 2050 or $2.3B annually. The government cites high costs and industry challenges as reasons for ending the policy, which required a growing share of new car sales to be electric. While the mandate aimed to boost health and environmental benefits, officials now warn it could threaten jobs and the auto sector’s stability.

Cabinet had mandated that electric vehicles account for a minimum 20% of new sales in 2026, rising to 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035.

Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly suspended the mandate last February 5.

The Opposition Conservatives had sponsored a 2025 Commons motion to repeal the mandate. Liberals including the Prime Minister opposed the motion on a 194 to 141 vote.

Minister Dabrusin’s department on Saturday dismissed the mandate as costly and impractical. “These requirements known as the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard would place financial pressure on automakers as they navigate evolving market and trade conditions in the North American market that could make compliance challenging,” said the Impact Analysis Statement.

“Maintaining zero emission vehicle requirements when the capacity of the Canadian auto sector to adjust is compromised by the economic challenges it now faces could also lead to contractions in sectoral gross domestic product and employment,” said the Analysis Statement. “Any reduction in the risk of job losses in the Canadian auto sector needs to be considered.”

What do you think: Practical, Progressive, Popular or ? 🤔

Blacklocks Reporter, Aug. 17/26

𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧 🔥She is the third woman in two weeks accused of lighting ...
09/03/2026

𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐧 🔥
She is the third woman in two weeks accused of lighting fires in the BC Interior.

Mariah Banning Baer, of West Kelowna, has been arrested and charged in connection with two grass fires in Vernon’s Commonage earlier this month.

On Tuesday, Aug. 4, officers from the Vernon North Okanagan responded to a grass fire on Commonage Road near Bench Row Road. A short time later, a second fire was discovered in Carlson Park on Bench Row Road.

Investigators believed the fires were human caused and intentionally set.

On Friday, Aug. 14, a suspect was arrested and charged with several Criminal Code offences relating to both fires.

Baer, 33, has been charged with arson in relation to inhabited property, two counts of arson in relation to property, possession of incendiary material, disguising face with intent to commit an indictable offence, and breach of a probation order.

🔗 Vernon News (CASTANET) _ Aug 19, 2026

City of West Kelowna FireSmart BC

‼️𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 🐻As the bear population grows, more bears are entering villages and urban area...
09/01/2026

‼️𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 🐻

As the bear population grows, more bears are entering villages and urban areas looking for food. Residents report property damage, crop losses, livestock attacks, and encounters near schools and public spaces. The situation has created tension between local residents and wildlife conservation groups.

In British Columbia, the grizzly bear hunt was banned except for Indigenous purposes. Black bear bunts are not completely banned but strictly regulated. Do bans play a role in the link between bear population growth and human-bear interaction? The BC Wildlife Federation is reporting a rise in dangerous incidents with grizzly bears especially as well as loss of livestock. https://bcwf.bc.ca/grizzly-conflicts-member-stories/

What do you think?

More details from Greece: 👇
"Liv­ing in a moun­tain vil­lage in north­ern Greece, retired fur­rier Dimitris Des­pas is no stranger to brown bear encoun­ters — the latest one in his garden just weeks ago.

“The bears have sur­roun­ded us. They come into the house yards, cause dam­age, eat the fruit off the trees,” the 65-yearold told AFP at his home in Klei­soura, just east of the city of Kastoria.

The pop­u­la­tion of brown bears in Greece's moun­tain­ous West­ern Mace­do­nia region has grown stead­ily in past dec­ades due to hunt­ing bans and other con­ser­va­tion efforts.

The 900 bears coun­ted in a 2025 sur­vey by Greek author­it­ies was almost twice the fig­ure of the pre­vi­ous sur­vey six years ago.

There have been increas­ing com­plaints from farm­ers about dam­aged crops and res­id­ents over bear incur­sions into inhab­ited areas, spark­ing angry social media exchanges with those who defend the anim­als' pro­tec­ted status.

The show­down became rad­ical in June when three bears were found dead in two days West­ern Mace­do­nia, accord­ing to the lead­ing wild­life groups Arc­turos and Kal­listo. One was a recently rewil­ded young female.

Two had gun­shot wounds, while the third — named Circe when she was res­cued and nur­tured for a year by Arc­turos — appar­ently ate poisoned bait, the organ­iz­a­tion said.

Iason Ban­tios, spokes­per­son for the Cal­listo wild­life group, said animal dam­age to crops and live­stock “is a long-stand­ing issue.”

“We under­stand the con­cerns of res­id­ents in affected areas, but what we tell them is that, with proper inform­a­tion and pre­vent­ive and deterrent meas­ures, the phe­nomenon of bears approach­ing inhab­ited areas can be drastic­ally reduced,” he said."

Source: Vancouver Sun July 13, 2026

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