In the clip, the mayor recalls the “old days on the farm” when people “threw (cats) in a bag and threw them in the river or they just put them on the exhaust pipes.” “I grew up on a farm. I know what happened back then, and there wasn’t emotion tied to it,” Katchur said.

The mayor of an Alberta city appeared to suggest that residents should use inhumane tactics to deal with feral cats.

It shows that Manitoba’s Wab Kinew is the country’s most popular premier with an approval rating of 66 per cent. After that, there is a three-way tie for second place. An equal 46 per cent of respondents say they approve of Danielle Smith (Alberta), Andrew Furey (Newfoundland and Labrador) and David Eby (B.C.).

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's plan to spend billions of dollars to fast-track school building across the province will come with a new program to fund private school construction.