VICTORIA — A new report into British Columbia's 2024 provincial election finds no evidence of foreign interference, but acknowledges a "broader culture of skepticism and conspiracy" with mis-information and speculation about voting manipulation "now the norm."

The report by researchers at the University of Toronto and Montreal's McGill University cites examples including spurious claims that severe rainfall and flooding on election day on Oct. 19 were due to deliberate manipulation of the weather.

The report by the British Columbia Information Ecosystem Project says the atmospheric river weather event was the "centrepiece of a voter suppression narrative" accusing the B.C. NDP of using cloud-seeding to suppress turnout for the Conservative Party of B.C., which narrowly lost the election.

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