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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Canada’s Premier Food Corridor (CPFC), in a continuing effort of expanding their reach and working collaboratively with other municipalities focused on the agri-food sector, is hosting a delegation from Invest Quebec over the couple of days.  The CPFC is a collaborative network of economic development professionals and municipalities committed to [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman  Lethbridge Herald CURA Climate Inc. a Canadian climate‑tech company developing electrochemical solutions to decarbonize cement production, announced a partnership with Grand Forks Concrete Ltd.  The partnership includes a formal agreement to jointly deploy both a pilot‑scale demonstration plant and a first‑of‑kind commercial facility to convert agricultural spent lime into low‑carbon cement and [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Sport Council (LSC) will be hosting a Give-it-a-Try diving event at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the university aquatic centre, for adults to try a new sport in a low commitment, low pressure environment at no cost. This event is in partnership with the Lethbridge Diving Club [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Every March 17, a strange transformation happens across Canada. Otherwise sensible adults put on novelty shamrock glasses, beer turns suspiciously green, and people with names like “Dave from Red Deer” suddenly insist they are one-sixteenth Irish on their mother’s cousin’s side. Welcome to St. Patrick’s Day — the one [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Polytechnic will be offering a new Pre-Veterinary Medicine diploma beginning in the fall and will allow graduates to transfer to the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Kevin Smith, dean for the Centre for Business Arts and Sciences, says the Polytechnic is delighted to offer [...] Read More »

SWIFT CURRENT — The leader of a cult that bedevilled residents of a Saskatchewan village for two years is no longer facing charges. Romana Didulo, head of the so-called Kingdom of Canada, had been charged with two offences but a court official in Swift Current said they were stayed Tuesday by Crown prosecutors. Didulo, who [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Most Canadians want the government to ban or regulate the use of algorithms to set prices, a new poll suggests. Abacus Data polled 1,931 Canadians about algorithmic pricing, which it defined as prices adjusted in real time based on such factors as who is buying it, the time of day and browsing behaviour. [...] Read More »

Police say a 14-year-old in Manitoba and a 15-year-old in Nova Scotia are facing charges after allegedly plotting simultaneous attacks at their rural schools. They say officers received information Friday from Interpol and the FBI that two teens had been talking online about their desire to attack the schools in Rivers, Man., and Bridgewater, N.S. [...] Read More »

A Canadian computer scientist is one of this year’s recipients of a prestigious award nicknamed the Nobel Prize of computing. Université de Montréal professor Gilles Brassard has won the A.M. Turing Prize with IBM Research scientist Charles H. Bennett. The men nabbed the award because they created impenetrable encryption technology in the mid-1980s that laid [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government is pouring $1.4 billion into the munitions industry to build up the domestic supply of heavy artillery shells and reduce Canada’s reliance on foreign suppliers. Ottawa will put public funds toward new facilities in Ingersoll, Ont., and Repentigny, Que., for producing components used to make heavy artillery shells. The funding [...] Read More »