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Al Beeber Leave It To Beeber Well, that’s a wrap. After a newspaper career that started on May 5, 1980 when I was 20 years old, I’m moving on to new challenges and adventures. After being elected to Lethbridge city council this week, I end my decades-long career in newspapers with this column. When I [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It was the best last-minute ticket purchase that Mitch Ankermann has ever made.  Ankermann, who lives in Lethbridge, was in attendance for decisive Game 7 of the American League Championship Series at the Rogers Centre in Toronto on Monday. Ankermann was in the Toronto area to visit [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Seven Lethbridge Police Service officers have been recognized by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for their efforts in detecting and removing impaired drivers from Southern Alberta roads. Anita Huchala, President of MADD Lethbridge and Area Chapter,  presented the officers with Cpl. Cumming’s Watch awards on Wednesday. Established in 2015, the Cpl. Cumming’s [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Alberta government has announced new reforms for Albertans to receive preventative screening and elective testing to help patients take charge of their health concerns. Adriana LeGrange, minister of Primary and Preventative Health, says early detection was the sole reason her own eye cancer was able to [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Alberta’s New Democrat Caucus held 10 town halls this summer, knocked on countless doors, and attended numerous community events and festivals.  Lethbridge-West MLA Rob Miyashiro said he heard from Albertans over the summer that affordability is a key concern.  “We found that the UCP priorities are not the same as what [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Like exhausted parents, Canada’s business community seems to be increasingly tuning out the temper tantrums coming from downstairs. On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was halting trade talks with Canada over an anti-tariff ad campaign run by the Ontario government. “Canada cheated and got caught!!!” Trump wrote in all caps on [...] Read More »

Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching Canada as a reliable partner for Southeast Asia, one that’s committed to rules-based trade at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is rewriting global trade norms. He’s heading to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, known as ASEAN, seeking to drum up investment into Canada that will [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Experts in artificial intelligence say it’s risky for the Canada Revenue Agency to turn to artificial intelligence to help Canadians with their tax problems when human call centre employees have shown to struggle providing accurate information. On Tuesday, federal auditor general Karen Hogan issued a damning report which found not only was the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada’s first-ever defence industrial strategy will be released sometime after the Nov. 4 federal budget but will be made public no later than Christmas, Defence Minister David McGuinty said Friday. McGuinty said the document will map out Canada’s needs and sovereign capabilities and identify domestic defence sectors that have a comparative commercial advantage. [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Ontario will pause its anti-tariff television ad campaign in the United States on Monday so that Canada-U.S. trade talks can resume, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Friday. Ford said he decided to pull the plug on the campaign only after speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is travelling to Asia for back-to-back [...] Read More »