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Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald With winter just around the corner, community members in need of help shoveling their snow in the towns of Coaldale and Coalhurst can receive assistance from the Snow Angels program.  The Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) is bringing back the Snow Angels program in Coaldale and Coalhurst after a successful [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald MyCityCare’s Shop of Wonders is ready to welcome parents in the community to “shop” for their children’s Christmas presents and they are asking for donations.  Tanya Lister, program co-ordinator, said this is their first year in their location and they were really excited to set up their Shop of Wonders.  “This [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Polytechnic Winter Fest is coming back for the second year, along with the Coca-Cola Holiday Caravan on its only stop in Lethbridge on Thursday.  On Nov. 27, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Trades, Technologies and Innovation Facility entrance on the south side of campus, those in attendance [...] Read More »

Southern Alberta Newspapers The province is ending its interim hybrid work policy starting in February. The Alberta government announced last month that employees of the Alberta Public Service will be required to return to a five day per week in-office schedule beginning Feb. 1. A statement from the Deputy Ministers’ Council in October stated that [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Caldwell family is ready to welcome members of the community tomorrow to their eight annual Christmas with the Caldwells kick-off party, to begin collecting toys for the Salvation Army Toys for Tots campaign and non-perishable food for the Lethbridge Food Bank.  Chandel and Vince Caldwell have been gathering support from [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Ottawa is not planning to set up an independent body to scrutinize the new capital framework in its budget, despite calls for more transparency from the government’s fiscal watchdog. Interim parliamentary budget officer Jason Jacques told MPs on the House of Commons finance committee Monday that he fears the changes made to the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal health minister is not committing to following the road map set out by an expert committee to launch a national pharmacare system. Marjorie Michel said her government is reviewing the recommendations it received early last month. “As you know, we have a lot of independent expert panels and they have their [...] Read More »

Residents of Bella Coola on British Columbia’s central coast say they’ve been grappling with a spike in encounters with grizzly bears in the remote community where a bear attacked a group of students and teachers last week. Resident Corey Van Andel has been living in the valley for four years, and says he noticed a [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department has directed its embassies in Canada and other Western nations to scrutinize the impacts of “mass migration” — the Trump administration’s latest push to reshape the geopolitics of America’s longtime allies. Last week’s dispatch to embassies directed diplomats in Ottawa, New Zealand, Australia and countries in western Europe to [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Conservative MPs slammed Prime Minister Mark Carney Monday over dismissive comments he made recently about stalled trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump. While taking questions from reporters in Johannesburg over the weekend, Carney was asked when he last spoke with Trump and replied: “Who cares?” Carney had said previously both men have [...] Read More »