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A health-care advocate says Alberta is at a crossroads, warning that recent policy changes could push the province toward a two-tier system resembling that of the United States. Speaking Thursday to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA), Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway argued that a series of reforms under Premier Danielle [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald CANstruction Lethbridge has returned for their 12th year to help restock the shelves of local food banks with much needed canned food, while displaying the creativity, engineering, and community spirit showcased in the structures on display at the Centre Village Mall.  CANstruction organizing board chair Darryl Schalk said the event [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald A young Indigenous woman, who was murdered in September of 2024, was described by her father as a firecracker who also very empathetic with a big heart. Charmayne Briggs Scout says she remembers the day she found out her sister Ginnean Briggs Scout was killed as if [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald A new 20,000 square foot facility has opened just outside of Lethbridge City limits, east of the Churchill Industrial Park, where delivery service partner ,RHAY Logistics, will help Amazon customers receive their packages faster.  The facility represents a newer business model for Amazon in Canada, operated in partnership with independent [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Every March we participate in an unwanted archaic ritual. Clocks leap forward, sleep schedules implode and coffee sales spike. “Spring Forward” arrives like a bureaucratic prank…leaving parents negotiating with overtired children, shift workers recalculating paycheques and the rest of us wondering why we’re still pretending this charade makes sense. [...] Read More »

Canada and Japan have signed a new strategic partnership agreement that looks to boost co-operation on defence, energy, trade and technology. Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Friday to discuss closer collaboration on everything from cyber policy to Arctic security and climate change. Carney — who earned a [...] Read More »

SAINTE-ROSE-DE-WATFORD, QUÉBEC — A child is dead, and 17 others were injured after a school bus carrying local children overturned Saturday morning in southeastern Quebec. Provincial police said four people sustained serious injuries, including the bus driver, but none of the injuries are immediately life-threatening. Another 13 sustained minor injuries, police said. Samuel Poulin, the [...] Read More »

SAINT-THARCISIUS — Human remains were found following a house fire in eastern Quebec late Friday night. Quebec provincial police say emergency crews were called shortly after 3:30 a.m. to a single-family home on 3e Rang Blais Nord in Saint-Tharcisius, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. Quebec provincial police say two people may have been inside the home [...] Read More »

TORONTO — Loved ones waiting with flowers, balloons and open arms tearfully embraced Canadian travellers as they arrived in Toronto’s Pearson airport on Saturday as more Canadians flee the Middle East. Passengers who arrived from Dubai expressed relief to be back on Canadian soil, as well as frustration with the U.S. attack on Iran and [...] Read More »

The Canada Border Services Agency says it’s putting a pause on removal orders to Lebanon and Israel due to the volatile situation in both countries. The agency says the temporary halt, known as an Administrative Deferral of Removals, is put on countries that are unsafe due environmental disasters or violence. The agency says the halt [...] Read More »