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Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative The sound of a tuba arrives like a broad, bronze wave—deep, round, and impossibly solid. It hums with a weight you can feel in your chest, each note rolling out slowly, rich with warmth and authority. There’s a gentle wobble in its sound, a playful gravity that can [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Lethbridge has several annual Christmas houses that go well above-and-beyond in evoking the Christmas spirit. They’ve become cherished institutions for which visiting them has become family tradition. One of them is Ed Roberts’ “Northside North Pole” located on 28 Street, next to Jock Palmer Park. Roberts’ annual [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Alberta Party has been rebranded with a new name, the Progressive Tory Party, after battling with the UCP over naming rights for the last six months.  Peter Guthrie, MLA for Airdrie-Cochrane and leader of the Progressive Tory Party, says the journey to get here was a [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter While the western world may think of the winter solstice as the official start of winter, in Blackfoot culture it’s a sign of warmer days to come. On Friday, The City of Lethbridge hosted a winter solstice event where participants had the opportunity to learn about the [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For more than 50 years, the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization (LSCO) has been disproving the saying “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” by opening its doors on Christmas Day to provide a free turkey meal with all the fixings plus dessert to anyone in the [...] Read More »

TORONTO — A Pillsbury brand Pizza Pop may not seem like an obvious candidate for E. coli – given the freezing and heating that goes on before it reaches the consumer’s lips – but foodborne illness experts say it’s not that simple. A public health notice Monday stated 20 people got sick and four have [...] Read More »

On the darkest nights of winter when the cloud cover is just right, there’s a purple haze above parts of Metro Vancouver and it has nothing to do with Christmas or Jimi Hendrix. Cathy Latremouille said she looked outside her Crescent Beach home in Surrey on Friday night to see what looked like a “great [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Quebecers are being urged to avoid unnecessary emergency-room visits amid what one infectious-disease doctor is calling a respiratory virus maelstrom. Dr. Donald Vinh says his Montreal hospital — McGill University Health Centre — is bursting at the seams as the province grapples with a combination of flu, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus, or [...] Read More »

Canada says Santa Claus is a Canadian citizen, and it claims Canadian sovereignty extends to his North Pole residence and workshop. While the federal government did proclaim Santa’s Canadian citizenship in 2008, its sovereignty over the North Pole is contested, and the United Nations has yet to rule on Canada’s claims to extend its Arctic [...] Read More »

Citizen-led recall petitions were officially approved Monday against three more Alberta legislature members, bringing the total to 26. Twenty-four of those petitions are for United Conservative Party politicians, which is more than half of Premier Danielle Smith’s 47-member caucus. Two are for Opposition New Democrats. It’s the first time Alberta’s Recall Act has been used [...] Read More »