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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The case of a 22-year-old charged with luring a child under 14 and invitation to sexual touching was heard in Lethbridge court Friday.  Sean Cedric Bilo’s charges stem from an incident that took place in December 2025.     In mid-December 2025, police responded to a report that a 13-year-old [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Once upon a time…when I was a child growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 70s, “streaming options” meant adjusting the rabbit-ear antenna and hoping for the best. We had three main channels—ABC, CBS and NBC; plus a local station, KTVU, and my favourite…public television station [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald  At Paradise Canyon Golf Resort, the grass is still winter-yellow, the snow chased off by warmer days and the ever-present wind. But under a bright first-day-of-spring sun on Friday, that’s more than enough for golfers eager to get back on the course—including some who’ve made the trip south from Calgary, [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald If Alberta’s economy is working as designed, then the question raised Thursday at the weekly Southern Alberta Council of Public Affairs (SACPA) meeting was a simple one. Who exactly is it working for? At a one-hour Noon session at the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization (LSCO), Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald The razors are sharp, the music is haunting, and a dark classic is taking centre stage in Lethbridge. For the first time, the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra and Little Lethbridge Opera Theatre are joining forces to bring Sweeney Toddto life — and death — at Southminster United Church. Opening night on Thursday [...] Read More »

Two pilots were killed and 41 people taken to hospital after an Air Canada jet carrying 72 passengers and four crew collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night. Flight AC8646, operated by Air Canada Express carrier Jazz Aviation, had arrived from Montréal Trudeau International Airport. Here [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada’s auditor general says the federal government is running out of time to clear the backlog of public service pay transactions under the old Phoenix system to avoid infecting the new system with errors. The federal government is working to replace the error-prone Phoenix with a new system, Dayforce, and all departments and [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Auditor General Karen Hogan says there are critical weaknesses in the integrity controls for the International Student Program. An audit of the program being published today says about 150,000 cases in 2023 and 2024 were flagged because the student visa holders may not have complied with the terms of their study permits. The [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — A federal audit says the Royal Canadian Mounted Police bet wrong on the number of recruits needed to fully staff the force, contributing to a growing staff shortage and heightened risk of burnout for front-line officers. Auditor General Karen Hogan says the force set recruitment targets that fell far short of its needs [...] Read More »

NEW YORK — Two pilots were killed and 41 people taken to hospital after an Air Canada jet carrying 72 passengers and four crew collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night. Of the 41 people transported to two hospitals in Queens, nine were still in care, [...] Read More »