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Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Alberta Prosperity Project has promised that First Nations treaty rights would remain unaffected if Alberta separated from Canada, and that First Nations would actually benefit from being free of federal restrictions and see their prosperity jump, along with the rest of the province under the separatist [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Corn Maze hosted their 26th Annual Thanksgiving Fundraiser on Thanksgiving Monday with this year’s admission proceeds going towards Safe Families Lethbridge, a non-profit organization dedicated to surrounding local families in crisis with caring and compassionate community. Theo Slingerland, co-owner of the Lethbridge Corn Maze said the fundraiser went well [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Leave It To Beeber On the Thanksgiving weekend, while attacking the vines, shrubs and roses with a rented hedge trimmer before the onset of wintry weather, I spent time thinking about the meaning of the holiday. I also tried not to get distracted lest I hit my leg with the trimmer as I [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter No matter what your age is, everyone has a dream movie character they want to meet in real life, and a charity organization aims to make those dreams a reality through cosplay. C3 Caring Character Cosplay has been travelling across the world bringing smiles to children during [...] Read More »

Lethbridge Herald For the second time, the City of Lethbridge election team ias providing videos on all of the candidates running for city council and Lethbridge school boards on their website and YouTube channel. Each candidate was provided the opportunity to have a two-minute professionally produced video by a local video production company to share [...] Read More »

BANKS ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA — The federal government and two First Nations have jointly announced the establishment of three marine refuges along British Columbia’s North Coast. The Haida Nation and Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson say in a release that two marine refuge areas have been formally established in the waters near the islands of Haida [...] Read More »

JASPER, ALBERTA, CANADA — A fatality inquiry has heard the driver of a tour bus complained about its brakes days before it tumbled down an embankment in Jasper National Park, killing three people. Court has also been told the bus passed an inspection two months earlier. The Ice Explorer lost control on a road leading [...] Read More »

A Halifax pilot and longtime Blue Jays fan has taken his support for Canada’s baseball team to new heights — literally — tracing the team’s logo through the skies over Nova Scotia. “I wanted to cheer on the Blue Jays, I wanted to cheer the fans, I wanted to do it for myself,” said Dimitri [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Ministers responsible for justice and public safety at the federal, provincial and territorial levels wrapped up two days of discussions Friday on bail reform and the role of victims in the criminal justice system. Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser said the meetings in Kananaskis, Alta. offered an opportunity for every province and territory [...] Read More »

NIAGARA FALLS — Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Friday the federal government will fulfil an election campaign promise in its upcoming November budget with funding to hire 1,000 more Canada Border Services Agency officers. Anandasangaree said Friday it will cost $617.7 million over five years to “train, hire and deploy 1,000 CBSA officers.” It’s [...] Read More »