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Anna Smith Southern Alberta Newspapers Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A $30-million project to a mustard milling facility in Bow Island received support from the province to the tune of a $3.1-million Agri-Processing Investment Tax Credit. G.S. Dunn Limited expects the project to add 34 new jobs, access markets in Japan and South Korea and increase [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has received a major land donation along the Oldman River.  Diane Glover has donated 1,253 acres of property to the NCC with the intention of the land being conserved for years to come. In a press release from the NCC to [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Alberta Teachers’ Association  is condemning the government’s plan to table legislation on Monday to force teachers back to work and end the province-wide strike.  ATA president Jason Schilling said Friday that Bill 2, the Back to School Act, is undemocratic and deeply disrespectful to teachers, students and the collective bargaining [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Police Service is inviting the community to join them on Halloween for a fun afternoon of trick-or-treating during their third annual Trunk or Treat, this year with a third location.  Cst. Joel Running said the event gives families an opportunity to bring the kids and get candy from the back [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Leave It To Beeber Well, that’s a wrap. After a newspaper career that started on May 5, 1980 when I was 20 years old, I’m moving on to new challenges and adventures. After being elected to Lethbridge city council this week, I end my decades-long career in newspapers with this column. When I [...] Read More »

A Superior Court judge has rejected the Bloc Québécois’s request for a new election in the Montreal-area riding won by the Liberals in April by a single vote. The Bloc had challenged the result in the Terrebonne riding after a Bloc voter revealed that her special ballot was returned to her because of an error [...] Read More »

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he doesn’t believe U.S. President Donald Trump will follow through on his threat to hit Canada with an additional 10 per cent tariff over Ontario’s anti-tariff ad campaign. Speaking in the provincial legislature this morning, Ford said he’s confident tariffs “aren’t going to go up” and other premiers are on [...] Read More »

LONGUEUIL — Police on Montreal’s South Shore say a newborn baby found abandoned inside a bus shelter has died. Longueuil police say it is the second incident involving an abandoned baby in the suburb in less than a month. Police say the were alerted around 6:30 a.m. about a newborn inside a bus shelter on [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the upcoming federal budget will include $75 million over the next three years to boost an apprentice training program focused on the building trades. The proposed funding for the Union Training and Innovation Program in the 2026-27 fiscal year is part of a suite of jobs programs Hajdu [...] Read More »

KUALA LUMPUR — Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada and the United States were close to a deal when President Donald Trump abruptly cut off trade talks on Thursday. Carney says there were “very detailed, very specific, very comprehensive” negotiations about steel, aluminum and energy trade before everything changed late last week. Speaking to reporters [...] Read More »