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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 »

Environment Canada says a major ice storm is headed to southern Quebec starting Wednesday. Multiple regions including Montreal and Quebec City could receive between 20 to 30 millimetres of freezing rain over a period of up to 24 hours. The weather agency says the storm risks triggering power outages and creating traffic headaches. It says [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The Liberal government has nominated a senior official at the national financial intelligence agency as Ottawa’s next fiscal watchdog. Wayne Long, the secretary of state for financial institutions, tabled the certificate of nomination to ask for MPs to approve Annette Ryan to take on the currently vacant role of the parliamentary budget officer [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Lawyers representing the plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over alleged abuse say former students at two Vancouver-area Catholic schools have received a $30 million settlement offer. Vancouver-based CFM Lawyers says in a statement that Vancouver College, St. Thomas More Collegiate and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver and the plaintiffs have come to [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government is putting nearly a billion dollars into the National Research Council for defence initiatives, including the purchase of a Bombardier jet for research. Ottawa says the $900 million funding envelope is part of its Defence Industrial Strategy, a blueprint released in late February for building out the domestic defence sector. [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Lawyers say former students at two Vancouver-area Catholic schools have received a $30 million settlement offer in a class-action lawsuit over alleged abuse. More to come. The Canadian Press[...] Read More »