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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald West Coulee Station Elementary School hosted their inaugural “Latin Grammy” ceremony Wednesday night to celebrate Latin American music, giving students an opportunity to not only improve their Spanish skills, but also to learn about the various music genres involved in Latin American culture.  Students from all grades showcased their talents [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald After having some time to review the Budget 2026 allocation for education, the Lethbridge School Division and the Alberta Teachers’ Association have shared their thoughts on the matter.  The Lethbridge School Division said they welcome the Government of Alberta’s announcement that $10.8 billion will be invested in education for the [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald What if the key to navigating today’s tangled political debates, cultural tensions and information overload isn’t found in another policy paper, but in a childhood story about dogs smelling each other’s butts? At the University of Lethbridge’s February PUBlic Professor Series lecture, Dr. Don G. McIntyre made exactly that case. [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald With Green Shirt Day quickly approaching, Toby and Bernadine Boulet released this year’s shirt logo during a ceremony at City Hall Tuesday morning, a day after what would have been their son Logan’s 29th birthday.   Green Shirt Day on April 7 is a day to honour and celebrate organ [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido- Guzman Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Police have charged 56-year-old Joseph Cameron Brewster, with impaired driving causing bodily harm, following a pedestrian collision that resulted in life-threatening injuries of a 78-year-old male.  On March 2 just before 4 p.m., police responded to a report of a pedestrian collision at the intersection of 13 Street [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — Workers in B.C.’s softwood lumber industry and other sectors who are out of work because of U.S. tariffs will benefit from almost $71 million in funding for retraining. Federal Jobs Minister Pat Hajdu and Sheila Malcolmson, the minister of social development and poverty reduction, made the joint funding announcement about the three year [...] Read More »

GATINEAU — An investigation by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found that Loblaw took too long to address requests from customers who wanted to delete their PC Optimum accounts. The office says Loblaw had the mechanism to respond to requests but took an unreasonable amount of time to address them, and that it also [...] Read More »

An emerging industry to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere got a boost today with the launch of a Canadian initiative to raise another $100 million for those projects. The federal government, RBC, BMO and Shopify are among the founding members of what’s being billed as the Advance Carbon Removal Coalition. The coalition says its [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government is being accused of creating an uneven playing field in Canada’s shipping industry. Later this spring, Ottawa is expected to launch a program to subsidize interprovincial rail shipments of steel and lumber by up to 50 per cent. The move was announced in November by Prime Minister Mark Carney as [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Ottawa this week published details of an agreement recognizing the Musqueam First Nation’s Aboriginal title within much of Vancouver. The news prompted claims on social media that Canada had ceded Vancouver properties to the Musqueam, but experts in Indigenous rights law, as well as the federal minister responsible and the First Nation, say [...] Read More »