LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com l Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Since it was first introduced, the Subaru Crosstrek has been one of my favourite small crossovers. And for 2021, this popular choice among buyers and reviewers is even better. The Crosstrek, in Subaru-speak, has been “re-engineered” for the 2021 model year and the improvements make an already great [...] Read More »
3 years agoThese days we regularly see TV footage of health care professionals in hospitals. Yet barely visible is a vital group who provide care for the soul. They are the Spiritual Care Team. At the Chinook Regional Hospital, I met Roman Catholic Spiritual Care Coordinator Annella Wehlage, who introduced me to Spiritual Health Practitioner John Moerman, [...] Read More »
3 years agoIt was a chilly February morning in 2001 when my father left the mall after his routine walk to drive to the curling rink to meet the rest of his retired buddies. With known heart problems, he must have sensed something amiss, and quickly and haphazardly pulled into the first pull-out he came upon. Immediately [...] Read More »
3 years agoDale Woodard Lethbridge Herald Small businesses in Alberta are being offered a helping hand. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hinder small businesses, the province is offering supports to help owners through a tough time with additional pandemic support through a new financial relief program, the Enhanced COVID-19 Business Benefit, beginning in April. The Enhanced COVID-19 Business Benefit provides [...] Read More »
3 years agoTim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Blood Tribe members are calling for the reform of the current electoral system after about 300 people were not allowed to vote in the municipal election at the Lethbridge polling station back in November. A separate problem happened in Calgary when the location of the vote was changed the day [...] Read More »
3 years agoLETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com The trial for a retired Lethbridge police officer accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Lethbridge several years ago has been cancelled. William Kaye was set to stand trial for two weeks starting Monday in Lethbridge Court of King’s Bench, but the matter was brought forward and vacated a few weeks ago when [...] Read More »
7 hours agoAn article on mental health within the Canadian Armed Forces has earned Lethbridge College second-year Digital Communications and Media student Justin Sibbet an internship with Troy Reeb, executive vice president of Global News. The Troy Reeb internship is annually rewarded given to a DCM graduate of Lethbridge College. Reeb is a 1998 graduate of the [...] Read More »
7 hours agoMichael Bartz, producer of a local podcast series titled In Over My Head, has travelled across the province for more than eight months and conducted 18 interviews for his latest season talking with experts from organizations such as the Oldman Watershed Council, The Alberta Wilderness Association, the Cows and Fish organization and the Alberta Lake [...] Read More »
7 hours agoThe growing season is at hand, and for months the forecast has been bleak. Heat without moisture makes for parched land and poor yields and the winter trended unwaveringly in a dry direction until February and March, when a few good snowfalls finally fell and sank in. Grant Hunter, MLA for Taber-Warner, knows the concerns [...] Read More »
7 hours agoLETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Gil McGowan believes the Alberta NDP is the party that can save the oil and gas industry. The candidate for the party leadership, which is holding its first debate at the Yates tonight starting at 7 p.m., also believes the party needs the support of working class voters if it hopes to beat [...] Read More »
7 hours agoOTTAWA – Federal Conservatives and New Democrats are demanding assurances from Ottawa that local jobs will be protected at new electric-vehicle plants. Canada’s Building Trades Union says Canadian workers are being sidelined in favour of foreign workers at the NextStar battery plant in Windsor, Ont., owned by Stellantis and LG Energy Solution. Both Stellantis and [...] Read More »
11 mins agoCHETWYND, B.C. – An out-of-control wildfire in northeastern British Columbia has triggered the province’s first evacuation of this year’s fire season. The Peace River Regional District declared a state of local emergency and issued an evacuation order for an area near Chetwynd, B.C., last night. The 50-hectare Wildmare Creek fire has also prompted an evacuation [...] Read More »
23 mins agoPRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – A sentencing hearing has started for a former Saskatchewan Mountie who shot and killed his lover. Bernie Herman, who is 55, was convicted in January of manslaughter in the death of 26-year-old Braden Herman. The two men are not related. Braden Herman’s naked body was found in 2021 in a park [...] Read More »
1 hour agoOTTAWA – International environmental advocates are calling for a petrochemical plant in southern Ontario to remain closed in light of reports about a benzene leak that continues to affect a neighbouring First Nation community. The letter, signed by more than 100 organizations around the world, calls on Canada’s environment minister to take immediate steps to [...] Read More »
1 hour agoOTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography offences. The top court’s decision to review the matter flows from Quebec court rulings concerning the sentencing of two men. The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled last June the mandatory minimum sentence of one year in prison [...] Read More »
2 hours agoEDMONTON – The Alberta government has announced a new payment model that would allow nurse practitioners to make 80 per cent of what family doctors are paid. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says nurses eligible for the payment plan must commit to caring for 900 patients and operate their clinics on weekends, evenings and holidays. She [...] Read More »
27 mins agoFormer Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi is expected to be the centre of attention as the first debate in the Alberta NDP leadership race is held Thursday night. But a political scientist is expecting the exercise to be more civil than civil war as the five candidates meet up in Lethbridge, Alta., to put their best [...] Read More »
9 hours agoEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) – Anze Kopitar fired a wrist shot past Stuart Skinner’s glove and into the top corner on a breakaway to give the Los Angeles Kings a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night in Game 2 of the first-round playoff series. Kopitar picked up the puck near the Edmonton blue [...] Read More »
12 hours agoEDMONTON – Olivia and Noah have retained their titles as Alberta’s most popular baby names. The province has released data for 2023 that shows 210 babies were named Olivia, making it the most popular girl’s name in the province for the 11th year in a row. There were 276 newborns named Noah, making it the [...] Read More »
22 hours agoCALGARY – Alberta Health Services is warning about the “significant health risk” associated with uninspected meat products purchased from eight Calgary food businesses. The businesses are Alta Halal Meat, Bismillah Meat and Grocery, Madina Halal Meat and Grocery, Maher Fresh Halal Meat, Mediterranean Halal Meats and Deli, Mustafa Madani Halal Meat and Grocery, Shawdesi Bazaar, [...] Read More »
2 days agoBALTIMORE (AP) – The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago, halting most maritime traffic through the city’s port. The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sailing under a Panama flag, passed through [...] Read More »
2 hours agoBALTIMORE (AP) – The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago. The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sailing under a Panama flag, passed through the new 35-foot (12-meter) channel headed for St. [...] Read More »
3 hours agoBALTIMORE (AP) – The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago. The “Balsa 94,” a bulk carrier sailing under a Panama flag, passed through the new 35-foot channel Thursday morning, headed for [...] Read More »
4 hours agoPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as prime minister of Haiti, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country, which has been wracked by gang violence. Henry presented his resignation in a letter signed in Los Angeles, dated April 24, and released on Thursday by his [...] Read More »
4 hours agoJIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (AP) – China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern [...] Read More »
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