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Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A local organization is looking for help around the holiday season. Woods Homes is a mental health centre that supports youth all over the province.  Kelsey DesRoche, program supervisor for the Lethbridge Opportunity Hub for Wood’s Homes, says the organization helps various young people in the city. [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Alberta Teachers Association and Opposition NDP responded differently to Friday’s announcement by the UCP government that a class six and complexity cabinet committee had been struck. Jason Schilling, president of the ATA said teachers have been sounding the alarm about what’s happening in their classrooms with overcrowding, rising complexity and [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald A fully functional and open Whoop-Up Drive bridge is almost a reality after months of planning for major repairs under the bridge, which will begin next week.  After a flatbed trailer carrying heavy equipment hit the bottom of the bridge on Aug. 6, damaging four of six steel girders, two of [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Food waste is a significant issue in Canada with over 58% of the food supply being wasted or lost annually, amounting to 11 million tonnes; which has major environmental, economic, and social consequences including high costs for households and businesses, a contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. “Globally, [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Chinook Regional Hospital pediatric and emergency departments have run out of stuffed animals that provide comfort and stress relief to hospitalized children. Provided annually by toy drives such as the Lethbridge Hurricane’s Teddy Bear Toss and the Southern Alberta Bikers’ Teddy Bear Ride, their stuffie stockpile [...] Read More »

TORONTO — The City of Toronto is adding more than 1,200 shelter spaces for people experiencing homelessness later this month as part of its winter services plan. A news release from the city says this figure includes 370 permanent supportive and subsidized housing units, 244 warm centre spaces that will open when temperatures hit -5 [...] Read More »

EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Katie Pasitney, whose mother co-owns the British Columbia ostrich farm where hundreds of the birds were shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, says she is focused on creating change for other farmers. Standing on the highway overlooking the field where the cull took place [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Many Canadian travellers to Europe are being asked to reveal more about themselves as officials begin to usher in new security measures. European countries are rolling out a border management system to register people for short stays and, starting late next year, many visitors will need to obtain electronic travel authorizations in advance. [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — John Moses says that when his father Russell Moses returned on leave from the Korean War, his battles weren’t over. When the Indigenous residential school survivor came back to Canada in 1952, he was turned away from a bar in Hagersville, Ont., because of his race, his son said. “That was not unique,” [...] Read More »

EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — It had taken more than 10 months before the first gunshots marked the beginning of a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm that was ordered during an avian flu outbreak last New Year’s Eve. But it was over within hours of starting on Thursday night, and [...] Read More »