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Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Ahead of the 2025 federal election, hundreds of Canadian drag performers from across the country, including stars of Canada’s Drag Race, launched a national campaign to mobilize 2SLGBTQIA+ people and allies in the 2025 federal election to vote.  The campaign is called Drag the Vote and it is focused on engaging, ... Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The two greatest words known to playoff hockey are Game Seven and Hurricane fans took that to heart on Wednesday evening as the Hurricanes faced the Hitmen in Calgary. The Movie Mill hosted the game on the big screen and fans lined up before the doors opened ... Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald With spring here, more motorcyclists are hitting the pavement – a bad choice of words but you get the drift. There I go again…. With the weather finally making riding possible, if a bit uncomfortable at times, and summer on the horizon, motorcycle riders  of all ages and abilities are getting ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald It’s not often that you hear of players that are traded to one team in a season and then play them in a critical playoff series later on in the same campaign.  Lethbridge Hurricanes forward Shane Smith is getting that opportunity to compete against  his former club, the  Medicine Hat ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Medicine Hat Tigers drew first blood in the WHL Eastern Conference final with a 5-2 Game 1 win over the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Friday night at Co-op Place. “We knew we were in tough,” said Matt Anholt, Canes associate head coach. “Obviously they’ve been off for a week-and-a-half and ... Read More »

Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald   Lethbridge sports fans will have the opportunity to hear stories of past and present athletes who have shaped Southern Alberta’s sports culture at the annual Lethbridge Sport Hall of Fame Inductee Banquet on May 9. Some of this year’s inductees include Herman Linder, a rodeo icon ... Read More »

Rob Miyashiro Lethbridge West MLA On March 27, I was pleased to deliver my maiden speech, the first major speech made by a newly elected MLA. Even though I had asked some questions and made a Members’ Statement on coal already, this first major speech allowed me to reflect on the people who helped along ... Read More »

Dr. Mark Joffee For The Herald With the federal election, tax deadlines, NHL playoffs and the arrival of spring, people have lots on their minds.  Unfortunately, measles should be, too.  Measles is a highly infectious and very serious disease.  It is entirely preventable.   Alberta’s current outbreak of easles, impacting mostly children, should concern us ... Read More »

Lorne Fitch For The Herald In 1920, Charles M. Russell, the iconic western artist, gave a speech to civic boosters, the Montana Pioneers Association, in Great Falls, Montana. In that speech he said, “In my book a pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was ... Read More »

Editor, In Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf’s April 15 Herald column, he tries to blame a decade-old NDP government for the rising transmission costs on your power bill. If this sounds absurd, let me assure you: it is. Mr. Neudorf claims that the need for new transmission lines was caused by the NDP’s “coal phase-out and ... Read More »

Editor, To have a complaint is to have a purpose. Many individuals in our society crave for meaning and purpose in an otherwise boring and meaningless existence. Our society is saturated with secular humanist rhetoric centred on the establishment of a group movement such as an environmental movement advocating for a Utopian future which ignores ... Read More »

Editor, O Canada, what have we done to thee? At the all-candidates last evening, it dawned on me that something was missing; the evening began with the obligatory aboriginal land acknowledgement then proceeded directly into the meeting.  We are not simply wandering strangers meeting on someone else’s land; we are Canadians – meeting in Canada ... Read More »