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Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald This week marks Seniors Week and to celebrate, Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre has plenty of activities to keep members engaged, entertained and fed.  After a successful and fun jam session and darts tournament on Monday, and a Toonie Pancake Breakfast and a discussion about travel on Tuesday at Nord-Bridge, members had the ... Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Lori Goater peers out from her kitchen table to the dwindling Oldman River, which should be flowing with ample water, has slowly been getting smaller which can be easily noticed during times of drought such as the last couple of years. Goater, who has a master’s degree ... Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Family Services Angel Tree Christmas campaign will once again receive a special early donation through the third annual Annie Effect event.  The Olsen family, who continue to honour the memory of their baby girl Annie Rae Olsen by helping other families, will be collecting items to be donated for ... Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald The City of Lethbridge announced on Wednesday it is investing more than $1.2 million toward community projects aimed at creating  more inclusive, accessible and welcoming spaces. The money comes from the Make Your Mark and Community Capital Project Grant programming funding. Andrew Malcolm, general manager of Community Social Development, made the ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald After starting their Western Canadian Baseball League season 0-3, the Lethbridge Bulls reeled off two straight wins to close out a five-game road trip. The Bulls came back to beat the Swift Current 57’s 3-2 on Wednesday night. The 57’s got on the board first in Wednesday night’s game when ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Winston Churchill High School is hosting  22 high school varsity Rugby 15s teams  from across the province both at the 3A and 4A levels  in Lethbridge tomorrow and Saturday for the Alberta Schools’ Athletic Association provincial championships in what is bound to be a competitive two days of competition. “You’re ... Read More »

Brock Eldon C2C Journal Pierre Poilievre’s loss in Canada’s 2025 federal election wasn’t merely a matter of strategic mistakes or media bias. It marked another chapter in a half-century pattern of cultural retreat by Canadian conservatives. While conservatives talk economics, the left seizes culture—and with it, the future. As a Canadian expatriate returning after a ... Read More »

Lorne Fitch For the Herald Another piece of research has just revealed the contamination of trout and mountain whitefish in Crowsnest Lake with selenium, derived from the legacy Tent Mountain coal strip mine (Fish remain high in selenium long after mountaintop coal mines close, GOA 2025).  Scientists from the government of Alberta have confirmed  that ... Read More »

Tadashi (Tad) Mitsui For the Herald We will all die.  I wonder how the garish narcissist of the South would cope with such idea as his own death. Last two years at the church, I was a part of the discussion group about “death and dying.”  We met once a month.  From the outset, we ... Read More »

Editor, Does anyone else feel there is too much violence and competition about money on television programs?  Solutions to problems seem mostly to be solved by shoot-outs, fist fights or violence. Is it the way television executives see our society? Now it seems to be the way the world sees America.  Television was sold to ... Read More »

Editor, A Crowsnest Pass Herald editorial was used to convey surprise that protesters opposed to the Alberta Energy Regulator’s recent approval of further Grassy Mountain coal exploration would choose to protest in Crowsnest Pass as they did in mid-May.  Could it be that the location was selected because it’s just a stone’s throw from Northback ... Read More »

Editor, Since our “commoners” letters  regarding the foreign interest of Northback mining coal in our beautiful province  to Ms. Smith and her provincial assistants and the Alberta Energy Regulator fall on deaf ears (with an automatic form letter starting out with “good day” no less),  I wonder if writing now to Julie Dabrusin, Prime Minister ... Read More »