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Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter High school should prepare students for life in the real world after graduation, whether the graduate chooses to go on to university or not. When I think back on my own high school crucible, I remember classmates who breezed through it. Others like me faced unexpected hurdles ... Read More »

Alexandr Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Just over 25 years ago, a few local breast cancer survivors met up for lunch and decided to do something as a group after undergoing treatment.  Little did they know they would end up creating one of the largest annual events held in the city and building ... Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald coal Journalism Initiative Reporter Fear of public speaking—also known as glossophobia—often ranks higher than death on surveys about people’s biggest fears. Some studies have shown people are more afraid of speaking in front of an audience than they are of things like spiders, heights, or even dying. Since 1924, Toastmasters International ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Hurricanes find themselves down 0-2 in the WHL’s Eastern Conference final after being thumped by the Medicine Hat Tigers 7-2 on Saturday night at Co-op Place. “Tough game,” said Matt Anholt, Canes associate head coach. “Obviously being down 2-0 and two lopsided losses is gonna be a hard ... 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 »

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 »