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Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Alberta Prosperity Project has promised that First Nations treaty rights would remain unaffected if Alberta separated from Canada, and that First Nations would actually benefit from being free of federal restrictions and see their prosperity jump, along with the rest of the province under the separatist [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Corn Maze hosted their 26th Annual Thanksgiving Fundraiser on Thanksgiving Monday with this year’s admission proceeds going towards Safe Families Lethbridge, a non-profit organization dedicated to surrounding local families in crisis with caring and compassionate community. Theo Slingerland, co-owner of the Lethbridge Corn Maze said the fundraiser went well [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Leave It To Beeber On the Thanksgiving weekend, while attacking the vines, shrubs and roses with a rented hedge trimmer before the onset of wintry weather, I spent time thinking about the meaning of the holiday. I also tried not to get distracted lest I hit my leg with the trimmer as I [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter No matter what your age is, everyone has a dream movie character they want to meet in real life, and a charity organization aims to make those dreams a reality through cosplay. C3 Caring Character Cosplay has been travelling across the world bringing smiles to children during [...] Read More »

Lethbridge Herald For the second time, the City of Lethbridge election team ias providing videos on all of the candidates running for city council and Lethbridge school boards on their website and YouTube channel. Each candidate was provided the opportunity to have a two-minute professionally produced video by a local video production company to share [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — A top aide to former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper has lashed out at Pierre Poilievre over his leadership of the Conservative party and his recent comments attacking the RCMP’s treatment of Justin Trudeau. In a recent interview with a YouTube channel called Northern Perspective, Poilievre called the leadership of the RCMP “despicable” [...] Read More »

JASPER, ALBERTA, CANADA — A fatality inquiry heard Friday the driver of a tour bus complained about his brakes just days before it tumbled down an embankment in Jasper National Park, killing three people. Court also heard the Ice Explorer bus had been serviced by Wajax, a company that offers repairs and maintenance for heavy-duty [...] Read More »

CALGARY — Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel and her provincial and territorial counterparts wrapped a meeting in Calgary today with a pledge for deeper collaboration to tackle the most pressing challenges in Canada’s health care system. A joint statement released after the meeting said the ministers discussed priorities ranging from securing access to pharmaceuticals, fighting [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — A former researcher at Quebec’s electric utility research institute charged with economic espionage for the benefit of China was never confronted by senior managers at Hydro-Québec about concerns when publications came to light in 2022 triggering an internal probe. “It wasn’t an obligation,” said Patrick Cyr, a manager who oversaw Yuesheng Wang at [...] Read More »

EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — The Supreme Court of Canada likely won’t decide until at least Oct. 30 whether to hear a last-ditch appeal against a planned cull of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, where an opponent of the cull was arrested on Friday. Video shared on Facebook showed social media presenter Jim Kerr [...] Read More »