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Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) will be hosting a double-header at the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization today. At noon the topic will be “We won’t cancel us: How can we discuss gender and sexuality across the Liberal-Conservative divide?”  The evening presentation will be: “Elbows [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Winston Churchill High School (WCHS) students performing in a musical about the lives of high school students, so it shouldn’t be a stretch for them to get into character. However, this isn’t just any musical but the stage version of Disney’s massively successful High School Musical (HSM). [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Interfaith Food Bank has received a significant donation from the Holiday Smile Cookie Campaign proceeds just in time to help with their Christmas food hampers.  With an original goal of $40,000 the campaign raised just over $47,000 which translates into over $23,000 for the Interfaith Food Bank as the proceeds [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald A guilty plea has been entered for a 12-year-old boy charged with the attempted murder of his seven-year-old brother, and he will remain in custody awaiting sentencing.  The accused, who cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been in custody since his arrest in August.  The matter appeared [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The speed on Whoop-Up Drive has been permanently changed to 70 km/h to improve road safety and reduce the risk of serious collisions.  Darwin Juell, general manager of transportation and transit said the change of speed has been in the works for the last few years.  “We are keeping the speed [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government is using artificial intelligence to sort through public input on AI policy. Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says an internally-developed AI platform is being used to translate and summarize more than 11,000 comments the government received through its public consultation. He says the comments will be made public once the [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — More than 160 farms are in the way of floodwaters in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, although provincial Agriculture Minister Lana Popham says poultry, cows and hogs are considered safe. Floodwaters from the Nooksack River in Washington state continue to threaten the area and will rise into Friday. More coming. The Canadian Press[...] Read More »

British Columbia’s Lower Mainland is facing flooding, severed highways and evacuations due to the double impact of an atmospheric river and cross-border water flows. Here’s an explainer of why the area has been repeatedly hit by similar disasters. WHAT IS AN ATMOSPHERIC RIVER? A long, thin, horizontal “corridor” of water vapour typically associated with a [...] Read More »

QUÉBEC — Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez says he’s not going anywhere and he can still win the next election despite an ongoing crisis within the party. But several prominent Liberals are now calling for the leader to step down or to reconsider his future. They say the crisis has damaged the party with less [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — A new analysis by Quebec’s statistics institute has concluded that the vast majority of victims don’t report intimate partner violence to the police. That includes 74 per cent of women and 83 per cent of men. The study also found that 40 per cent of adult Quebec women who have been in a [...] Read More »