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A health-care advocate says Alberta is at a crossroads, warning that recent policy changes could push the province toward a two-tier system resembling that of the United States. Speaking Thursday to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA), Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway argued that a series of reforms under Premier Danielle [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald CANstruction Lethbridge has returned for their 12th year to help restock the shelves of local food banks with much needed canned food, while displaying the creativity, engineering, and community spirit showcased in the structures on display at the Centre Village Mall.  CANstruction organizing board chair Darryl Schalk said the event [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald A young Indigenous woman, who was murdered in September of 2024, was described by her father as a firecracker who also very empathetic with a big heart. Charmayne Briggs Scout says she remembers the day she found out her sister Ginnean Briggs Scout was killed as if [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald A new 20,000 square foot facility has opened just outside of Lethbridge City limits, east of the Churchill Industrial Park, where delivery service partner ,RHAY Logistics, will help Amazon customers receive their packages faster.  The facility represents a newer business model for Amazon in Canada, operated in partnership with independent [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Every March we participate in an unwanted archaic ritual. Clocks leap forward, sleep schedules implode and coffee sales spike. “Spring Forward” arrives like a bureaucratic prank…leaving parents negotiating with overtired children, shift workers recalculating paycheques and the rest of us wondering why we’re still pretending this charade makes sense. [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Culture Minister Marc Miller says a rights acknowledgment agreement between the federal government and the Musqueam First Nation has “nothing to do with” private property. He says instead that the agreement signed last month is a small step forward for a First Nation that has been fighting for its rights ever since British [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Lawyers say a $30-million class-action settlement over child abuse allegedly committed for decades at two Vancouver-area Catholic schools could be shared by more than 200 ex-students. Joe Fiorante with Vancouver-based CFM Lawyers said Monday that the estimated number of eligible victims is based on communications over the last few years with former students [...] Read More »

ABBOTSFORD — One of three men accused of killing an Abbotsford, B.C., couple has conceded that evidence against him shows he knew of the planned home invasion that resulted in the murders, but his lawyer says the prosecution hasn’t proven the man was at the crime scene. Andrew Cochrane, a lawyer for Abhijeet Singh, told [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is bringing in legislation to prevent intimidation, mental and physical harassment, and obstruction of people from going to their temples, churches and other places of worship. The 20-metre protection zones for religious sites represent an expansion of rules set up for schools in 2024 to help ensure behaviour in [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — South Korean firm Hanwha Oceans has tapped former TV news anchor Peter Mansbridge to voice an ad as it looks to secure a multi-billion-dollar procurement contract from Ottawa. Peter Mansbridge, the former voice of CBC’s The National, can be heard in a video posted to Hanwha’s YouTube page last week pitching the submarines [...] Read More »