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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 »

EDMONTON — The union representing Alberta teachers says its has turned down a request from the government to end a provincewide strike on Monday and go through enhanced mediation. Alberta Teachers’ Association president Jason Schilling says the mediation process would be biased since the province isn’t willing to discuss caps on classroom sizes. Schilling says [...] Read More »

EDMONTON — A final report into allegations of corruption in Alberta health contracts says it was widely known two staffers were in “real or perceived” conflicts of interest but no steps were taken by senior health officials. Former Manitoba judge Raymond Wyant writes in the report that his investigation was limited in getting to the [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — The Federal Court has decided that five outgoing chiefs of a Montreal-area Mohawk community can form a caretaker council more than two months after an election was abruptly cancelled. On Thursday, the court ruled that the five chiefs of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake will have a limited mandate to deliver essential services [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — A Montreal man has pleaded guilty to making death threats against Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Philippe Clément-Laberge, 42, entered his plea on Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse. The threats were made to the party leader and his family in early March 2024. St-Pierre Plamondon opened up to the public about the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab says a bill before MPs that would give Ottawa new powers to limit permanent and temporary immigration applications would have been useful during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government’s revised border security bill, C-12, would give the government a host of new immigration powers, including the ability to limit immigration [...] Read More »