December 17th, 2025
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  • Stars align for charity show

    Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Canadian country legends George Canyon and Aaron Pritchett have been travelling across the country for almost two moths raising funds for Children Believe and will be making a stop at the VisitLethbridge.com Arena this evening. Children Believe is a Canadian charity organization who works alongside poverty stricken [...] Read More »

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  • Win-win situation

    Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A new lottery is being launched to help cardiac care at the Chinook Regional Hospital. The Downtown Rotary Club of Lethbridge has launched their 2025-26 Catch the Ace lottery with all proceeds headed to the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation’s Bringing Home Hearts campaign, which aims to raise [...] Read More »

    15 hours ago
  • No place like a safe home for the holidays

    Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As Lethbridge residents prepare to deck the halls this holiday season, Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services (LFES) reminds people to decorate and cook safely as some of the things that bring comfort and joy to the season can also become fire hazards under the right conditions. Winter [...] Read More »

    15 hours ago
  • Coal petition hits the brakes ­for now

    Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The citizen’s petition to stop any new coal mines from opening on the Eastern Slopes, organized by country singer Corb Lund, has been cancelled due to the implementation of Bill 14. Lund says he was informed of the cancellation of his petition on Friday morning, just five [...] Read More »

    2 days ago
  • Ag Society and Excite team up for Aggie Days

    Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge & District Agricultural Society in partnership with Excite Lethbridge will be bringing Aggie Days back to Lethbridge on March 25 and 26, 2026 at the Lethbridge Trade & Convention Centre.  Cody McIntosh, newly appointed LDAS director said it is exciting to be bringing Aggie Days back as the first [...] Read More »

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National News

  • Residents unconvinced by Vancouver’s plan to replace Downtown Eastside rooming houses

    VANCOUVER — Downtown Eastside resident Brian O’Donnell lives in a single-room occupancy hotel in Chinatown, although he says it’s not really a home. “It’s livable,” said O’Donnell, who added that he felt like a “house mother” to fellow tenants. “It’s got a roof over my head.” O’Donnell was one of hundreds of voices heard at [...] Read More »

    5 hours ago
  • Federal help with infrastructure is critical to trade, B.C. Premier Eby says

    VANCOUVER — Federal government investment in provincial transportation infrastructure is crucial to avoid long-term impacts on cross-Canada trade and companies’ willingness to work in British Columbia, Premier David Eby says. Eby met with the federal government’s major projects office Wednesday and said he raised work that needs to be done on “trade-enabling infrastructure” such as [...] Read More »

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  • Photo Gallery: Young Canadians amid a world of woe

    The Canadian Press interviewed and photographed young people across the country for a series of stories about the challenges they are facing, that have seen their generation go from being the happiest in Canada to the unhappiest in less than 15 years. Here are some of them. This report by The Canadian Press was first [...] Read More »

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  • Making lawyers swear Oath of Allegiance to monarch unconstitutional: Alberta court

    EDMONTON — Alberta’s top court has ruled that requiring prospective lawyers to swear the Oath of Allegiance to the reigning monarch is unconstitutional and infringes on religious freedom. The Court of Appeal of Alberta made the decision Tuesday in Prabjot Wirring’s years-long case against the province and Law Society of Alberta. The court said the [...] Read More »

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  • Quebec man seeks bail as 1994 murder conviction likely a miscarriage of justice

    MONTREAL — A Quebec man whose murder conviction is being reviewed by the federal government will find out Friday if he can regain his freedom after more than three decades behind bars. Daniel Jolivet, now 68, was convicted in 1994 of four murders in Brossard, Que., south of Montreal. In October, the federal government had [...] Read More »

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