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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Police have upgraded the charges against 56-year-old Joseph Cameron Brewster, from impaired driving causing bodily harm, to impaired driving causing death, after a 78-year-old male succumbed to his injuries.  On March 2 just before 4 p.m., police responded to a report of a pedestrian collision at the intersection of [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Darrell Mathews provided a presentation on Provincial Budget Impacts during Tuesday’s City Council meeting, for information only.  During the meeting, before Mathews gave his presentation, Mayor Blaine Hyggen explained that the budget is not passed until March 31 and things can change.   “For clarity, [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald With the Home, Garden & Leisure Show just around the corner, exhibitors were busy Tuesday morning getting their displays set up in anticipation of welcoming attendees Thursday through Saturday.  One of them was the Southern Alberta Rock Garden and Landscaping Ltd. A company that has taken part in the Home, [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald Life takes resilience, especially when it gives you unexpected curveballs like the one it gave Ryan Straschnitzki, who was one of the few survivors of the Humboldt Broncos Hockey team crash in 2018. Despite becoming paralyzed from the chest down, he has not given up hope [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald After a recent string of fires across the city,  including an early-morning blaze that damaged two downtown businesses, Lethbridge’s chief fire marshal is urging residents and business owners to reduce the opportunities for fires to start in the first place. Speaking to reporters on Monday at Fire Hall No. 1, [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — When Nunavut MP Lori Idlout left the NDP to join the Liberals on Wednesday, she became the fourth member of Parliament to do so in the last four months. But she is one of more than 300 members of Parliament to cross the floor since Confederation. The move pushes Prime Minister Mark Carney’s [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The Canadian Security Intelligence Service won’t specify the advice it gave the federal government before Ottawa decided to allow TikTok to keep its Canadian operations. But the spy agency says Canadians should be cautious about their online presence. The Liberal government said Monday it will allow TikTok to continue operating in Canada now [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is heading to the United States for several days of meetings, but his itinerary does not include a stop in Washington, D.C. Poilievre’s office says he’s spending Friday and Saturday in Windsor, Ont., and Detroit. He is set to travel to Houston and Austin in Texas early next week [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — MPs voted Wednesday to reject a bill that sought to close a loophole in Ottawa’s weapons export regime that allows Washington to send Canadian arms to countries that would otherwise be blocked. “We are living within a lie with our arms exports,” NDP MP Jenny Kwan said at a Tuesday press conference. Kwan [...] Read More »

REGINA — Saskatchewan’s government is fighting back against Ottawa’s gun buyback program through measures it says aim to protect firearm owners. The province says it’s proposing legislative changes that would allow owners to apply for exemption certificates on guns prohibited by the federal government. It says the certificates would allow owners to continue to possess [...] Read More »