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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Canada’s Premier Food Corridor (CPFC), in a continuing effort of expanding their reach and working collaboratively with other municipalities focused on the agri-food sector, is hosting a delegation from Invest Quebec over the couple of days.  The CPFC is a collaborative network of economic development professionals and municipalities committed to [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman  Lethbridge Herald CURA Climate Inc. a Canadian climate‑tech company developing electrochemical solutions to decarbonize cement production, announced a partnership with Grand Forks Concrete Ltd.  The partnership includes a formal agreement to jointly deploy both a pilot‑scale demonstration plant and a first‑of‑kind commercial facility to convert agricultural spent lime into low‑carbon cement and [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Sport Council (LSC) will be hosting a Give-it-a-Try diving event at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the university aquatic centre, for adults to try a new sport in a low commitment, low pressure environment at no cost. This event is in partnership with the Lethbridge Diving Club [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Every March 17, a strange transformation happens across Canada. Otherwise sensible adults put on novelty shamrock glasses, beer turns suspiciously green, and people with names like “Dave from Red Deer” suddenly insist they are one-sixteenth Irish on their mother’s cousin’s side. Welcome to St. Patrick’s Day — the one [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Polytechnic will be offering a new Pre-Veterinary Medicine diploma beginning in the fall and will allow graduates to transfer to the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Kevin Smith, dean for the Centre for Business Arts and Sciences, says the Polytechnic is delighted to offer [...] Read More »

REGINA — Saskatchewan has introduced a new budget that avoids tax hikes and program cuts but carries with it a big deficit. Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government spending plan for 2026-27 projects the bottom line will be $819 million in the red. The government also predicts more deficits in the years to follow. Finance [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada Border Services Agency says it has opened 372 immigration investigations in an effort to “disrupt extortion networks” across the country. It says the CBSA began formally monitoring immigration enforcement cases potentially linked to extortion in the Pacific and Prairie regions last August before expanding the work to the Greater Toronto Area in [...] Read More »

QUÉBEC — Quebec’s new budget focuses on maintaining core services like health and education, with no flashy big-ticket spending ahead of a fall general election. Gone are the recent years of tax cuts and government cheques of hundreds of dollars to Quebec households. Instead, Finance Minister Eric Girard says his budget for the 2026-27 fiscal [...] Read More »

REGINA — Saskatchewan has introduced a new budget that avoids tax hikes and program cuts but carries with it a big deficit. Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government spending plan for 2026-27 projects the bottom line will be $819 million in the red. The government also predicts more deficits in the years to follow. Finance [...] Read More »

A Chinese couple have lost a bid to immigrate to Canada after a Federal Court judge agreed there are reasonable grounds to believe the police officer husband was complicit in crimes against humanity. The ruling issued last Friday says the husband, a senior police officer with China’s Public Security Bureau in Hebei province, told immigration [...] Read More »