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By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald   If St. Patrick’s Day is the headline act, consider the rest of Irish Heritage Month the encore worth sticking around for. By March 18, the green hats are wrinkled, the shamrock shakes are gone, and even the most enthusiastic “honorary Irish” have traded pub songs for coffee. But beyond [...] Read More »

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 »

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear a challenge of a Liberal government ban on more than 1,500 different firearms models and variants. The government banned the use, sale and importation of the weapons in May 2020, signalling they considered them fit only for the battlefield, not for hunting or sport shooting. The [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government is buying 30,000 new modular assault rifles for the Canadian Army from Colt Canada in a $307 million procurement deal. That sum covers just the first three years of the contract, after which the federal government has the option of acquiring another 35,000 rifles. The new rifles will replace the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sat down for an interview with “The Joe Rogan Experience” for a podcast episode set to be released later today. A spokesperson for Poilievre says he and Rogan recorded a full-length episode, which can run upwards of three hours. Poilievre recorded the episode while in Austin, Texas recently, where [...] Read More »

A new report says Canada has dropped down to 25th place in world happiness rankings, as researchers highlight heavy social media use contributing to a sharp decline in well-being among young people. The annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford found that Finland is the happiest country in the [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … Critics urge Ottawa to help Inuit resist Chinese surveillance, economic dependence The Carney government is leaving Inuit communities at risk of Chinese surveillance and economic dependence and isn’t facing up to the threat China poses to the [...] Read More »