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By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald The Blood Tribe Emergency Services (BTES) has received zero overdose-related emergency calls since last December, marking a significant milestone for the Blood Tribe. This three-month period marks the longest stretch of zero-drug-related interventions in recent history, signalling a decline in opioid overdoses and toxicity deaths on the [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald   Aggie Days returned to Lethbridge after many years to host hundreds of students and offer them an opportunity to learn about agriculture.  Over 1,000 southern Alberta area students received immersive education in a variety of agriculture-based topics, from beef and chicken to potatoes and canola, to farm safety and [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald    A visit decades in the making came full circle in Lethbridge this weekend. Reverend Tatsuya Aoki — known within the sangha as Bishop Aoki Socho — returned to the city where part of his spiritual path first took shape, delivering a public Dharma talk Saturday at the Buddhist Temple [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald  The University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Polytechnic will put Lethbridge at the centre of a key conversation in Canadian health care later this spring, co-hosting the 2026 Western North-Western Region Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing conference from April 26 to 28 at the Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge. The three-day [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald    Lethbridge city council saw a full house on Tuesday, where dozens of Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services members attended the meeting in hopes to receive an update on the Ground Ambulance Agreement.  A presentation entitled “Emergency Health Services, Ground Ambulance Service Agreement update,” was placed in section 9 of [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Salim Touaibi has been found guilty of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder in the drive-by shooting of a teenager in Montreal in 2021. His co-accused, Aymane Bouadi, has been acquitted of all charges. Fifteen-year-old Meriem Boundaoui was shot dead while she was in the passenger seat of a car on [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Canada and other departments are failing to uphold their own Indigenous procurement strategy and may be allowing contractors to use shell companies to access contracts reserved for Indigenous businesses, says the federal procurement ombudsman. In a scathing new report released Thursday, Alexander Jeglic says Indigenous Services Canada failed to provide timely [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defence — a key NATO alliance commitment Ottawa previously failed to meet. NATO accounting estimates released Thursday suggest Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government met the key spending benchmark for 2025 [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — For the first time since 1990, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defence. Accounting estimates released by NATO say Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government met the key spending commitment to the alliance for 2025 by shelling out just over $63 billion. Canada has come under pressure in [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — NATO says Canada has finally met a key alliance commitment by spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on defence in the last fiscal year, or $63.4 billion. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte’s 2025 annual report confirms Canada has met the spending level for the first time since 1990. More coming. Kyle [...] Read More »