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Lethbridge Herald The Alberta government is introducing winter rules for utilities that will prevent people from being left out in the cold and dark. Until April 15, the winter rules are in effect which means residential electrical services can’t be disconnected by retailers. And starting  Nov. 15, natural gas services won’t be allowed to be [...] Read More »

Scott Sakatch Herald Editor At the risk of sounding like an old codger (yeah, I know, that ship sailed a long time ago), I can’t help waxing nostalgic whenever election time comes around. Back in the late 1990s-early 2000s, during my first go-round in journalism, election night was always an exciting time. We’d all come [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For the first time in a generation, the Toronto Blue Jays have won the American League pennant and will play in the World Series beginning Friday. Toronto rallied from a two run deficit in the seventh inning to defeat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald As municipal ballots continue to be counted by hand, unofficial results are being posted multiple times a day through the City of Lethbridge website as resident wait for official results.  The 2025 Municipal and School Election results won’t become official until noon on Friday. The City did divulge Tuesday that 17,102 [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With the 10th anniversary of the Winter Lights Festival just around the corner, Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden received a rating of 5 Blooms – Bronze – and a special mention for the Winter Lights Festival at the 31st annual Communities in Bloom National and International Awards Ceremonies [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — When Jennifer Saulnier fled her home with her dog in Tantallon, N.S., in May 2023, her phone started buzzing as she sat in stalled traffic. Her home monitoring system alerted her first to a window break, then smoke, then fire. Five minutes after “narrowly escaping” from her driveway, she said, her house was [...] Read More »

The lawyer for a British Columbia RCMP officer facing possible dismissal over derogatory comments in a private group chat and on police computer terminals says her client believed his behaviour was “condoned” by the force. Allison Tremblay, lawyer for Coquitlam RCMP Const. Mersad Mesbah, said Wednesday that her client was “led astray” by superiors, and [...] Read More »

QUÉBEC — The Quebec government has decided to equip the province’s roadside inspectors with firearms. The inspectors have complained for years about unsafe work conditions that could include violent confrontations with drivers after stopping vehicles. Quebec’s labour tribunal found in March that the equipment provided to inspectors offered insufficient protection during traffic stops. The tribunal [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre defended his comments about the RCMP Wednesday and denied saying former prime minister Justin Trudeau should be in jail. “That’s not what I said,” he said on Parliament Hill when asked about a recent interview on a YouTube channel. In that interview, which ran on the Northern Perspective channel [...] Read More »

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has approved plans for construction of North America’s first coastal refuge for whales and dolphins retired from marine theme parks. Here are five things you need to know about the project. MONEY — Charles Vinick, CEO of the U.S.-based Whale Sanctuary Project, said it will cost about $15 million [...] Read More »