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Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Disability self-advocates, families and allies walked shoulder-to-shoulder from City Hall to Galt Gardens Friday, during the 15th Annual Citizen Walk About to raise their voices for inclusion and disability rights in Southern Alberta.  This year’s theme was ““Rising from the ashes, stronger than ever, together!” The long-time [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The town of Coaldale and members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) don’t appear to be any closer to a deal that will end the lockout after its first week. Union members have been locked out since Saturday and have been picketing in the town [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The West Coulee Station Elementary School celebrated its official grand opening Friday morning with an assembly in the brand-new school’s gymnasium.  Students wore blue t-shirts showcasing the school logo and sat in the middle of the gymnasium floor while surrounded by their teachers on each side of the group and family [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Seniors from across the Green Acres Foundation’s lodges gathered at Henderson Lake’s Henderson Lake Horseshoe Picnic Shelter for the 3rd Annual Terry Fox Silver Fox fundraiser Friday. The event for senior residents to raise money for cancer research through the Terry Fox Foundation.  A Silver Fox Walk [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Many passionate questions and comments were directed to Premier Danielle Smith at Thursday night’s Alberta Next Town Hall held at the Agri-Food Hub, with topics covering a variety of issues on Alberta’s relationship with Ottawa. There were six different videos presented to the registration-only audience, each including [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — The union representing more than 7,000 engineering students at Polytechnique in Montreal says it will strike next week, after the university announced it would phase out grants aimed at offsetting education costs. Polytechnique had offered the grants since 2014 to help students pay for mandatory internships, but the school recently said it would [...] Read More »

TORONTO — Eleven people have been hospitalized, and almost 80 salmonella cases have been reported after an outbreak of infections linked to certain brands of pistachios and pistachio-containing products. Dozens of recall warnings have been issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency over the last couple months for various brands of pistachio products, from bulk [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — After talking up the prospect of cross-party collaboration in the House of Commons, Liberal and Conservative MPs wasted little time after Parliament resumed Monday before reverting to partisan attacks over housing and the cost of living. The tone was set early Monday afternoon, when the first-ever question period exchange between Prime Minister Mark [...] Read More »

An expert on the Supreme Court of Canada says a British Columbia ostrich farm faces an uphill battle “with very low odds” to get a hearing to stop the cull of about 400 birds. Emmett Macfarlane, a political-science professor at the University of Waterloo, has written a book on Canada’s highest court and says the [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Many Lion electric school buses remained off the road in Quebec on Monday after the company said over the weekend the vehicles needed more inspections and repairs. The 1,200 Lion buses operating in Quebec were pulled from service Thursday night as a precautionary measure after a bus caught fire in Montreal earlier in [...] Read More »