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Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A local organization is looking for help around the holiday season. Woods Homes is a mental health centre that supports youth all over the province.  Kelsey DesRoche, program supervisor for the Lethbridge Opportunity Hub for Wood’s Homes, says the organization helps various young people in the city. [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Alberta Teachers Association and Opposition NDP responded differently to Friday’s announcement by the UCP government that a class six and complexity cabinet committee had been struck. Jason Schilling, president of the ATA said teachers have been sounding the alarm about what’s happening in their classrooms with overcrowding, rising complexity and [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald A fully functional and open Whoop-Up Drive bridge is almost a reality after months of planning for major repairs under the bridge, which will begin next week.  After a flatbed trailer carrying heavy equipment hit the bottom of the bridge on Aug. 6, damaging four of six steel girders, two of [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Food waste is a significant issue in Canada with over 58% of the food supply being wasted or lost annually, amounting to 11 million tonnes; which has major environmental, economic, and social consequences including high costs for households and businesses, a contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. “Globally, [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Chinook Regional Hospital pediatric and emergency departments have run out of stuffed animals that provide comfort and stress relief to hospitalized children. Provided annually by toy drives such as the Lethbridge Hurricane’s Teddy Bear Toss and the Southern Alberta Bikers’ Teddy Bear Ride, their stuffie stockpile [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… ‘You have to adapt’: Punk rock concerts, wrestling events keep Calgary legion afloat After years of decline, the number of members of the Royal Canadian Legion is up for the third year in a row. Nujma Bond from [...] Read More »

CALGARY — Phil MacAulay has been a member of the Royal Canadian Legion for the past 50 years, and even he’s surprised at the measures his local branch has taken to keep the 103-year-old building alive. The Calgary No. 1 Branch, nestled among towering downtown office buildings along the busy light rail track, predates the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — When Nancy Payne’s son was killed in Afghanistan in 2006, his superior told the Lansdowne, Ont., mother that her son should never have been there in the first place. “They knew that they had somebody good. He could have gone a lot, a lot further had he not gone to Afghanistan,” Payne recalled. [...] Read More »

HALIFAX — The heads of Nova Scotia’s supreme and provincial courts are expressing their support for judges who ban court staff from pinning poppies to their robes during proceedings after some Canadian politicians called the practice wrong. Deborah Smith, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, and Perry Borden, chief judge of the [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — An animal sanctuary in B.C.’s interior says it is facing a “heart-breaking” experience after discovering a positive case of H5N1, also known as avian flu. Critteraid based in Summerland B.C. says in a social media post dated Nov. 7 that its team and volunteers are “devastated” following the discovery because their animals are [...] Read More »