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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 »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  Mayor Blaine Hyggen put forward a motion at Tuesday’s city council meeting to declare April 7th  as Green Shirt Day once again, that passed unanimously.  Hyggen said he wants to keep bringing this item to council annually, rather than as a one-time declaration, to continually highlight Logan Boulet’s impact and [...] Read More »

  By Alejandra Pulid0-Guzman Lethbridge Herald University of Lethbridge professor Robert Williams will be exploring the concept of who is really cashing in on gambling during a PUBlic Professor Series talk Thursday.  Williams who is a research coordinator with the Alberta Gambling Research Institute and professor in the University of Lethbridge’s Faculty of Health Sciences [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee is calling on the government to make changes to the Elections Act that would make it harder for protest groups to sign up dozens of candidates in a single riding. The Longest Ballot Committee targeted ridings in a number of recent byelections and during last April’s general election, [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court has ruled that it was inappropriate for the federal government to try to block publication of a court ruling in a case that has been shrouded in secrecy. The redacted ruling involved a former police informant whose identity is protected. The former informant is suing the government and several [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — B.C.’s police complaint commissioner says his office has began a “systemic investigation” into how municipal police departments handle cases of sexual misconduct involving officers. Prabhu Rajan says sexual misconduct in police workplaces undermines “operational effectiveness” and the investigation will examine how municipal departments handle cases involving their own. The Office of the Police [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — As experts assess the aftermath of the Air Canada Express plane crash at LaGuardia Airport, some have expressed surprise it wasn’t worse — despite the tragedy of a disaster that left two pilots dead. Commercial aircraft are constructed for flight, not for withstanding head-on collisions with fire trucks that can weigh between 25 [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — The MP representing Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has described how a 12-year-old girl heroically tried to save two classmates shot in the mass killing in the community last month. Bob Zimmer told Tuesday’s National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa that the girl, named Christina, had dragged both Abel Mwansa Jr. and Maya Gebala under a [...] Read More »