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Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The provincial government is providing $1.36 million in funding to community-based organizations as part of the provinces 10-Year Strategy to End Gender-Based Violence. Chinook Sexual Assault Centre will be receiving $75,000 through the Community Pathways to Justice Grant Program, which funds programs that focus on victim support, [...] Read More »

Kristine Jean Southern Alberta Newspapers An end to the long-standing Town of Coaldale lockout may soon be in sight. In a virtual hearing on Oct. 21, the Alberta Labour Relations Board (ALRB) ruled in favour of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), following an unfair labour practice complaint they made earlier this month, regarding [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The City of Lethbridge’s newly elected council members have been sworn into office.  The Oath of Office was administered for each of the nine members of the 2025-2029 Lethbridge City Council Monday afternoon during a Swearing-in ceremony at City Hall.  Mayor Blaine Hyggen and councillors Al Beeber, Mark Campbell, Belinda Crowson, [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter Jully Black played her first – but not her last – Lethbridge performance at the Visitlethbridge.com Arena on Saturday.  Often called “Canada’s Queen of R&B Soul,” Black is an acclaimed musician, actor and social activist who has been inducted into Canada’s Walk of [...] Read More »

Anna Smith Southern Alberta Newspapers Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A $30-million project to a mustard milling facility in Bow Island received support from the province to the tune of a $3.1-million Agri-Processing Investment Tax Credit. G.S. Dunn Limited expects the project to add 34 new jobs, access markets in Japan and South Korea and increase [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump are attending a dinner together in South Korea today. It marks the first time the pair will be in the same room since Trump cut off trade talks with Canada on Thursday. Both leaders are attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this week [...] Read More »

TORONTO — Dr. Arlene King got measles more than 60 years ago, but she still remembers feeling so weak that getting her shoes on was a challenge. It didn’t take long for King, who was in Grade 1 at the time, to infect her 18-month-old brother whose fever spiked to such a high temperature that [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Bank of Canada set to make rate announcement The Bank of Canada is set to make an interest rate announcement and publish updated economic forecasts for the first time since January this morning. The central bank lowered its [...] Read More »

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — It’s going to be a busy day for Alberta schools today as more than 740,000 students are set to return to class following the end of a provincewide teachers strike. Classes are resuming after Premier Danielle Smith’s government invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to order 51,000 teachers back to work. Students [...] Read More »

A First Nation has filed a title claim in Quebec Superior Court to large swaths of territory across the western part of the province. Jean-Guy Whiteduck, chief of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, says his people must have a say in the way water, wildlife and forestry are managed in the region. The Aboriginal title claim [...] Read More »