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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald On Wednesday hundreds gathered at the University of Lethbridge atrium, to protest the presence of former Mount Royal University professor Francis Widdowson, who had previously been protested against in February 2023, also on a Wednesday afternoon.  This time around members of Lethbridge Police were present working alongside Campus Safety to [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Festival, formally the Kiwanis Music Festival, received $15,000 to support a new Scholarship in the memory of Fran Rude. Rude put on 80 productions which included over 500 participants over the span of 55 years. Following Rude’s death about [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald   Speaking to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) on Thursday, University of Lethbridge (U of L) neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Iwaniuk argued that bird brains—often assumed to be small and simple—have played a crucial role in reshaping how scientists understand intelligence, behaviour, and the brain itself. Iwaniuk’s presentation, [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Whoop-Up Days’ focus on spotlighting local talent has earned the annual festival a significant nomination from Country Music Alberta (CMAB). Whoop-Up Days is one of five finalists for the Live Event or Presenting Series of the Year (Large Market) award. Director of event development with Excite Lethbridge, Paul Kingsmith says [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald Once a chilling warning from George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984, his vision of a totalitarian society has become cultural shorthand—used in reality-TV promos, smartphone jokes and casual conversation about life online.  More than 75 years later, Orwell’s dystopia continues to feel uncomfortably current, a fact reflected [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the economy shed 25,000 jobs in the first month of the year but a drop in the number of people looking for work drove the unemployment rate down to 6.5 per cent. The agency says January’s job losses largely came from the private sector and part-time work, and were concentrated [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Foreign affairs minister to open consulate in Greenland today Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to officially open the new consulate today in Greenland’s capital of Nuuk, where Canadian consular staff have been operating quietly for several [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — In a Surrey, B.C., pretrial centre, an inmate is goaded into fighting his cellmate — dubbed a “rat” by fellow prisoners — but then dies after being put in a 10-minute chokehold. In a Vancouver court, a convicted gangland killer with multiple murders to his name refuses to testify at a hearing, fearing [...] Read More »

NUUK — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to officially open the new consulate today in Greenland’s capital of Nuuk, where Canadian consular staff have been operating quietly for several weeks. The launch of a new Canadian diplomatic mission in Greenland is sparking hopes for more collaboration on climate change, Inuit rights and defence [...] Read More »

NUUK — Canada’s closest physical neighbours are in an escalating dispute that risks breaking the military alliance that has protected the nations of the North Atlantic for decades. U.S. President Donald Trump keeps talking about annexing Greenland, the Danish territory where Canada is about to open a diplomatic mission. Here’s a look at why diplomacy, [...] Read More »