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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 »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has received a major land donation along the Oldman River.  Diane Glover has donated 1,253 acres of property to the NCC with the intention of the land being conserved for years to come. In a press release from the NCC to [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Alberta Teachers’ Association  is condemning the government’s plan to table legislation on Monday to force teachers back to work and end the province-wide strike.  ATA president Jason Schilling said Friday that Bill 2, the Back to School Act, is undemocratic and deeply disrespectful to teachers, students and the collective bargaining [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Police Service is inviting the community to join them on Halloween for a fun afternoon of trick-or-treating during their third annual Trunk or Treat, this year with a third location.  Cst. Joel Running said the event gives families an opportunity to bring the kids and get candy from the back [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Leave It To Beeber Well, that’s a wrap. After a newspaper career that started on May 5, 1980 when I was 20 years old, I’m moving on to new challenges and adventures. After being elected to Lethbridge city council this week, I end my decades-long career in newspapers with this column. When I [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Louise Harel cried only once during the 1995 Quebec referendum. It was in the middle of the campaign, when she saw internal polling that showed the sovereigntists in the lead. Then a Parti Québécois minister, Harel said the numbers made her believe, for the first time, that Quebec might choose independence. “It was [...] Read More »

FREDERICTON — Jane Ostrovsky glided on Fredericton’s Killarney Lake, her paddle board barely rippling the surface of the water. A skeleton and the carcass of its feline friend along with a fuzzy spider accompanied her on her purple paddle board, the Aurora Borealis. Ostrovsky was one of the nearly 50 witches — and warlocks — [...] Read More »

HALIFAX — A group of landowners in eastern Nova Scotia is speaking out for the first time about their opposition to an ambitious plan to build North America’s first coastal refuge for whales retired from theme parks. But their complaints about the way the project won approval from the province stand in sharp contrast to [...] Read More »

KUALA LUMPUR — Prime Minister Mark Carney took a veiled shot at the Trump administration’s trade policy on Sunday, highlighting Canada’s reliability and steadiness without naming the United States or calling out the president directly. “We value a rules-based system. We respect trade agreements and the rule of law. We value the free exchange of [...] Read More »

U.S. President Donald Trump announced an additional 10 per cent tariff on Canada on Saturday because the Ontario government didn’t immediately pull down an anti-tariff ad it was running in U.S. markets. “Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10 per cent over [...] Read More »