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By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald After a recent string of fires across the city,  including an early-morning blaze that damaged two downtown businesses, Lethbridge’s chief fire marshal is urging residents and business owners to reduce the opportunities for fires to start in the first place. Speaking to reporters on Monday at Fire Hall No. 1, [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  Almost four decades after being interviewed as one of the first female engineering students to graduate from the Lethbridge Community College’s Construction Management option of the Civil Engineering and Drafting program in 1989, Shari Jankowiak spoke to the Herald about her retirement plans after 35 years.  Jankowiak shared with the [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Nick Tetz has turned Lethbridge into his personal rodeo. For the sixth straight time, the Calgary bull rider walked out of VisitLethbridge.com Arena with the buckle, capping a dominant weekend with an event-best 89.9-point championship round ride to win the sold-out South Country Co-op Showdown on Saturday night. With thousands [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Annual gala celebrates agriculture’s regional role while awarding $10,000 scholarships to students pursuing industry careers Community leaders, farmers, students and industry partners gathered Thursday evening to celebrate agriculture and the young people preparing to carry the industry forward. The 8th Annual Rotary Ag Scholarship Awards Dinner, hosted by the Rotary [...] Read More »

A health-care advocate says Alberta is at a crossroads, warning that recent policy changes could push the province toward a two-tier system resembling that of the United States. Speaking Thursday to the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA), Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway argued that a series of reforms under Premier Danielle [...] Read More »

EDMONTON — A petition looking to oust Alberta Premier Danielle Smith from her seat in the legislature has failed. Smith is the second premier in Alberta’s history to face a recall petition, with the other happening nearly 90 years ago. Heather VanSnick says her campaign against Smith gathered close to 2,300 signatures — but it [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — American duties on Canadian softwood lumber and the ban of American alcohol by B.C. will be on the table when Premier David Eby meets the U.S. ambassador to Canada in Victoria today. Ambassador Pete Hoesktra is the same representative who said last year that U.S. President Donald Trump thinks Canada is “mean and [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — A lawyer for the woman who has accused Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet of sexual misconduct has told a Montreal courtroom that she did not defame the high-ranking cleric. In his closing statements today, Justin Wee said his client Paméla Groleau first reported her allegations anonymously in 2008 to a church advisory committee. Ouellet [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — First Nations leaders unveiled today five items repatriated to their communities after being at the Vatican for more than a century, and unboxed another two crates of items with origins that have yet to be determined. Among the items include a birch bark sap collector from Akwesasne, leather embroidered gloves from Athabasca Chipewyan, [...] Read More »

HALIFAX — Allan Legere, the serial killer known as the “Monster of the Miramichi,” has died in prison at the age of 78. Legere died in the maximum security Edmonton Institution, Correctional Service Canada confirmed Tuesday. There was no word on what caused his death, but the federal agency said police and the coroner’s office [...] Read More »