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Alejandra Pulido-Guzman – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – apulido@lethbridgeherald.com A delegation of community and business leaders known as Team Lethbridge will be heading to Edmonton next week to spend three days advocating for Lethbridge in the Alberta Legislature.  Trevor Lewington, CEO of Economic Development Lethbridge, spoke to media Monday prior to the Team Lethbridge Mission 8 Kickoff and said this ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com An Alberta Bill of Rights is among 13 pieces of legislation the provincial government will be introducing in the fall session of the Alberta legislature which begins on Monday. The province’s list of bills also addresses gender affirming actions and transgender athletes. Government House Leader and Minister of Tourism and Sport Joseph Schow ... Read More »

The UCP government has been working at a frenzied pace, which some believe is causing more chaos for Albertans. This was the topic for this week’s Southern Alberta Council of Public Affairs meeting Thursday in the dining room of the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization. Jason Foster, director of Parkland Institute at University of Alberta and ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Hurricanes are celebrating 50 years of WHL hockey in the city, between the Broncos and the Canes and of the Sportsplex at tonight’s game versus the Red Deer Rebels. Mark Greig played from 1987 through 1990  with the Canes and  reflected  to media via Zoom earlier this week ... Read More »

By Justin Seward The Lethbridge Hurricanes dropped their second consecutive road game after losing 4-1 to the Swift Current Broncos on Friday night. Miguel Marques opened the scoring with his second goal of the year  just 5:24 into the game to give the Canes an early 1-0 lead in the first period. Brayden Edwards and ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks men’s basketball began a new ACAC season on Friday night with an 82-68 loss against the Medicine Hat College Rattlers  on home court. Kodiak men’s head coach Ryan Heggie thinks playing together and  sharing the basketball will help them find success this season. “We don’t have ... Read More »

LORNE FITCH There should have been an impact assessment done on all the provincial and corporate hair on fire over the federal government’s Impact Assessment Act. Had there been one it would have shown very little hair was being singed and most of it was not the result of the Act, or of impact assessments. ... Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – Managing Editor I’ve always believed journalists are supposed to show impartiality in politics. While we certainly have the right – and a democratic obligation – to vote we need to keep our political leanings private lest anyone accuse us of bias. And we all know how often on ... Read More »

DAN O’DONNELL For the last year, we’ve been playing a game in the Humanities Innovation Lab at the University of Lethbridge: can we get ChatGPT to tell us we’re wrong about something? If you aren’t familiar with ChatGPT, it’s one of the new set of websites (known as “chatbots”) that use a special technology called ... Read More »

Editor: The following may sound like a rejection of Christian Church. It isn’t.  I love Church. It’s like I like myself. It’s the only thing I have. That’s why I hate its past mistakes. I reject the idea of the Imperial   Christendom. My religion is that of Oscar Romero and of Desmond Tutu. “Missionary” ... Read More »

Editor: I discovered CKUA in April 1997 –  for anyone in the know that’s the brief time when the station was off the air. It was just after I’d moved to Lethbridge from Ontario and I was bitterly lonesome. Someone told me that there was an incredible radio station that would have helped me, but ... Read More »

Editor: We agree with American late-night host Stephen Colbert that Poilievre is another Donald Trump. Oil executives point out that the Carbon Tax is the cheapest and most effective way to tackle Global Warming and 27 countries agree. Yet he is using it to fearmonger and wants the Rebates eliminated that are helping to put ... Read More »