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The Lethbridge Herald Marks 120 Years of Local Storytelling
By Lethbridge Herald on November 21st, 2025
The Lethbridge Herald Alberta had been been a province for just over two months when the Lethbridge Herald first appeared in November of 1905. Lethbridge was a mining town of about 3,000 people, already being served by the Lethbridge News, which had just begun daily publication after 20 years as a weekly paper. Two Cranbrook ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Economic growth isn’t more important than lives and livelihoods
By Lethbridge Herald on November 21st, 2025
Editor, “In the National Interest.” Those words now remove environmental regulations in Canada when referring to “fast tracking major projects” like pipelines, mines, transmission lines and LNG. Does that sound like a good idea? No one likes bureaucracy, but regulations, good regulations are absolutely necessary for a myriad of reasons. Flint Michigan for example. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mental illness a minefield for policing sector
By Lethbridge Herald on November 21st, 2025
Chris Schneider, Ania Theuer & Stacey Hannem For the Herald In October 2024, Lethbridge hosted the first Annual First Responders Suicide Awareness Conference. Suicide is tragic and the underlying conditions that lead to it are multi-faceted. The public has learned of two recent suicides of on-duty Manitoba Mounties, one in September and the other in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Israel-Premier Tech is rebranding as NSN Cycling Team from 2026 with new base in Spain
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
BARCELONA (AP) — The Israel-Premier Tech cycling team has found a new name and will race as the NSN Cycling Team from next year onward. The team had said last month it would rebrand and move away from its Israeli identity after being repeatedly targeted by pro-Palestinian protesters during the Spanish Vuelta and later excluded ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sidhu: $6-billion trade infrastructure fund key to doubling non-U.S. exports
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
OTTAWA — International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said he’s witnessed a sea change in interest for Canadian exports headed outside the United States amid the ongoing tariff war with the U.S. Sidhu told The Canadian Press that in more than a decade working in the private sector as a customs broker, the focus for private ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A look at the 16 teams set to compete at the Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
The Montana’s Canadian Curling Trials begin Saturday and run through Nov. 30 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. The winning teams will represent Canada at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. Here’s a look at the eight women’s and eight men’s teams in the field (teams in alphabetical order with athletes from skip to lead, followed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gushue aims for Trials win to set up potential storybook Olympic capper to career
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
Brad Gushue reached the pinnacle of his sport almost 20 years ago when he stood on the top step of the Olympic podium at the Turin Games. The last hurdle in his quest to return to Italy for the Winter Olympics starts Saturday in Halifax. Gushue will skip one of eight men’s team entries at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney wraps United Arab Emirates visit with pledge of $70B investment in Canada
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
ABU DHABI — Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa is working on a $1-billion project aimed at expanding critical minerals processing capacity in Canada, while securing the equivalent of $70 billion in investment from the United Arab Emirates. The announcements came as Carney concluded a visit to Abu Dhabi that focused heavily on trade amid ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nobel laureate Han Kang’s first nonfiction book in English to be released next spring
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Han Kang’s first book of nonfiction to come out in English will be released next spring. The Korean author’s “Light and Thread” is scheduled to be published March 24 by Penguin Random House imprints in the U.S., the United Kingdom and other English-speaking regions. Published in Korean this year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!2026 World Cup: Australia and Uzbekistan to host FIFA-backed warmup mini-tournaments
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
ZURICH (AP) — World Cup qualifiers Australia and Uzbekistan will prepare for the tournament by hosting FIFA-backed tournaments of intercontinental friendlies in March, soccer’s governing body said Friday. The “FIFA Series” of mini-tournaments designed to help developing soccer nations debuted two years ago and will add the first women’s events next year, in Brazil, Ivory ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!British skeleton racer Matt Weston wins 1st test race on controversial new Olympic sliding track
By Canadian Press on November 21st, 2025
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The first official test race on the controversial sliding track being rebuilt for the Milan Cortina Olympics was won by skeleton world champion Matt Weston of Britain on Friday. Weston beat European champion Samuel Maier of Austria by 0.15 seconds after two runs in the head-first discipline down the Eugenio ... Read More »
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