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Southern Alberta Newspapers As influenza season comes into full swing over the holidays, Albertans are encouraged to keep themselves safe and get immunized.The latest data available from the province’s respiratory virus dashboard is updated to include information as recent as Dec. 6.  In the week of Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, there were 1,527 confirmed [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Alberta Teachers Association is taking the next steps to protect teachers’ rights.  ATA president Jason Schilling said during a press conference Friday morning they are taking another step to stand up for teachers and the students and families they serve. “Today we’re filing a Labour Board Relations complaint for unfair [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter There’s a second “mystery man” in the Nathan Neudorf recall campaign to join absentee organizer Ryan Tanner, according  to two city women who came forward with their story this week. Lucretia Apperloo and Barb Phillips both sent emails to recallneudorf@gmail.com after Elections Alberta announced that a notice of Recall [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A local Blackfoot artist is keeping the stories he has learned from his elders and using them to inspire his art. Kiit’okii, a multimedia painter from Piikani Nation, says he has fond memories of gathering around the camps and listening to the stories of his ancestors. “When [...] Read More »

Southern Alberta Newspapers Castle Mountain Resort is opening for its landmark 60th season today. Skiers and snowboarders attending on opening day will have access to Green Chair and Buckaroo Carpet, and snowmaking efforts are well underway to open Huckleberry Chair as soon as possible. This season, Castle Mountain will be opening its first ever high-speed [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says rising grocery prices were causing fresh pain for consumers in November even as the overall inflation rate held steady. The agency says the annual pace of inflation was unchanged at 2.2 per cent last month. Grocery prices rose 4.7 per cent annually in November, up from 3.4 per cent in [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … ‘High impact’ warning as heavy rains forecast to cause more flooding in B.C. The B.C. government says heavy rains in the forecast may cause more flooding in low-lying areas in parts of the province. Environment Canada has [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal’s Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged. Outside Quebec, that is. Bujold’s home province is an outlier among data showing the happiness of Canadians under 30 has dropped so fast that they’ve gone [...] Read More »

TORONTO — For years, Stéphane Cliche was a healthy avid athlete, but he kept getting sinus and respiratory infections and doctors couldn’t figure out why. It wasn’t until he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2016 that it became clear his immune system didn’t work properly. Cliche got immunoglobulin — a cocktail of antibodies from [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is set to publish inflation figures for November this morning. A Reuters poll ahead of the release showed the consensus among economists was for headline inflation for the month to come in at 2.3 per cent, according to LSEG Data & Analytics. That would mark a slight increase from October’s reading [...] Read More »