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LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com l Beeber Lethbridge Herald abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Since it was first introduced, the Subaru Crosstrek has been one of my favourite small crossovers. And for 2021, this popular choice among buyers and reviewers is even better. The Crosstrek, in Subaru-speak, has been “re-engineered” for the 2021 model year and the improvements make an already great [...] Read More »

These days we regularly see TV footage of health care professionals in hospitals. Yet barely visible is a vital group who provide care for the soul. They are the Spiritual Care Team. At the Chinook Regional Hospital, I met Roman Catholic Spiritual Care Coordinator Annella Wehlage, who introduced me to Spiritual Health Practitioner John Moerman, [...] Read More »

It was a chilly February morning in 2001 when my father left the mall after his routine walk to drive to the curling rink to meet the rest of his retired buddies. With known heart problems, he must have sensed something amiss, and quickly and haphazardly pulled into the first pull-out he came upon. Immediately [...] Read More »

Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald Small businesses in Alberta are being offered a helping hand. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hinder small businesses, the province is offering supports to help owners through a tough time with additional pandemic support through a new financial relief program, the Enhanced COVID-19 Business Benefit, beginning in April. The Enhanced COVID-19 Business Benefit provides [...] Read More »

Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Blood Tribe members are calling for the reform of the current electoral system after about 300 people were not allowed to vote in the municipal election at the Lethbridge polling station back in November. A separate problem happened in Calgary when the location of the vote was changed the day [...] Read More »

Al Beeber – Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services is warning residents to be cautious when using the Oldman River for recreation after a 42-year-old woman drowned near Popson Park Monday. The unidentified woman was swimming with friends and went under the water after becoming separated. Witnesses said she began having difficulties with the [...] Read More »

City of Lethbridge release: ​Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services and Lethbridge Police Service responded to a sudden death of a 42-year-old woman on the Oldman River on Monday, June 14, 2021. In the early evening, Fire and EMS crews responded to a 911 call reporting a person had entered the water and went under near [...] Read More »

The Métis flag was raised Monday morning at City Hall ahead of Indigenous Awareness Week happening June 21-25. Mayor Spearman, members of city council and Métis council members gathered outside of city hall for a short ceremony to raise the Métis flag. Members of the community also turned out for the event while adhering to [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDtkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs welcomed Dr. Esther Tailfeathers, Senior Medical Director, Provincial Indigenous Wellness Core, at Alberta Health Services, to a special session of its YouTube livestream speaker series on Monday. Tailfeathers spoke about the importance of a comprehensive strategy to address the opioid and addiction crisis on the Blood [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 43-year-old man who smashed a car window with a machete then chased the driver and passenger from Coaldale to Lethbridge has been sentenced to eight months in jail. Daniel Edward Collier was sentenced Friday in Lethbridge provincial court, where he pleaded guilty to charges of assault with a weapon, dangerous driving and [...] Read More »

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 446,839 new vaccinations administered for a total of 29,901,453 doses given. Nationwide, 5,239,384 people or 14 per cent of the population has been fully vaccinated. The provinces have administered doses at [...] Read More »

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. There are 1,404,093 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 1,404,093 confirmed cases (14,923 active, 1,363,198 resolved, 25,972 deaths).*The total case count includes 13 confirmed cases among repatriated travellers. There were 809 new cases Tuesday. The rate of [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Canada’s prime minister has checked in at the final stop from his trip overseas. Trudeau and the rest of the Canadian delegation who travelled to the United Kingdom and Belgium checked in at a three-star hotel near the Ottawa airport Tuesday evening to begin a 14-day quarantine. Canada introduced a rule earlier in [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Canada is being excoriated as a racist failure as MPs who don’t intend to seek re-election say their official farewells. Mumilaq Qaqqaq, the New Democrat MP for Nunavut, says she’s discovered she doesn’t belong in Parliament, where she says she’s been racially profiled by security. She says Canada was built on the oppression [...] Read More »

VICTORIA – British Columbia’s use of solitary confinement among youth inmates is “disturbing” and the province needs to change its practices to follow international standards, the province’s ombudsperson says. A three-year investigation by Jay Chalke concludes the provincial government’s use of solitary confinement for jailed youth is “unjust and unsafe.” “It’s inconsistent with the youth [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – A hearing committee of the Law Society of Alberta says there are reasonable and probable grounds to believe that a lawyer may have committed a criminal offence after “explicit and nude” photos of a woman were included as part of an affidavit in a custody case. The self-governing body has reprimanded lawyer Karen [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – The Law Society of Alberta says criminal charges may be warranted against a lawyer who allowed sexually explicit photos of a woman to be included as part of an affidavit in a custody case. The self-governing body has sanctioned lawyer Karen Herrington of Sherwood Park, Alta., for bringing the administration of justice into [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – The Court of Appeal of Alberta has rejected a request that a third trial be stayed for a couple accused in their son’s death. Lawyers for David and Collet Stephan had requested proceedings be put on hold while they seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada a decision ordering [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – The Métis Nation of Alberta is taking the province to court over what it says is the government’s refusal to bring in an overall policy to consult the group on development projects. President Audrey Poitras says the Métis had worked out policy after years of talks with two different governments. She says shortly [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – The chair of a group representing Somali Canadians in Edmonton says there has been another local attack on a woman who was wearing a hijab. Jibril Ibrahim alleges the Somali-Canadian woman was walking by herself in northeast Edmonton on Friday evening when an unknown man grabbed her by her neck and pushed her [...] Read More »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The Southern Baptist Convention tamped down a push from the right at its largest meeting in decades on Tuesday, electing a new president who has worked to bridge racial divides in the church and defeating an effort to make an issue of critical race theory. The more than 15,000 delegates in [...] Read More »

DENVER (AP) – One of two former students accused in a fatal shooting at a suburban Denver school in 2019 was found guilty of murder, attempted murder and other crimes Tuesday. The verdict against Devon Erickson came a day after lawyers delivered closing arguments in his trial. Prosecutors said Erickson, now 20, was a full [...] Read More »

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) – Algeria’s oldest party, previously thought to be on the wane, won the largest number of seats in weekend legislative elections, the country’s electoral authority announced Tuesday. The National Liberation Front, or FLN, secured 105 of 407 parliamentary seats, according to the provisional results. Independent candidates, including young people new to politics [...] Read More »

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that 70% of adults in New York have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, a threshold he said the state would celebrate by easing many of its remaining social distancing rules and shooting off fireworks. “What does 70% mean? It means that we can now return to [...] Read More »

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and fatalities and allowed the country to emerge from the gloom and look forward to summer. The number of lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Baltimore [...] Read More »