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By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald On Feb. 17, 2026, doorsteps will be swept clean, red lanterns will glow against winter skies and dinner tables will fill with dumplings, fish and long noodles as families welcome the Lunar New Year. Firecrackers will pop in Chinatowns from Vancouver to Toronto. Drums will thunder. Lions will blink, bow [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio  Lethbridge Herald  From early morning until evening, LaVonne Rideout and son Brett Ferguson moved between both fields at the Servus Sports Centre on Saturday, answering questions and checking schedules. Nearby, other family members ran registration, staffed merch tables, served as medics, and helped wherever needed. For the family of  Ramias the annual [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Premier Danielle Smith, alongside Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides, announced Thursday the Alberta Government will be investing $143 million to establish 476 complexity teams, comprising one teacher and two educational assistants, and dispatching them to 476 Kindergarten to Grade 6 schools. During the announcement Thursday, Premier Smith said [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald After nine years, Lethbridge Polytechnic has announced the ending of Coulee Fest. Coulee Fest has been celebrated since 2017 and began to commemorate the polytechnic’s 60th anniversary. Stephanie Savage, associate director of external engagement, says this was a difficult decision, but was ultimately made to redirect [...] Read More »

MORNING JOE- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald   Every February 14, the world divides neatly into two camps: those posting photos of roses arranged like they’re auditioning for a royal wedding, and those quietly Googling things like, “Is it too early to eat the emergency chocolate?” This is not bitterness. This is Singles Awareness Day — [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Longtime CBC News parliamentary bureau chief and Carleton University journalism professor Elly Alboim, who died last week at age 78, is being remembered for his lasting mark on politics and for helping to launch generations of new political journalists. Born to Polish immigrant parents, Alboim served as CBC’s parliamentary bureau chief from 1977 [...] Read More »

A video posted to social media this week claimed to show people at an Ontario winter festival calling for “deportations.” The video of torchbearers marching during the festival is real, but the chanting audio was taken from protests in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The original video shows the crowd talking and laughing, not chanting [...] Read More »

TERREBONNE — Prime Minister Mark Carney met today with former Liberal MP Tatiana Auguste in the Terrebonne riding, following the recent Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the federal election that put her in office last spring. Auguste had been declared the winner in Terrebonne over Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by a single vote after [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s first-ever defence industrial strategy Tuesday in Montreal. It seeks to boost Canadian defence exports by 50 per cent within a decade. The $6.6-billion plan sets out what the government calls a “build, partner, buy” model to source military gear domestically — especially for “sovereign capabilities” critical to [...] Read More »

NEW WESTMINSTER — The B.C. Labour Relations Board says online retail giant Amazon violated the province’s labour code by giving workers at most of its facilities scheduled pay increases, but leaving out unionized warehouse employees in Delta, B.C. The board says in a ruling that Amazon must now give the same wage increase to workers [...] Read More »