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Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD Facing no real choice, the Economic and Finance Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council on Thursday voted to recommend that funding be approved to supply the Lethbridge Police Service with provincially mandated body cameras. The Alberta government in early 2023 ordered all police forces in the province to be wearing [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Profitability and cost efficiecies are key considerations for airlines, the Economic and Finance Standing Policy Committee of Lethbridge city council heard on Thursday. Mike Perkins, senior manager of airport affairs for WestJet in Calgary, told the SPC online during a report on Lethbridge air service, that the local market is a [...] Read More »

Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD Environment Lethbridge is a beneficiary of provincial funding announced Friday for 20 new projects aimed at helping to restore and protect watersheds. Only from the Watershed Resiliency and Restoration Program is going to help Lethbridge residents implement long-term strategies to address drought here, according to Kathleen Sheppard, executive director of Environment [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative The Alberta government has announced its plan to ensure all books students access in their school libraries are age appropriate, especially when it comes to sexual content. Several weeks ago, Demetrios Nicolaides, Minister of Education, announced there would be regulations put in place after concerns were raised over highly graphic [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman LETHBRIDGE HERALD Earlier this week the downtown core saw some geotechnical drilling taking place as part of a project to revitalize 5 Street South between 1 Avenue and 6 Avenue.  Bryce Dudley, senior project administrator with the City’s transportation department, says that was part of the preliminary design phase.  “The project was first [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Police say they are looking for a group of migrants who were inside a vehicle that collided near the Canada-U.S. border in southern Quebec. Authorities were called early Sunday to the scene in Hemmingford, Que., north of the New York border, where an SUV with two people collided with a vehicle carrying at [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Federal investigators have been deployed to Vancouver International Airport after a “small engine fire” onboard a WestJet flight from the United States. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it happened late Saturday as the plane arrived at the gate. WestJet spokeswoman Julia Kaiser says the plane flew in from Tampa, Florida, and [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — The tiny beetle could scarcely have picked a worse human to fly into. Amateur entomologist Andrew Short was sitting on a bench in downtown Vancouver in June 2023 when the unfamiliar metallic green beetle hit him and fell to the ground. He said he “needed to know what it was,” so he captured [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the economy is becoming the primary focus of Canada’s relationships in the Indo-Pacific — a shift that appears linked to Canada’s recent moves to overcome its security dispute with India. Anand was in Japan and Malaysia this week for her first trip to the region since taking [...] Read More »

QUADEVILLE — Residents of a tiny rural community in eastern Ontario pressed police on Saturday for answers about a disturbing attack on a young girl that investigators believed was caused by an animal — until they arrested a teenager in the case. Nearly 100 people filled a small community centre in Quadeville, about 170 kilometres [...] Read More »