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Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD An audit of municipal election processes shows numerous challenges that the City of Lethbridge is facing before and during the Oct. 20 vote. An audit report to city council Tuesday by City Clerk and returning officer Bonnie Hilford and deputy City Clerk David Sarsfield illustrated those challenges for the City during [...] Read More »

Joe Manio LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER For ages, paganism and its practitioners have existed in the shadows.  Annual events like the 2025 Pagan Fest at Galt Gardens Saturday aim to bring paganism and its practitioners out into the open light in an inclusive and family friendly day of music, guest speakers, arts and crafts and [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A newly renamed political party is hoping to bring Alberta independence to a vote in a binding referendum. The Republican Party of Alberta (RPA) was founded in 2022 as the Buffalo Party but was renamed earlier this year. Cameron Davies, the leader of the RPA says the name change [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald City council today will hear an application for a land use bylaw amendment that will allow the creation of a 24-hour child care and respite facility for youth with disabilities at the site of a westside daycare that is under construction. If the project gets the green light, it will be [...] Read More »

Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD The provincial government on Monday announced it is investing $22 million over three years to modernize and expand the renal dialysis unit at Chinook Regional Hospital. The province says the funding will improve programs for southern Alberta who who chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease and depend on dialysis for [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Montreal police continued canvasing the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday for a man who was last seen struggling in the water outside the designated swimming area of a beach. Police divers resumed their search in the water off the southwestern borough of Verdun for a 32-year-old missing man who witnesses said was in [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — A conversation involving a Vancouver International Airport air traffic controller suggests the alleged hijacking of a small aircraft that temporarily stopped landings on Tuesday may have been motivated by “some type of protest.” The unidentified controller in the air-traffic audio recording tells the pilot of a grounded aircraft that a Cessna is circling [...] Read More »

HAMILTON — Prime Minister Mark Carney says any future trade deal with the United States could include “some element of managed trade,” including quotas, on softwood lumber exports. Carney’s comments come after B.C. Premier David Eby told Bloomberg News that the federal government has been speaking with the provinces about quotas to resolve the softwood [...] Read More »

TEXADA ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA — A First Nation on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says it is “deeply saddened” by the shooting death of a grizzly bear on Texada Island this week. The Tla’amin First Nation says in a statement that it was working on a co-ordinated relocation effort for the bear with two other area [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts says a Pablo Picasso painting that was vandalized last month by climate activists is back on display. An environmental activist with Last Generation Canada smeared washable paint on the 1901 painting The Hetaera on June 19. One man was arrested and charged with mischief. The museum says [...] Read More »