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Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Michelle Day-Miles, executive director of the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden and long-time advocate for tourism in the region, has achieved the Certified Destination Management Executive (CDME) designation—a  designation only 400 people in the world have. The certification is the highest individual credential in the tourism industry, awarded by Destinations International to ... Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Since Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the 8,849-metre-high (29,031 ft.) Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, climbing the world’s highest peak has been a goal for untold numbers of mountaineers. In 2025 alone, 786 people reached the table-top summit of Everest. On the ... Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Nicolas Sharan Elementary School was honoured with the Betty Grigg Inclusive Education Award at the Inclusion Lethbridge Gala held last month. The award is named after Grigg, who was a pioneer in creating an inclusive environment within schools for children with developmental disabilities. The award has been ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Bulls and Sylvan Lake Gulls are set to take baseball back to its roots in the form of the inaugural Rural Roots Baseball Classic game  in Oyen on Sunday afternoon. The Western Canadian Baseball League is wanting to recognize and pay  its homage to the league’s   history  ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Bulls won their fourth straight game after a 9-5 victory over the Energy City Cactus Rats on Friday night at Spitz Stadium. The Bulls got on the board first in their half of the first inning with two runs. With two on and nobody out, Carter Claerhout hit ... Read More »

Graham Kelly  Inside the CFL Will the Winnipeg Blue Bombers finally show signs of age? Is Nathan Rourke the second coming of Russ Jackson? Can Trevor Harris stay out of sick bay for most of the season? Will a rookie head coach recapture Edmonton’s days of glory? Will Quick Six earn his oats this year? ... Read More »

Bill Whitelaw Troy Media Talk of Alberta breaking away from Canada is no longer just background noise. It’s getting louder, more organized, and too many reasonable Albertans are staying quiet. Their silence only emboldens the “manifest destiny” crowd. The voices pushing for Alberta’s separation need to hear an important truth: the vast majority of Albertans ... Read More »

Brock Eldon C2C Journal Pierre Poilievre’s loss in Canada’s 2025 federal election wasn’t merely a matter of strategic mistakes or media bias. It marked another chapter in a half-century pattern of cultural retreat by Canadian conservatives. While conservatives talk economics, the left seizes culture—and with it, the future. As a Canadian expatriate returning after a ... Read More »

Lorne Fitch For the Herald Another piece of research has just revealed the contamination of trout and mountain whitefish in Crowsnest Lake with selenium, derived from the legacy Tent Mountain coal strip mine (Fish remain high in selenium long after mountaintop coal mines close, GOA 2025).  Scientists from the government of Alberta have confirmed  that ... Read More »

Editor, Does anyone else feel there is too much violence and competition about money on television programs?  Solutions to problems seem mostly to be solved by shoot-outs, fist fights or violence. Is it the way television executives see our society? Now it seems to be the way the world sees America.  Television was sold to ... Read More »

Editor, A Crowsnest Pass Herald editorial was used to convey surprise that protesters opposed to the Alberta Energy Regulator’s recent approval of further Grassy Mountain coal exploration would choose to protest in Crowsnest Pass as they did in mid-May.  Could it be that the location was selected because it’s just a stone’s throw from Northback ... Read More »

Editor, Since our “commoners” letters  regarding the foreign interest of Northback mining coal in our beautiful province  to Ms. Smith and her provincial assistants and the Alberta Energy Regulator fall on deaf ears (with an automatic form letter starting out with “good day” no less),  I wonder if writing now to Julie Dabrusin, Prime Minister ... Read More »