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newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com A report released Thursday from the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate highlighted the importance of adequate child intervention assessments. The report, titled Calling for Change: Investigative Reviews Report 2024-2025, looked at 69 investigative reviews that took place between April 1, 2024 and Mar. 31, 2025. The reviews were conducted to investigate the [...] Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Sources suggest the government may amend, or altogether repeal its own Recall Act next week in response to 14 recall drives affecting only UCP MLAs. In response to questions about the recall drive targeting Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides in the assembly last week, Smith appeared confident that her MLAs record of service would speak [...] Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Following the first major snowfall event in Medicine Hat no official details have been released by the city in regards to providing aid to its vulnerable population following a pulled application by the Mustard Seed to develop a permanent shelter and holistic support centre on the city’s outskirts. Despite the lack of news coming [...] Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Juno award-winning country music artist Corb Lund filed an application with Elections Alberta last week to launch a citizen’s initiative petition to stop coal mining on the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. “The Grassy Mountain Project near Crowsnest Pass is quietly proceeding through the steps in its approval process (again), despite having already [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com Alberta’s government has committed nearly $6 million to help prevent, interrupt and respond to family violence. The Taking Action on Family Violence grant program is supporting 26 community organizations, including $152,614 provided to the Bridges Family Programs Association of Southeastern Alberta. “Healthy families are the bedrock of our communities and that is why it [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — Toronto resident Paul Chow was devastated when the apartment where he grew up made international news this week after a raging inferno tore through seven highrise towers in Hong Kong, leaving more than 100 dead and hundreds missing. It has been a roller-coaster of emotions for Chow, who has gone from worry to [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Quebec’s major labour unions are expected to take over downtown Montreal to express their anger over the Quebec government. The unions believe that the François Legault-led government is embarking on a shift to the right of the political spectrum, which jeopardizes the Quebec that generations have built together. In particular, they criticize the [...] Read More »

QUÉBEC — The Quebec Liberal Party says a retired judge hired to investigate allegations of cash payments during the party’s leadership race will have to submit a report by the end of January 2026. The party’s executive signed off on the independent investigation mandate given to retired judge Jacques R. Fournier, a former chief justice [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Canada maintains a low level of civilian oversight of the military due to Parliament’s rigid party discipline, according to a new book that compares it with fourteen other democracies. That conclusion was arrived at after a 10-year study conducted by a trio of defence experts — academics David Auerswald, Philippe Lagassé and Stephen [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The five NDP leadership candidates all agree on the need to revitalize the party’s grassroots and build up riding associations as the party recovers from its near-wipeout in the April election. Beyond that, the contenders are offering significantly different platform pitches now that the first debate has come and gone. Here are some [...] Read More »

Over 200 Blood Tribe members took part in The Blood Tribe Resource Fair Thursday in Standoff. The event was the first of its kind, says Levi Little Moustache, Director of Blood Tribe Employment and Skills Training (BTEST). “The event today was a collaboration of all the HR departments (including) all the departments under Blood Tribe, [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Misconduct allegations from more than five years ago finally culminated in a disciplinary hearing for Lethbridge Police Service Chief Shahin Mehdizadeh this week. The Lethbridge Police Commission held the hearing Thursday at City Hall to address misconduct allegations against Mehdizadeh regarding an incident that took place in March 2021. The allegations were made [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDjmanio@lethbridgeherald.com A perpetual challenge for not-for-profit organizations is funding for their charitable work. In support of its continuing mission, Lethbridge Family Services (LFS) is hosting an inaugural gala called “Spring to Light” on April 25 at the Agri-Food Hub and Trade Center, featuring Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist, and author Rick Mercer. “This [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A new temporary exhibit has opened at the Galt Museum and Archives that highlights different ways community members and organizations have taken action to create social change in southern Alberta. “Taking Action: People Making a Difference” is now on display until Oct. 5, 2025, and Camina Weasel Moccasin, indigenous curator at the Galt [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDjmanio@lethbridgeherald.com After a long and storied career as a familiar face reporting the weather on CTV Lethbridge, Dory Rossiter retired on April 1st and it was no April Fool’s joke. Retirement, however, merely means clearing her schedule to make room for her passions: the military, music and community service. Rossiter has been an honorary [...] Read More »