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The Alberta Residential Tenancy Dispute Resolution Service is now accepting applications from residents and landlords of mobile-home communities for tenancy-related disputes, including return of security deposits and disputes over damages. Legislation passed in May has made this possible. Residents and landlords of mobile-home communities can also participate in an online survey until Dec. 13 about [...] Read More »

TC Energy is ready to release more advanced proposals to bring added natural gas to the Gas City. The Medicine Hat Looping project on the Nova Gas transmission system will be discussed at a virtual open house event tonight available through the company’s website. The line would increase gas delivery to Medicine Hat on contract [...] Read More »

It is exactly one month to Christmas and if you have cards, letters or packages to mail through Canada Post, the options are already limited. International cards and letters still have a chance of reaching their destination before Christmas, depending on the country you are mailing to and whether your item is sent priority mail, [...] Read More »

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant A local mask bylaw in Medicine Hat may be debated before an early December deadline set by councillors to see whether voluntary measures would turn back rising cases of COVID-19. That could come at a special session of city council, if council members desire, said Mayor Ted Clugston on Tuesday after Premier Jason Kenney [...] Read More »

Four construction projects in Redcliff have been approved for provincial funding meant to boost economic activity and battle a COVID-caused slump. The town’s council heard Monday that administrators had received confirmation from the Minister of Municipal Affairs that four applications to the Municipal Stimulus Program had been approved. They are: – $315,700 for municipal campground [...] Read More »

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 11 a.m. Quebec is reporting 1,100 new COVID-19 cases and 28 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including 12 that occurred in the past 24 hours. Health authorities said today the number of hospitalizations remained stable at 655 and 93 people were in [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Irwin Cotler, a former Liberal cabinet minster and long-time advocate for human rights, has been appointed Canada’s first special envoy for Holocaust remembrance and combating anti-Semitism. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is announcing the appointment today, saying Jewish communities in Canada and around the world face rising anti-Semitism. Trudeau is affirming Canada’s solidarity with [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is blasting the prime minister’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling Justin Trudeau’s pledge that vaccines will start to arrive in the coming months “unacceptable.” Trudeau sought to reassure Canadians yesterday even as he acknowledged that some other countries are likely to start inoculating their citizens first, citing [...] Read More »

A new national survey by Women’s Shelters Canada offers a glimpse into the experiences of front-line workers and women fleeing violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, with reports of clients facing more violence that is also increasing in severity. The Shelter Voices survey says 52 per cent of 266 participating shelters reported seeing clients who were [...] Read More »

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 25 … What we are watching in Canada … The Ontario government is expected to spell out its guidelines today for celebrating the upcoming [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – The Alberta government announced Tuesday new restrictions to battle record-high rates of COVID-19 infections in the province. In addition to declaring a public health emergency, the government ordered the following for the next three weeks: – No indoor social gatherings. Funerals and weddings are limited to 10 people, as are outdoor gatherings. Churches [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Alberta Fish and Wildlife says two men have been fined $22,000 for the illegal killing of a grizzly bear that also led to an assault. Officers say in a statement that they received a report about the death of the bear on Nov. 5, 2018. The person who reported the killing also reported [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – FC Edmonton has hired Alan Koch as head coach and director of football operations of the Canadian Premier League club. Koch replaces Jeff Paulus, who resigned in September. Koch coached FC Cincinnati from 2016 to 2019 during which time the club transitioned from the United States League to Major League Soccer. He was [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Alberta’s nurses union says the province’s health delivery agency has rejected a call for a settlement similar to one reached with nurses in Saskatchewan that would have provided stability during the COVID-19 pandemic. United Nurses of Alberta says in a news release it called on Alberta Health Services to quickly negotiate a contract [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says immediate action is needed to reverse the rate of skyrocketing COVID-19 cases in the province. “This is like a snowball rolling down a hill, growing bigger and faster, and it will continue unless we implement strong measures to stop (it). We must take action,” Hinshaw said [...] Read More »

In Flanders Fields Translated into the Blackfoot Language by Dr. Lena Russell Iitstsaahpi awahkaotsiiyiiksi I’niiksi apamoohtsi Iitohkanaikstoihtsiiyaawa. Pisatssaisskiistsi itawaawattohpapokaii’yi Sitokoohtsi awoysstaakssiiksi. Iihtsskskoi’pi nitsitstsiihpinnaani. Kii spoohtsi, pi’kssiiksi, saakiaawaaksistooyinihkiyi. Aipottaayaawa. Maatohtoohtowawaiksaawa isskonakssini saainisoohtsi Niistonnaana anniksao’ki anniiksisska I’nitaikska. Maatomaisamowa ninoohkattsipaitapiiyihpinnaan. Ninoohkattoohtohki’pinnaan otaoo’tamisskapssi naato’siwa. Nimattsini’pinnaan otaiisttahkapssi naato’siwa. Nitaakomimmihtaahpinnaan. Ninoohkattakomimmotspinnaan. Kiannohka nita’tamitaihtsiihpinnaan I’niiksi itaihstaahpi. Noohkakohkootsiimoka nitaawaawahkaotsiimannaaniksi. No’tsinnaanistsi aii’sistsikooyi. Nitsitapaapiksi’pinnaan isstsaana’kima’tsisi. [...] Read More »

Dale Woodard Lethbridge Herald In this case, not seeing a little bit of blue sky won’t be a bad thing. For those visiting the Shooting Sports Facility, it’ll make it even safer. Construction on safety enhancements at the Shooting Sports Facility operated by the Lethbridge Fish and Game Association began this week. The construction project, [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALD Lethbridge Police Service raising awareness of the rules and regulations regarding child safety seats as its focus for the Select Traffic Enforcement Program for November. In Alberta, the law requires all occupants travelling in a motor vehicle use a seatbelt or child safety seat that is properly worn and adjusted. Children who weigh [...] Read More »

Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com A class-action lawsuit to be filed against a Calgary-based oil company on behalf of farmers who have not been paid their annual surface lease fees could set a precedent for the rest of the province of Alberta. Guardian Law Group will be launching the class action against AlphaBow Energy Ltd. [...] Read More »

Delon Shurtz lethbridge herald dshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A southern Alberta man who has already pleaded guilty to several sex-related charges, including child luring, will finally have a chance to ask a judge to strike his pleas. Gary James Lippa, who pleaded guilty in February to charges of sexual assault, child luring, and making, printing and publishing child [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON – U.S. consumers increased their spending by a sluggish 0.5% last month, the weakest rise since April, when the pandemic first erupted, and a sign that Americans remain wary with the virus resurging across the country and threatening the economy. The October gain reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department followed a seasonally adjusted 1.2% [...] Read More »

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran state TV says Tehran has released detained British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert in exchange for three Iranians held abroad. The state TV report offered no further details Wednesday beyond saying that the three Iranians released in the swap had been detained for trying to bypass sanctions. Moore-Gilbert was a Melbourne University lecturer [...] Read More »

BERLIN – A car crashed into the front gate of the building housing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s offices on Wednesday morning, causing minor damage, authorities said. The driver, who authorities say had been involved in an almost identical incident six years ago, was detained. The Volkswagen station wagon hit the gate to the German chancellery [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy rebounded at a record pace of 33.1% in the July-September quarter, unchanged from the first estimate a month ago. But a resurgence in the coronavirus is expected to slow growth sharply in the current quarter with some economists even raising the spectre of a double-dip recession. The overall increase in [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy rebounded at a record pace of 33.1% in the July-September quarter, unchanged from the first estimate a month ago. But a resurgence in the coronavirus is expected to slow growth sharply in the current quarter with some economists even raising the spectre of a double-dip recession. The overall increase in [...] Read More »