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newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Alberta’s minister of agriculture and irrigation will engage in trade talks today with several U.S. stakeholders during a three-day trip to Washington, D.C. On his Tuesday itinerary, RJ Sigurdson has five meetings with representatives from the National Potato Council, American Soybean Association, American Farm Bureau and the North American Meat Institute,. Additionally, Sigurdson will [...] Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Business minded post-secondary students from across the province gathered to give their best sales pitches to a panel of judges during an inaugural competition in Calgary held in March. The competition was the first of its kind in Western Canada to showcase the skills of marketing students, who were asked to tackle real-world challenges. [...] Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Fifteen “Community Heroes” from various professions, including the local government, police, fire and local celebrities, hung out with students of Ross Glen School during the third annual literacy event, held in conjunction with Education Week in Alberta. Mayor Linnsie Clarke, as well members of the Medicine Hat Police Service, Fire and Emergency Service, Alberta [...] Read More »

@@CollinGallant Council has approved $675,000 for advanced planning of the Saamis Solar Park despite calls from a local political group that all spending on the project should be stopped. Four dozen members of the Medicine Hat Utility Ratepayers Association attended Monday’s meeting to show opposition to the entire project, while councillors voted 6-2 for the [...] Read More »

Swift Current RCMP are investigating a single-vehicle rollover on Friday that resulted in the deaths of two Redcliff residents. Officers were initially notified of the rollover, which took place on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Swift Current, at 5:35 p.m. on April 4. Officers responded along with local fire and EMS. One passenger, identified as [...] Read More »

British Columbia’s human rights commissioner says the province is the only place that she’s aware of in Canada that allows people to be detained by the state without explicit legal authority, timelines or oversight. Kasari Govender says B.C.’s approach to holding people under the Adult Guardianship Act is discriminatory, causing harms that disproportionally impact people [...] Read More »

The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia’s southern coast. The Washington-based centre says in a Facebook post that biologist Mark Malleson encountered J-pod, part of the larger population of southern resident killer whales, as the orcas [...] Read More »

LAVAL — The man accused of killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare was unable to distinguish right from wrong, a psychiatrist told a trial on Tuesday. Dr. Sylvain Faucher was the second psychiatrist in two days to testify that Pierre Ny St-Amand was experiencing [...] Read More »

LAVAL — A second psychiatrist told a trial on Tuesday that the man accused of killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare was unable to distinguish right from wrong. Dr. Sylvain Faucher testified that Pierre Ny St-Amand was experiencing psychotic symptoms on Feb. 8, 2023 [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Canadian border officials say there has been a steady rise in the number of people seeking asylum at a border crossing south of Montreal. The rise in would-be refugees at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle crossing comes as the temporary status of hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States is set to expire over [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Police Service and Wounded Warriors Canada have joined forces to launch an innovative program to reduce the risk of trauma-related injuries experienced by police officers. After seeing a presentation by an Israel group talking about what they do to help their soldiers, as they have been in a state of combat for [...] Read More »

Alexandra Noad LETHBRIDGE HERALD Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Aboriginal Housing Society will be opening their Iinii’toyis-Buffalo Lodge multi-unit housing unit and are putting a callout for artists to be part of a mural project. Aboriginal Housing Society provides sustainable housing solutions built on a cultural basis. Melissa Many Fingers, vice chair and treasurer for [...] Read More »

Coaldale residents woke up Sunday morning to several vandalized election signs in town, an act that has left Lethbridge Liberal candidate Chris Spearman disappointed. “There were things (on the signs) that people shouldn’t see when they’re driving their families to church on Sunday,” said Spearman. “We’ve pulled out all the offensive ones – with the [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The Coaldale Public Library will be hosting a first-of-its-kind student art exhibit, to provide students from five different schools an opportunity to display their art starting Tuesday. While they have hosted student art in the past, program co-ordinator Myla Demers explains this is the first time multiple schools are taking part at the [...] Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com With winter and the need for salt and sand on the roads in the rearview mirror, the City of Lethbridge has announced the beginning of seasonal street sweeping. Residential street sweeping starts today and will continue every weekday from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the next eight to 10 weeks, weather permitting. [...] Read More »