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The Art Room on 2nd is preparing for its first feature show, highlighting Alberta artist Megan Weir. Weir has been capturing the beauty of everyday life out on the prairies since 2017, exploring themes of heritage, resilience and authenticity along the way. This show, “Intentions,” builds on these ideas, exploring the beauty and meaning that [...] Read More »

Edmonton-based Métis artist Kaeley Jade will help the Medicine Hat Public Library end its Home Routes Concert Series on a high note. The concert, set for Apr. 12 at 7 p.m. in the library theatre, will take place only two days after the release of her new album, “The Great Unknown.” “I’m very much looking [...] Read More »

Alberta RCMP’s Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit has arrested 47-year-old Leslie Bill Smolley on five outstanding warrants, and laid 13 additional charges. The investigation began in March, as RCMP’s CRU looked into a series of thefts, mostly occurring at recreation centres in Calgary and the surrounding area. Arrest warrants were obtained as a result of [...] Read More »

Council voted to move forward Tuesday with a pilot project that would allow Hatters to keep backyard hens. The urban hens question was first broached by council in 2015, when city staff were directed to conduct research and draft a pilot Urban Hen Bylaw. That motion was defeated. In 2022, a motion to investigate options [...] Read More »

zmason@medicinehatnews.com School boards and civil liberties advocacy groups are responding to amendments proposed to the Education Act under new legislation tabled last week that will give the province more control over ideology and operations in Alberta’s schools. Bill 25 mandates neutrality in classrooms and imposes new restrictions on the kinds of statements allowed to be [...] Read More »

Elections BC says a website set up in 2024 to demand the firing of then B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad wasn’t the work of disgruntled members, as it claimed, but was instead created on the orders of the rival BC United Party. The election body says it has penalized BC United $4,500 for false advertising [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney praised astronaut Jeremy Hansen during a call with the Artemis II crew, saying he was proud to see a Canadian in space and to hear French spoken. The call marked the third and final space-to-Earth connection organized by the Canadian Space Agency, livestreamed from the John H. Chapman Space [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Officials at Montreal-Trudeau International airport say a new $600-million light-rail station is still on track to be delivered next year. Project director Steeve Bouffard says the REM station is about 80 per cent complete and remains on budget and on schedule despite challenges remaining to complete it. Workers are concentrating on the walls [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Marilyn Gladu became the fifth opposition member of Parliament to cross the floor to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals on Wednesday, a day before the Liberal party convention in Montreal. The MP from Sarnia, Ont. is also the fourth to quit the Conservative caucus for the Liberals in recent months. Floor-crossing MPs have [...] Read More »

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says he’s sure his government will retain the legislature’s confidence and pass his plan to suspend sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act that he says pose a legal peril. The B.C. NDP holds a single-seat majority in the legislature, but Eby has told [...] 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 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 »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Alberta NDP and Friends of Medicare advocacy organization have raised alarms about the provincial government’s proposed legislation that will allow people suffering from addictions and mental illness who are deemed a threat to themselves or others to be treated against their will. On Tuesday, the government introduced Bill 53, the Compassionate Intervention [...] Read More »