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asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Redcliff Youth Centre’s Glass House Haunting has returned after a year away to bring a Halloween thrill to anyone brave enough to enter. In partnership with the Medicine Hat Kinsmen Club, the beloved haunted house attraction has returned to the region after lacking a location for the 2024 Halloween season. This year’s event [...] Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Shane Getson, parliamentary secretary for economic corridor development, moderated a discussion Tuesday on the role regional collaboration plays in strengthening cross-border freight corridors at the 34th annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Build Northwest Economic Forum and Rail Summit. The Summit, held in Portland, Ore. Tuesday through Friday, will hold 18 working group sessions with [...] Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com Elma Eidse Neufeld’s art exhibition, Dawn and Dusk, explores the versatility of what simple paper can be in the right hands. Neufeld grew up in Manitoba and has only recently moved to Medicine Hat to be closer to family, but her art career started decades ago. “Art has always been a huge part of [...] Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com This Saturday the city is inviting residents to step into the spooky world of the Historic Ewart Duggan House, which is being transported into a textile haunted house by artist Shanell Papp. The come-and-go experience will allow visitors to walk through the immersive haunted house and explore works that reflect on impermanence, grief and [...] Read More »

zmason@medicinehatnews.com The petition for the “Alberta Funds Public Schools” citizen initiative was issued Tuesday. Organizers can now start collecting signatures to try to advance their policy proposal seeking to end the allocation of public funds to private schools. However, John Jagersma, executive director of the Association of Independent Schools and Colleges in Alberta, isn’t mincing [...] Read More »

A TikTok video from October asked viewers to “imagine” receiving an email from a teacher asking parents’ not to pack pork in their children’s school lunches lest it offend religious students. Some who shared the video claimed Ontario and other Canadian school boards banned pork products in deference to Muslim students. However, there is no [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal Conservative party is proposing a plan to improve the job prospects facing Canada’s young workers. Unemployment rose to 14.7 per cent for youth aged 15 to 24 in September, hitting a 15-year high outside the pandemic years. The Conservatives pin much of the blame on what they call Canada’s broken immigration [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Six days before the nail-biting 1995 Quebec referendum that nearly tore the country apart, Jean Chrétien told his ministers to keep their cool. The prime minister acknowledged that day that Quebecers might vote to separate from Canada on Oct. 30. He told his cabinet it wasn’t the time to discuss the consequences of [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Unifor decries Stellantis move to U.S. A union representing autoworkers at Jeep’s Brampton assembly plant in Ontario says production that had been slated there is being moved to Illinois. Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, said the move [...] Read More »

SEATTLE — Fans of the Toronto Blue Jays are taking planes, boats and automobiles to give their team some much-needed support against the winning Mariners in the American League Championship Series. Toronto is down two games heading into T-Mobile Park to play the Seattle Mariners for Game 3 in the best-of-seven series. Regular-season games in [...] 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 »