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Lethbridge and Area

Weekend Recap
Kodiaks soccer teams earn road wins as basketball and volleyball open seasons
The Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks women's and men's soccer teams picked up road victories over the Olds College Broncos on Saturday, while men's volleyball bounced back from a five-set loss to the SAIT Trojans with a win on Sunday. The weekend also marked the start of Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC) regul...
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Health
Seasonal flu shot and Covid-19 vaccinations now available across province
Beginning Monday (today), appointments can be made to get your annual flu and updated Covid-19 vaccinations. Primary Care Alberta says getting immunized against influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 can greatly impact the eventual spread of illness. Some of the other ways to cut down the number of incidents - to stay home when ...
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One reported injury
Sunday afternoon downtown Lethbridge fire limited to one suite
Lethbridge Fire & Emergency Services is reporting that one person was injured after a small blaze Sunday afternoon in the city's downtown core. Crews were called out at around 4:30 to a basement apartment unit in the 200-block of 2nd Avenue South, discovering both smoke and fire when they arrived.Thankfully, their ...
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What you need to know
Referendum Day Monday across Alberta
Alberta's Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, confirms most voting places for the Provincial Referendum Election Day are now open and will remain open until 8:00pm.Every elector is assigned a voting location based on their ordinary place of residence. On Election Day, electors may only vote at their assigned votin...
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Alberta

the final countdown
Carney in Red Deer: Separatism a "dangerous bluff" at "a moment of unprecedented opportunity"
Prime Minister Mark Carney has been on a mission this week, seeking to ensure Albertans know that Ottawa has heard its message loud and clear ahead of Monday's historic referendum.After a boisterous evening in Calgary on Thursday, and ahead of what turned out to be another one just like it in Edmonton on Friday evening...
Oct 17, 2026
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The Everything Red Deer Podcast
Exclusive: rdnewsNOW goes 1-on-1 with Prime Minister Mark Carney
In town to promote national unity ahead of the Oct. 19 referendum in Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney sat down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with podcast host and rdnewsNOW journalist Josh Hall. This episode is also watchable on YouTube.Also on this episode, senior Alberta NDP MLA Sarah Hoffman, who spoke ou...
Oct 16, 2026
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Provincial Politics
Carney, Smith join forces at Red Deer brewery to stump for a united Canada
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith joined forces at a Red Deer brewery to make a last-ditch plea for Albertans to vote to stay in Canada. Carney, standing with Smith and other politicians, channelled author Charles Dickens in saying Monday's referendum comes at the best and worst of times. He says th...
Oct 16, 2026
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Oct. 19 Referendum
Poilievre urges Albertans not to 'quit' on Canada ahead of separation vote
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he understands separatist disillusionment with the state of affairs in Canada but that quitting isn't the answer. Poilievre says quitting is the easy way out and Albertans are not quitters. He says the solution is to restore the greatness of a country that has been defe...
Oct 16, 2026
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Canada

B.C. victim of Wainwright fire was everybody's best friend, says rugby coach
The former rugby coach for Pte. Hayden Lykkemark, one of four soldiers who died in a fire at CFB Wainwright on Saturday, says all of the teenager's team and his schoolmates thought of him as their best friend. Trevor Plater, who coached Lykkemark in hi...
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BC Ferries vessel collides with humpback whale in Howe Sound near Metro Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A humpback whale has been struck by a BC Ferries vessel in waters near Metro Vancouver. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says in an email that they were alerted to the collision on Sunday, when the Queen of Surrey reportedly struck the whale nea...
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Measles outbreak over after 2 years, thousands infected in Canada: PHAC
A measles outbreak that spanned two years and infected thousands of people in Canada is over. The Public Health Agency of Canada made the declaration in a press release Monday, stating that more than 6,400 people were infected across 10 provinces. Tw...
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Federal ministers defend major projects bill at House committee meeting
OTTAWA - Four federal ministers defended the government's contentious legislation to speed up major projects in the House of Commons Monday, as Ottawa continues to face criticism from Indigenous, environment and labour groups. The 243-page bill would f...
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CFB Wainwright fire highlights long, painful process of burn recovery, specialists say
TORONTO - Burn specialists in Toronto and Hamilton say their hospitals are ready to support their Alberta colleagues as they care for dozens of patients injured in Saturday's devastating fire at CFB Wainwright. Although they don't know the specific co...
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B.C. Conservative growth projection of 3.2% 'absolutely doable,' Doerkson says
The British Columbia Conservatives' projection of 3.2 per cent economic growth by 2029 represents about one per cent "more optimism" than the New Democrats previously budgeted for, interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson said. The Conservatives' fig...
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