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Lethbridge and Area

Ryan Wolfe running for Lethbridge City Council
Another contender has stepped forward in the city council race in Lethbridge.Ryan Wolfe is running to become one of the city's newest representatives in the 2025 municipal elections, which take place October 8-20, 2025.He provided the following answers to an LNN questionnaire:Why did you want to run for Lethbridge City...
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Alberta Forever Canada petition gathering signatures in Lethbridge Monday
The Alberta Forever Canada citizen initiative will gather petition signatures in Lethbridge early next week.Organizers will be at CASA on Monday, August 18, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.The Forever Canadian campaign is an effort put forward by former Progressive Conservative deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk.The petition as...
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Highway 3 realignment project announced for Fort Macleod
A major project is set to get underway next year in the Fort Macleod area.The Town of Fort Macleod has announced Stage 1A of the Highway 3 realignment project.On the eastern end of the community, Stage 1A will see the westbound lanes of Highway 3 twinned to the existing eastbound lanes, running from the Township Road 9...
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Lethbridge's Jaime Vandenberg wins Miss Universe Canada
A woman from Lethbridge says she is the first Canadian to win all of the nation's "Big Four" pageants.On Saturday, August 9, Jaime Vandenberg was crowned Miss Universe Canada, besting 74 others from across the country.She tells LNN that it was a surreal experience, but it did not feel exactly how she thought ...
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Alberta

Provincial Politics
Judge to go ahead with review of Alberta separation question
A judge has denied an application to quash a review of a proposed Alberta referendum question on separation.Court of King's Bench Justice Colin Feasby says it will benefit democracy to have a full hearing on the constitutionality of the question.Alberta's chief electoral officer, Gordon McClure, referred the question t...
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Provincial Politics
Judge's decision on future of Alberta separation question review expected today
A judge is expected to decide today whether a special court review of a proposed Alberta referendum question on separation should go ahead.Alberta's chief electoral officer, Gordon McClure, referred the question to court last month for a judge to determine whether it violates the Constitution, including treaty rights.T...
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Provincial Politics
Premier Danielle Smith, Alberta Next panel to get feedback at third town hall
A travelling panel collecting public feedback on Alberta's grievances with Ottawa is set to make its third summer town hall stop tonight.Premier Danielle Smith and 15 other members of her Alberta Next panel are scheduled to be in Edmonton to brainstorm with people about possible future referendum questions.The premier ...
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Agriculture
BeGrainSafe Week in Canada
This is BeGrainSafe Week in Canada.Its purpose is to make sure people know that grain can be dangerous and most people who get covered in grain do not survive.The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association says the BeGrainSafe program started in 2017 after what it calls in a release "increased grain entrapment fatal...
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Canada

Fact File: Canadian misidentified as CDC headquarters shooter
Social media posts falsely claimed a Canadian teen, Silas Kruger, was responsible for a shooting at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Friday that left a police officer and the suspect dead. In fact, authorities said 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White is the suspected sho...
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Judge overstepped his authority in ruling against Quebec's language law: appeal court
MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal says a provincial court judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he ruled that part of the province's language law is unconstitutional. In May 2024, Quebec court Judge Denis Galiatsatos raised the question on his own initiative while overseeing a case involving a woman charged with cr...
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Canadian-led patrol finds alleged shark finning, dolphin harvesting in North Pacific
A Canadian-led patrol of the North Pacific has uncovered dozens of alleged fisheries violations, including illegal shark finning and killing of dolphins. Sean Wheeler, international enforcement chief for the Fisheries Department, says the two-month surveillance mission was the first to include crews from three other co...
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U.S. State Department targets Online News Act in human rights report
OTTAWA - The U.S. State Department has released a new human rights report that takes aim at Canada's Online News Act. The bill, which requires Meta and Google to compensate news publishers for the use of their content, is cited in a section of the report on freedom of the press. Prime Minister Mark Carney indicated las...
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Ontario health officials report 3 new measles cases, all in Southwestern region
TORONTO - Health officials in Ontario are reporting just three new measles cases over the past week, all of them in the province's southwest region. Public Health Ontario says that brings the province's total case count to 2,362 measles cases since an outbreak began in October. One case previously reported in Sudbury's...
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Quebec language watchdog backtracks on pub sign it deemed too English
MONTREAL - Quebec's language watchdog has backed down after trying to get a well-known Montreal pub to change its sign. The language office had instructed Pub Burgundy Lion to add French language to its sign because "burgundy" is an English word. But co-owner Toby Lyle argued publicly that the name is a nod t...
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