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Lethbridge and Area

Picture Butte Ambulatory Clinic to temporarily close Saturday
The Piyami Health Centre ambulatory clinic in Picture Butte will be temporarily closed Saturday, January 25, 2025.Alberta Health Services says the closure is due to an unexpected clinical personnel shortage and inability to secure coverage.The clinic will reopen Sunday, January 26 with regular weeknight clinic hours fr...
Jan 24, 2025
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Lethbridge Police located 14 unattended, running vehicles during Operation Cold Start
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service has concluded Operation Cold Start for 2025.The initiative is an awareness campaign organized annually by the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police. In it, police monitor for vehicles that are left running and unattended, and aim to educate the public on the risks involv...
Jan 24, 2025
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Lethbridge Polytechnic closing English Language Centre, unclear if other programs impacted
A post-secondary school in southern Alberta has announced layoffs and the closure of a department that has served newcomers to Canada for over 50 years.Lethbridge Polytechnic President and CEO Brad Donaldson says he is "saddened" to announce that the English Language Centre will close, effective June 30, 2025...
Jan 24, 2025
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Lethbridge Family Services hosting first ever Spring to Light Gala in 2025
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Family Services (LFS) is holding its' first ever fundraising event this year with the Spring to Light Benefit Gala. All proceeds from the function will go towards health and wellness programming for clients in LFS' DaCapo Disability Services Department, and a mental health and wellness navig...
Jan 24, 2025
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Alberta

Agriculture
Service charge increase, Peace farmers assume roles of board chair and vice-chair at Alberta Canola AGM
Alberta Canola says that growers attending the organization's annual general meeting in Red Deer Wednesday approved an increase in the service charge.It will go to &1.75 a tonne as of August 1 this year, pending Marketing Council approval. It had been $1 per tonne. A release says the increase comes after what Alber...
Jan 24, 2025
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Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi acclaimed as party's candidate for Edmonton seat
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has been acclaimed as the party's candidate in Edmonton-Strathcona.Nenshi didn't face any competition for the nomination and, if elected, would become the third NDP leader to represent the riding.It's the latest hurdle for the former Calgary mayor to get a seat in the legislature after ...
Jan 23, 2025
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Government cuts $500K in funding to Alberta disability organization
Another disability advocacy organization says its funding has been cut by the Alberta government.Trish Bowman, chief executive of Inclusion Alberta, said Wednesday the government informed her earlier this month it was cutting some of the grant funding that the group has received for decades.She said the cut totals more...
Jan 22, 2025
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FEB. 5, 2025
Albertans challenged to embrace the cold with Winter Walk Day
Alberta Blue Cross is challenging Albertans to embrace the cold and participate in Winter Walk Day on Wednesday, Feb. 5. On Winter Walk Day, everyone is encouraged to walk at least 15 minutes outside in an effort to promote and inspire a healthy culture across the province. "Winter Walk Day is a great initiative t...
Jan 22, 2025
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Canada

In the news today: Trudeau in Poland for Auschwitz anniversary
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trudeau in Poland for Auschwitz anniversary Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Krakow, Poland, where leaders from around the world are gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The not...
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Five years on, Chinese Canadians recall ridicule and racism over pandemic precautions
VANCOUVER - In early 2020, Lili Wu was already "armed to the teeth" whenever she ventured to public places near her home in Port Coquitlam, B.C. - face mask, sanitizer, protective eyewear and gloves. It was more than a month before the World Health Organization's March declaration of a global pandemic that in...
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World leaders, survivors in Poland for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
KRAKOW - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Krakow, Poland, where leaders from around the world are gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The notorious Nazi extermination camp is where historians estimate more than one million people, mostly Jews, were killed during the...
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Foreign Affairs Minister Joly says Canadian released from detention in Afghanistan
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canadian David Lavery has safely made it to Qatar from Afghanistan with the help of the Qatari government. The Canadian Armed Forces veteran went missing in Kabul back in November, according to the Veterans Transition Network. Lavery had been working with the group to...
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B.C.-based climate activist deported to Pakistan after protest charges
A British Columbia-based climate change activist says he's looking forward to seeing his family and eating the food when he returns to his native Pakistan, as he was being deported from Canada on Sunday. Zain Haq and his Canadian wife were hoping for a last-minute intervention by either the public safety minister or th...
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Trump says Canada should become part of U.S. Our head of state isn't weighing in.
OTTAWA - Canada's political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the "51st state," as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched. The heads of all major political parties resoundingly reject the idea, but Canada's head of state, King Charles III, is n...
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