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What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: January 20-26, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
Lethbridge restaurant raises funds for Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: January 6-12, 2025
Jan 07, 2025
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: December 30 - January 5, 2025
Dec 30, 2024
Lethbridge and Area
Fort Macleod emergency department set for temporary closure
The Emergency Department (ED) at the Fort Macleod Health Centre is set to temporarily close.Alberta Health Services says the ED will shut its doors at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. It is set to reopen to full 24-hour service at 8:00 a.m. the next day.The closure is due to an unexpected clinical personnel sh...
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New Animal Care and Control Bylaw approved in Lethbridge
Animal owners in Lethbridge should be aware of new regulations that are set to come into effect this spring.Lethbridge City Council has adopted the Bylaw 6475, the Animal Care and Control Bylaw.As of May 1, 2025, it replaces the Dog Control Bylaw, the Wild or Domestic Animals Bylaw and the Pigeon Bylaw.G.M. of Regulato...
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Lethbridge Polytechnic Simulation hub receives international accreditation
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Simulation Hub at Lethbridge Polytechnic has received international accreditation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH).The hub is a high-tech clinical laboratory that simulates various healthcare treatment spaces, from emergency rooms to less intensive treatments like massage therapy...
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Nanton RCMP searching for missing woman
The RCMP is asking for help in locating a woman who has been reported missing.They say Kayla Michelle Lagman was last seen in Nanton on Saturday, January 18, 2025.She is last described as approximately six feet tall and 190 lbs. She has brown hair, brown eyes, a tattoo of a diamond on her right arm and a medium complex...
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What's Happening
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: January 20-26, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
Lethbridge restaurant raises funds for Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: January 6-12, 2025
Jan 07, 2025
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: December 30 - January 5, 2025
Dec 30, 2024
Ecoline Windows: Supplying energy-efficient products to Canadian homeowners
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: December 16-22, 2024
Dec 17, 2024
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: December 9-15, 2024
Dec 10, 2024
Alberta
trying to get below 5%
Experts express hope for smokeless Canada as country marks National Non-Smoking Week
National Non-Smoking Week is underway, and above all, it aims to underscore the cold, hard fact that 46,000 Canadians are dying from smoking-related causes each year.As the observance happens Jan. 19-25, and beyond, the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health (CCMOH) continues to be concerned specifically, it says,...
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Agriculture
Crop insurance premiums going up in 2025 says AFSC
AFSC says in a news release posted to its website that Alberta farmers can expect an increase in crop insurance premiums for this year.The company says, quote, "loss experience from previous dry years continues to drive premium increases."CEO Darryl Kay says in that same release that there were what he called...
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Provincial Politics
Smith focused on Canada-U.S. trade deficit, not Trump tariff threats
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been down in the United States recently, talking to U.S. President Donald Trump about his imposed 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods, which are expected to start February 1. In a media discussion with Smith on Tuesday morning, she says the trade relationship with the United Sta...
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PROVINCIAL POLITICS
Premier Danielle Smith welcomes U.S. tariff reprieve but calls for action
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith welcomed the U.S. tariff reprieve and called for strategic action in a statement on Jan. 20. - READ: Donald Trump doesn't mention Canada in inaugural speech as Trudeau calls for unity - "Alberta is pleased to see that today President Donald Trump has decided to refrain from imposing ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Local Sports
Hurricanes win two games over weekend, extend winning streak to seven games
The Lethbridge Hurricanes have won seven games in a row after sweeping their U.S. road trip over the weekend.January 17 vs. Wenatchee WildOn Friday, January 17, the Hurricanes kicked off their two-game weekend set against the Wenatchee Wild. In the first, the two teams went much of the period without registering a goal...
Jan 20, 2025
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Wormald scores hat trick, Hurricanes win in Tri-City for first time since 1999
The Lethbridge Hurricanes have broken their Tri-City curse, winning a game against the Americans in Kennewick for the first time since 1999.The Hurricanes came into the game having won four straight games, with the previous two coming on the road against Swift Current and Moose Jaw. The game marked the Hurricanes debut...
Jan 16, 2025
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U of L Pronghorns take home silver medal at 2025 Golden Bear Invitational
EDMONTON, AB - The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns wrestling teams attended the 2025 Golden Bear Invitational from January 11 to 12, and came away with one silver medal.Brydget Dearling claimed the silver in the Open Women - 83kg competition, taking down Abby Delorme of the University of Calgary to book her ticket ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Agriculture
How U.S. tariffs could affect Canada's agriculture industry and consumer prices
As Donald Trump's inauguration looms, Canada's agriculture industry is waiting with bated breath to see whether the sweeping tariffs he's threatened will come to pass. If they do, producers would have to plug the gaps left by restricted access to the country's largest trading partner and consumers could be left paying ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Canadians to spend $801 more on food in 2025 as climate, Trump affect prices: report
Food prices in Canada are likely to increase by three to five per cent next year, according to a newly released report, but wild cards like climate change and Donald Trump could have unforeseen impacts.That's the conclusion of the 15th annual food price report released Thursday by a partnership that includes researcher...
Dec 05, 2024
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U of L funding agriculture research
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A series of research projects will look into ways of improving agricultural practices in southern Alberta. The University of Lethbridge (U of L) is providing $50,000 per year over four years to support five researchers at the institution. Vice President of Research Dr. Dena McMartin says the results of...
Nov 27, 2024
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Canada
Snowboarding Jan. 6 rioter still in B.C. custody after Trump pardon
VANCOUVER - An American man recently found guilty of rioting at the U.S. Capitol four years ago remains in immigration custody in British Columbia, even after being given a presidential pardon for his actions. But the lawyer for 32-year-old Anthony Vo says his client plans to drop his asylum claim in Canada and he expe...
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Dragons' Den's Arlene Dickinson says Kevin O'Leary's ovations to Trump not helpful
MONTEBELLO, QUE. - One of Canada's "Dragons' Den" stars is breathing fire at a former co-star over Canada's approach to the Donald Trump White House. Arlene Dickinson, an investor who appears on the popular reality TV show, says former "Dragon" Kevin O'Leary's recent comments are not helpful as Pres...
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From immigration to intelligence: 5 ways Trump's executive orders could affect Canada
OTTAWA - While U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Canada is alarming enough, other measures he announced Monday after his inauguration could have their own implications for Canada. Here are five Trump directives that could affect Canadians: Pressure to scrap Facebook tax Canada implemented a digi...
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B.C. Premier David Eby asks Canadians to think carefully about spending money in U.S.
Premier David Eby says British Columbians should rethink trips to the United States and purchases of American products, as the province establishes a task force to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. He says the proposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports would be a "deliberate econom...
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Final report of foreign interference inquiry to be made public next Tuesday
OTTAWA - The final report of the federal inquiry into foreign interference is set for public release next Tuesday. The commission of inquiry's most recent public hearings looked at the ability of agencies and officials to identify and counter foreign meddling. The inquiry also held a series of policy roundtables to hel...
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Canadian doc says WHO headquarters 'stressed, devastated' as Trump orders U.S. exit
TORONTO - A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are "devastated" by President Donald Trump's executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency. Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this we...
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World
LA's Olympic venues spared by wildfires, but city's rebuild could impact Games' runup
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The devastation wrought by the deadly wildfires that ravaged sections of Los Angeles have left an indelible imprint on the region's landscape and psyche. The runup to the city hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, in addition to World Cup matches in 2026 and a Super Bowl in '27, will coin...
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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
NEW YORK (AP) - Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball's Hall of Fame, voted in Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. The trio will be inducted into the Hall at Cooperstown on July 27 along with Dave Parker and Dick Allen, voted in last month by the classic era committee. ___ AP M...
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Trump administration throws out policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive spots like churches
WASHINGTON (AP) - Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen. The move announced Tuesday reverses guidance that for over a decade has restricted two k...
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