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Lethbridge and Area

Job fair in Lethbridge Sept. 25
Anyone in the Lethbridge area who is looking for work will have dozens of options at their fingertips.Teamworks Career Centre and the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce are teaming up to host the Community Job Fair on Thursday, Sept. 25, at the Agri-food Hub & Trade Centre.Teamworks Manager Barb Wolstoncroft says they ...
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Screen Lethbridge to promote city as key filmmaking destination
If The Last of Us is anything to go by, communities like Lethbridge could see a major economic boost from film and TV projects.That is why the City of Lethbridge and Economic Development Lethbridge have teamed up to launch Screen Lethbridge.Ismail Okasha, Film Services Support at the City of Lethbridge, says he eventua...
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$100,000 donation to Lethbridge cardiac care centre
A couple from Lethbridge has made a sizable donation to future healthcare services in the city.Glenn and Janice Varzari are giving $100,000 to the Bringing Hearts Come cardiac campaign.Janice says, "We are honoured to contribute this donation, as heart disease has touched the lives of many within our families and ...
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Concept approved for new 1,000+ unit neighbourhood in west Lethbridge
We will likely see a brand new neighbourhood being created on the west side over the next several years.Lethbridge City Council has approved the land use concept for the University of Lethbridge South Campus Lands.It is a 100-acre property next to the university's Community Sports Stadium.Michael Kelly, CEO of the Univ...
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Alberta

Energy
Alberta to maintain industrial carbon price freeze for 2026, leaving Ottawa to act
The Alberta government says it will maintain a frozen industrial carbon tax price for 2026, putting the province at odds with federal rules.Premier Danielle Smith announced the freeze in May, saying Alberta's price would stay at $95 per tonne of emissions for an indefinite period of time.Alberta was set to increase the...
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Provincial Politics
Educational assistants won't take on Alberta teachers' work in possible strike; union
The union for educational assistants in Alberta, fresh off its own strike, says its members won't step in to help schools if teachers walk off the job next month.Canadian Union of Public Employees Alberta president Raj Uppal says members are being advised to refuse teachers' work and to get union officials to clarify a...
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Mandate Letter
Alberta's Smith directs her minister to secure provincial control over immigration
Premier Danielle Smith is directing her jobs minister to use all legal means possible to give Alberta more control over immigration.In a new mandate letter given to Joseph Schow, Smith says Alberta needs more control over immigration to ensure the province sees sustainable levels of newcomers.The letter says Canadian c...
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Provincial Politics
Premier Smith's Alberta Next panel town hall tour arrives in Grande Prairie
Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel is in Grande Prairie tonight to brainstorm potential referendum questions aimed at wrenching more political control from Ottawa.The panel has been greeted by supportive crowds throughout its summer town hall tour around the province.It has often been cheered on in its proposa...
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Canada

Think tank calls on Ottawa to abandon single-payer pharmacare model
OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of research at the C.D. Howe Institute, says in a new rep...
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Canada's 2030 emissions target is out of reach after progress stalled in 2024: report
OTTAWA - Canada's short-term targets for reducing its emissions are now out of reach after emission levels remained unchanged last year, and recent federal policies have set back Canada's progress, Canada's leading climate policy research organization ...
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In the news today: Carney in Mexico, protesting Ottawa's agenda, B.C. lichen at risk
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada, Mexico to sign partnership agreement Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Mexican President Claudia Shein...
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Canada, Mexico to sign strategic partnership agreement
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during his visit to Mexico, which starts today. Carney departed Ottawa for Mexico City shortly after 8 a.m. The agreement...
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Lichen, logging, land rights: Complex forces play out in fate of ancient B.C. forest
A shaggy, cool-green lichen hangs from the trunk of a tree in a forest on northeastern Vancouver Island, growing on the bark like coral on a rocky sea floor. Lichenologist Trevor Goward has named it oldgrowth specklebelly, and while the slow-growing li...
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Montreal mayor sees opening of UN-Habitat office as part of her political legacy
MONTREAL - Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her nearly eight years in office. Almost three years after...
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