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Lethbridge and Area

'Fecal bacteria' prompts water quality advisory for Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is advising the public not to swim, wade in or drink the water at a southern Alberta park.They have issued a water quality advisory for Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park, effective immediately and until further notice."Elevated levels of fecal bacteria were detected via testing of the ...
18m ago
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Stolen vehicle recovered in Crowsnest Pass
The RCMP in southern Alberta says it has tracked down a man who allegedly stole a vehicle.At approximately 6:15 p.m. on Saturday, May 24, Crowsnest Pass RCMP was called to a rural property on Highway 22 on reports that a vehicle that had been stolen out of Blairmore earlier that day.The vehicle was reportedly seen leav...
43m ago
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Lethbridge teams dismantle 'high-risk encampment' in coulees
The City of Lethbridge says an encampment that was reportedly causing "high concern due to safety, environmental and structural risks" has been taken down.The Encampment Response Team and Outreach Support partnered with Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services (LFES) to locate the tent structure in the River Va...
1h ago
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Impaired driver arrested, dozens of tickets issued in LPS enforcement blitz
The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says its Traffic Response Unit was kept busy this past weekend.As part of an ongoing enforcement project, officers arrested one impaired driver and issued 46 tickets for traffic violations.The project targets high-risk and nuisance driving behaviours like excessive vehicle noise, rac...
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Alberta

Health/Provincial Politics
Canadian doctors group challenging constitutionality of Alberta transgender law
A group representing Canada's doctors is challenging the constitutionality of Alberta's legislation limiting access to medical treatment for transgender youth, arguing it violates their Charter right to freedom of conscience.The Canadian Medical Association says the court challenge is meant to protect the relationship ...
51m ago
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Alberta teachers almost unanimously favour a potential strike
Teachers across the province could soon be hitting the picket lines.The Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) says 99 per cent of the nearly 38,000 educators who cast ballots have voted to approve the strike authorization.ATA President Jason Schilling says, "Teachers are standing united in demanding respect and reco...
22h ago
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Energy
Levy charged to Alberta oil companies too low to cover orphan well costs; report
A new report is warning the annual levy charged to Alberta oil companies to fund the cleanup of orphaned oil and gas wells remains too low to keep up with the rate of surrendering.The report, written by former University of Calgary Public Interest Law Clinic lawyer Drew Yewchuk, says this year's levy rate combined with...
23h ago
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Agriculture
Provincial government budgets funding for University of Calgary veterinary diagnostic laboratory
The province says it has budgeted $9.5 million over three years to keep what it calls "a full-service veterinary diagnostic laboratory " operating at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.The government says in a release that this will allow the lab to offer more services and keep staff. ...
May 27, 2025
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Canada

Poilievre finds himself a spectator as debate gets underway in Parliament
OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre is in the unfamiliar position of watching the House of Commons as it gets underway today, instead of participating in the debate as he did for more than 20 years. In a press conference held just before the first question period of this new Parliament began today, the Conservative leader told r...
24m ago
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Court orders B.C. to pass law giving French school board expropriation powers
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered the provincial government to pass a law within six months providing the Francophone School Board with powers to expropriate private property to build new French-language schools. The court found that, unlike other school boards in B.C., the Francophone School Board is the ...
24m ago
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Minister says CFIA following due process in B.C. ostrich cull case
OTTAWA - The federal agriculture minister says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is following "due process" as it prepares for a cull of about 400 ostriches at a farm in British Columbia. Asked about U.S. interventions in the case, Heath MacDonald says he doesn't think it's appropriate for a major decision ...
49m ago
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Tenant group pushes for climate protections in report highlighting extreme heat risks
A Canadian tenant advocacy group says nearly half the renters they surveyed don't have air conditioning, as they press for protections from climate-fuelled extreme heat. A report released by ACORN Canada says affordability was cited as the main barrier to access among the 44 per cent of surveyed tenants who don't have ...
1h ago
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Canadian doctors who served in Gaza call for arms embargo, sanctions against Israel
OTTAWA - Canadian medical professionals who treated wounded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are urging Ottawa to stop all military trade with Israel. The doctors say Canada's current restrictions on arms exports to Israel aren't good enough and they allege that Canadian firms are still making military components being u...
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National chief says First Nations growing frustrated with 'fast-track' approach
OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says she doesn't blame First Nations leaders who are voicing frustration with governments promising to fast-track development in their territories in the name of national unity. Some chiefs are even citing the Indigenous rights protest movement Idle No More t...
2h ago
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