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Lethbridge and Area

Medicine Hat residents charged after police find firearms, illegal drugs
A pair of Medicine Hat residents are facing charges after police found two restricted firearms, money and illegal drugs at a North Flats residence.The Medicine Hat Police Service searched a residence in the 900 block of Fifth Street Southeast on Sunday.Along with the firearms and Canadian cash, officers claim to have f...
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Lethbridge to host 2025 Senior AA Men's Provincial Hockey Championships
A provincial hockey tournament is coming to Lethbridge in 2025.On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, Hockey Alberta announced that the Senior AA Men's Provincial Championships will be held again after a year off in 2024.Along with that announcement, they also revealed that Lethbridge will be the host.The tournament will incl...
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Medicine Hat receives regulatory approval to purchase solar farm project
The City of Medicine Hat will move ahead with the purchase of a massive solar farm project after receiving regulatory approval Tuesday from a provincial authority.The Alberta Utilities Commission also signed off in the city's plan to build up to 75 megawatts worth of solar panels in a first phase of the Saamis Solar Pa...
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Lethbridge Police charge five in identity fraud investigation
Lethbridge Police have charged five members of a group following a lengthy investigation into alleged fraudulent activity throughout the province. According to LPS, the investigation was launched in the fall of 2023 after the search of a north Lethbridge residence which police say led to the seizure of hundreds of forg...
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Alberta

Alberta creating new social support program for people with disabilities able to work
Alberta's government says it's looking to help people with disabilities join and stay in the workforce without losing access to their existing benefits and governmental supports.To do this, the government plans to launch a new social assistance regime, the Alberta Disability Assistance Program, in 2026.Community and So...
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Provincial Politics
Third-party advertiser Take Back Alberta fined more than $100K by Elections Alberta
Take Back Alberta, the third-party advertiser that made headlines for its role in the high-profile ouster of former premier Jason Kenney, has been fined more than $100,000 by Elections Alberta.The body that oversees provincial election spending and voting rules has fined Take Back Alberta, and its founder David Parker,...
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DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE MONTH
Provincial budget release scheduled for Feb. 27
The Government of Alberta has scheduled the release of Budget 2025 for Thursday, Feb. 27, at the start of the new spring legislative session. The government says that over 2023 and 2024, Alberta's population grew at an unprecedented rate, putting strain on many of the province's public services. Budget 2025 is said to ...
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FEB. 5
Bundle up for Winter Walk Day
Bundle up and get active this Winter Walk Day, on Feb. 5, to help promote movement even in the province's coldest months. Since 2006, on the first Wednesday of February, Albertans have donned their toques and boots to head out on a 15-minute walk either as an individual, with friends or family, or with classmates or co...
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Canada

U.S. tariff threat: Quebec furniture company lays off 115 workers after sales drop
MONTREAL - A Quebec furniture manufacturer says the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods has forced it to lay off 115 people in the province. South Shore Furniture says it's laying off 97 people at its headquarters and factory in Ste-Croix, Que., southwest of Quebec City, and another 18 people at its operations in ...
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Don't take out anger at Trump by booing U.S. peewee hockey players: Quebec officials
MONTREAL - Quebec City officials are reminding the public not to boo the 11- and 12-year-old American hockey players who will be in town for a prestigious international peewee tournament that begins next week. Mayor Bruno Marchand noted that some fans have been booing the American anthem at NHL and NBA games ever since...
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Gun suspect arrested in Regina after four found dead on Saskatchewan First Nation
REGINA - Police have arrested a man accused of pointing a gun at people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan a few hours after four people were found dead in a home on another reserve. RCMP say Keagan Panipekeesick was arrested early this morning in Regina. Officers were searching for the 29-year-old after they r...
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Mark Carney pledges to beat Trudeau's target date for meeting NATO spending benchmark
OTTAWA - Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney says he would reach Canada's NATO defence spending target by the end of the decade - two years ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's schedule. Carney made the commitment this morning at a campaign event in Windsor, Ont., where he also promised a tax cut for the middl...
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International grads more likely to hold jobs below their education levels: StatCan
OTTAWA - International students who graduated from Canadian schools are more likely to be underemployed than their Canadian peers and many are living with lower incomes as a result. Statistics Canada's national graduates survey looked at the employment rate of more than 83,000 international students who graduated in 20...
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Prime Minister Trudeau will host a Canada-U.S. summit amid threat of Trump tariffs
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a Canada-U.S. economic summit in Toronto on Friday, days after President Donald Trump said he would hold off on his threatened tariffs against Canada for a month. The Prime Minister's Office says the event will assemble Canadian trade and business leaders, along with org...
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