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Lethbridge and Area

Canes announce roster ahead of Friday's regular season home opener
The Lethbridge Hurricanes have finalized their roster for the 2025-26 regular season.The 23-man roster includes 14 forwards, seven defencemen, and two goaltenders. They will be led by the team's new leadership group, consisting of captain Logan Wormald and alternate captains Shane Smith, Matteo Fabrizi and Luke Cozens....
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Fort Macleod emergency department temporarily closed
For a period of 12 hours, residents of Fort Macleod will need to look elsewhere if they need emergency medical care.Alberta Health Services says the emergency department at the Fort Macleod Health Centre closed at 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, and is scheduled to reopen at 7:00 p.m.This is due to an unexpected short...
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$47K worth of gold chains stolen from Lethbridge store
Two people have been charged in connection with a pair of jewelry store thefts.The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says a man and a woman broke into Paris Jewelers at Park Place Mall at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 23, 2025.Video surveillance reportedly shows the man smashing a window to gain entry.Polic...
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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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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

Nova Scotia's Donald Oliver, first Black man named to Senate, dies at 86
HALIFAX - Donald Oliver, the first Black man appointed to the Senate of Canada, has died at the age of 86. Oliver's family in Nova Scotia confirmed the retired senator died Wednesday from a chronic heart condition. He served for 23 years in the upper h...
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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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