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Only one COVID-19 case in Lethbridge remains active
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta is reporting one of the lowest single-day increases in COVID-19 cases since it was declared a pandemic.On Tuesday, June 2, the province confirmed a baker's d...
Jun 02, 2020

Running for Conservative leadership not about ticking boxes: Leslyn Lewis
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis is the only woman in the race, the only immigrant, the only visible minority. Though she could seize on those qualities to differentiate he...
Jun 02, 2020

Turnbull hopes hockey helmet-sticker fundraiser helps heal home province
Blayre Turnbull knows how it feels to lose a parent at a young age. Her mother died of cancer when she was a teenager. So the Canadian women's hockey team forward wanted to help childre...
Jun 02, 2020

Liberals to ask MPs to OK $87 billion in new spending, fuelled by pandemic aid
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are asking parliamentarians to approve $60 billion in spending on a key COVID-19 emergency benefit for workers. The Liberals had expected the Canada Emergency Response Be...
Jun 02, 2020

Ontario mulls collection of race-based COVID-19 data; some argue it's essential
TORONTO - The importance of understanding the role race might play in the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted Ontario to look at regulatory changes to make collection of such data provincewide, the governm...
Jun 02, 2020

Fredette presents risk to public safety, correctional documents suggest
ST-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man found guilty of two murders poses a high risk to public safety as well as a risk of evading authorities, correctional documents filed at his sentencing hearing suggest. ...
Jun 02, 2020

Als head coach Jones says he received death threats as CFL player in Winnipeg
Khari Jones says he received death threats while he was the quarterback of the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers because of his interracial marriage. Jones, entering his second season as the Montreal Alouet...
Jun 02, 2020

Council drawing out decision making
LETHBRIDGE, AB- Decision making appears to have become a labourious process for city council. Councillors continue to toy with motions already presented, which are then placed on a future Council agen...
Jun 02, 2020

High-speed Spanish passenger train hits car on track; 2 dead
MADRID - Two people were killed when a high-speed passenger train with more than 150 people on board hit a car on the tracks in northwest Spain on Tuesday. Emergency services said the locomotive derai...
Jun 02, 2020

Alberta Police Based Victim Service Association sounds alarm on Bill 16
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Alberta Police Based Victim Service Association (APBVSA) is raising some issues on changes being proposed by the provincial government. President Alf Rudd says Bill 16 - Victims o...
Jun 02, 2020