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City officially makes October 4 "Sisters in Spirit Day"
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge City Council has officially and permanently made October 4th "Sisters in Spirit Day" in the city."The Sisters in Spirit Vigil honours the lives of missing and murdered Indi...
Aug 25, 2021
Province discontinuing Alberta Indian Tax Exemption card, but will keep tax exemptions
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Alberta Government is taking a step that it believes will make "life easier" for First Nations peoples in the province.They will be discontinuing the Alberta Indian Tax Exemption ...
Aug 25, 2021
Blinken estimates 1,500 Americans may still await evacuation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that as many as 1,500 Americans may be awaiting evacuation from Afghanistan, a figure that suggests that part of the U.S.-led airlift...
Aug 25, 2021
Canadian Championship pits Whitecaps against Pacific FC in inaugural B.C. derby
VANCOUVER - Winning a Canadian Championship has become a fixation for head coach Marc Dos Santos and his Vancouver Whitecaps. It's been seven years since the club hoisted the Voyagers Cup, and the lac...
Aug 25, 2021
Yukon to end COVID-19 state of emergency, warns of Delta threat
WHITEHORSE - Yukon's premier says the territory will lift its civil state of emergency put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sandy Silver says certain health measures, like mask-wearing and physi...
Aug 25, 2021
Jewish Liberal candidates, Singh face racist attacks during election campaign
OTTAWA - Liberal candidate Anthony Housefather says another 20 of his election posters were found Tuesday with swastikas drawn on them. The posters of Housefather and Liberal candidate Rachel Bendayan...
Aug 25, 2021
Devon Hargreaves running for federal Liberals in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB - "There's very much a hunger for change in our community and people are ready to look at different options. Historically, Lethbridge and Alberta has voted Conservative, and I think the...
Aug 25, 2021
Hurricanes individual game tickets available September 7
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Hurricanes are selling individual game tickets starting on September 7.For the 2021-22 season, fans are allowed back in attendance.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, fans we...
Aug 25, 2021
Promise tracker: What the parties are pitching on the campaign trail
OTTAWA - A running list of specific promises announced by the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Green party since the official start of the federal election campaign on Aug. 15. Liberals Aug. 25: Raise...
Aug 25, 2021
Charleston church shooter's death sentence upheld
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the conviction and sentence of a man on federal death row for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congre...
Aug 25, 2021