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City sending out property assessment notices this week
LETHBRIDGE, AB - It is every property owner's favorite time of the year - assessment time.The City of Lethbridge says property assessment notices were mailed out Wednesday to all residential and comme...
Jan 5, 2022
US, Germany say Russia poses urgent challenge to stability
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States and Germany said Wednesday that Russia's military buildup near Ukraine's border poses an "immediate and urgent challenge" to European security and that any interven...
Jan 5, 2022
Air Transat to deny boarding to passengers from Sunwing party flight to Mexico
MONTREAL - Air Transat says passengers who were partying maskless on a recent Sunwing flight from Montreal to Mexico will not be allowed on its planes as they attempt to return to Canada. The airline ...
Jan 5, 2022
Top doctor says Nunavut's COVID-19 outbreak 'testing the limits' of capacity
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Cases of COVID-19 continue to rise across Nunavut, with confirmed or presumptive cases in 14 of the territory's 25 communities. There are 231 active cases of COVID-19 in Nunavut, mo...
Jan 5, 2022
Oilers place captain McDavid in COVID-19 protocol ahead of game with Maple Leafs
TORONTO - The Oilers announced that captain Connor McDavid, forward Derek Ryan and defenceman Tyson Barrie have entered the NHL's COVID-19 protocol hours before Edmonton was scheduled to face the Mapl...
Jan 5, 2022
Bob Bradley brings experience, enthusiasm and hope to Toronto FC
TORONTO - Bob Bradley wasted little time putting down roots after being named Toronto FC's head coach and sporting director. Officially hired Nov. 24, Bradley and Lindsay - his wife of 35 years - took...
Jan 5, 2022
NHL Notebook: A look at some of the stories to watch in 2022
NHL life in 2021 - like regular life - was dominated by COVID-19. The league manoeuvred, contorted and pivoted to play a 56-game campaign that culminated in July with the Tampa Bay Lightning winning t...
Jan 5, 2022
Governor pardons Plessy, of ‘separate but equal’ ruling
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 to protest racial segregati...
Jan 5, 2022
Some overloaded Quebec health-care facilities forced to cancel staff vacations
MONTREAL - Several Quebec health authorities are being forced to cancel employee vacations as the province struggles with staff shortages and rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, and some workers fear th...
Jan 5, 2022
City looking for input on snow and street sweeping programs
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Could the City of Lethbridge's street clearing initiatives use some work? Now is your time to let them know.Until February 13, the municipal government is looking for feedback on snow...
Jan 5, 2022