Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Tired of old and dead batteries rolling around in your junk drawer?The City of Lethbridge, in partnership with Call2Recycle Canada, has announced the Curbside Battery Collection Program. From Nov. 18-...

Fort Macleod RCMP is seeking public assistance in locating missing Garrett Charles One Owl, 30, who was last seen in Fort Macleod on Sept. 27, 2025.Garrett is described as:5 feet 9 inches tall and 200...

Alberta's education minister says cutting government funding to private schools would only escalate the pressure faced by the province's strained public school system.Demetrios Nicolaides says thousan...

Coaldale town council voted unanimously this week to acknowledge the receipt of a new proposal from the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), as well as agree that any change to the town's cur...

Alberta's teachers are off the job and the head of their union says it's about taking a stand to fix a cycle of underfunding and overcrowding.Jason Schilling says Alberta is failing to adequately fund...

Alberta teachers have started a province-wide strike as of Monday, Oct. 6.Alberta Teachers' Association president Jason Schilling says that, starting on Monday, teachers across Alberta will rise toget...

Schools across Alberta are preparing to close their doors while the province readies a home curriculum for students ahead of Monday's provincewide teachers strike.Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaid...

With days to go until Alberta's teachers are set to strike, their union head said Thursday they will go back to the bargaining table when the province does.Jason Schilling with the Alberta Teachers' A...

A man seeking to become Lethbridge's next mayor says he has a grand vision for what it could become.Michael Petrakis is running in the 2025 municipal elections, set for October 8-20.He told LNN that t...

Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) president Jason Schilling has issued the following statement regarding the Alberta government's response to teachers' impending strike, set to begin Oct. 6, 2025. "...