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Alberta budget Oct. 24; Premier says will have tough touches to fight deficit
EDMONTON -- Premier Jason Kenney says the Alberta budget is to be delivered in just over a month.Kenney says it will be released Oct. 24 and include tough choices to get Alberta's multibillion-dollar ...
Sep 23, 2019 Premier Jason Kenney -- The Canadian Press
Battleground Ontario: Trudeau, Scheer hope Golden Horseshoe proves lucky
OTTAWA - Ontario: A place to take a stand, a place to grow your votes. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Liberal rival Justin Trudeau are each hoping to discover a bountiful crop of support as the...
Sep 23, 2019
Health organizations call for end to promotion of vaping products
OTTAWA -- Federal officials have to act right away to avoid further risks of serious illness from vaping, eight Canadian health organizations said Thursday.The groups are asking for an interim order f...
Sep 21, 2019 Vaping products under scrutiny -- The Canadian Press
SCS paintball shooter receives 6-month sentence
LETHBRIDGE, AB - *UPDATED* A 29-year-old man charged with three counts of assault with a weapon, one count of possession of a weapon dangerous to the public, and one count of mischief - damage under $...
Sep 20, 2019 White Dodge Truck caught on surveillance outside the SCS Aug. 24
Not guilty: David and Collet Stephan acquitted of failing to provide the necessaries of life
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Cheers immediately erupted in a Lethbridge Courtroom Thursday, Sept. 19, where Justice Terry D. Clackson took less than five minutes to find David and Collet Stephan both not guilty o...
Sep 19, 2019 David Stephan hugs lawyer Ingrid Hess outside of the Lethbridge Courthouse Thursday -Photo: Lethbridge News Now
BREAKING: David and Collet Stephan found not guilty
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Update: More details, including interviews and video, can be found through this link - Not guilty: David and Collet Stephan acquitted of failing to provide the necessaries of lifeOrig...
Sep 19, 2019 Collet (left) and David (right) Stephan. (Lethbridge News Now)
Fallout from Trudeau's brownface photo bombshell sure to dominate campaign
OTTAWA - It won't be campaigning as usual for Justin Trudeau today as the Liberal leader grapples with the fallout from a bombshell that landed on the campaign trail. An 18-year-old photo surfaced Wed...
Sep 19, 2019
Provincial Justice Minister listens to rural crime concerns
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Provincial Justice Minister and Solicitor General Doug Schweitzer made stops in Lethbridge, Coaldale and Fort Macleod Tuesday (Sept. 17), as part of his month-long provincial tour to ...
Sep 18, 2019 Provincial Justice Minister and Solicitor General Doug Schweitzer
October 4th to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge City Council has voted unanimously to proclaim October 4th, 2019 as "Sisters in Spirit Day".It coincides with Amnesty International's Sisters in Spirit Vigil, which honours...
Sep 18, 2019 Members of the Reconciliation Advisory Committee and City Hall members. (Lethbridge News Now)
Alberta government rejects pay hike proposal for provincial court judges
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government is rejecting a recommendation to hike salaries for provincial court judges by about eight per cent over four years.Instead, the province says it will keep the salari...
Sep 17, 2019 Judge's gavel - LNN