Lethbridge

During the proceedings of a recent criminal case here in Lethbridge, it became apparent that facilities at Lethbridge Correctional Centre are inadequate for transgender inmates. Last Wednesday, Judge Jerry LeGrandeur released his sentencing judgement regarding a local trans woman, known only as “HF’ in the document, who had been convicted…

Last month, Canada 338 updated their electoral projections for Alberta, and they’re showing a lead for the NDP in both Lethbridge ridings. Lethbridge-West In Lethbridge-West, Canada 338 projects the NDP winning about 54.7% of the vote. Shannon Phillips, the incumbent in the riding, already represents the party here.

Last week, the Alberta government announced that Alberta Sheriffs shut down a drug house in Lethbridge. The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit of the Alberta Sheriffs obtained a court order that took effect at noon on 5 November. …

Yesterday, Alberta Health Services announced through a media release on their website that the Lethbridge Public Safety Communications Centre will be consolidated into one of AHS’s 3 centralized dispatch locations. When the AHS EMS provincial dispatch system started in 2009, four communities retained their own municipally-run dispatch centres: Calgary, Lethbridge…

Jason Kenney, Rick Wilson, Alberta’s Indigenous relations minister, and Jason Luan, Alberta’s associate minister of mental health and addictions, were on Kainai Nation’s reserve lands over the weekend to announce two more recovery centres. One of the communities will be on the reserve, and the other will be at an…

Yesterday, I received the following message from someone who works in Alberta Health Services’ South Zone: It seems as though Alberta Health Services held a town hall yesterday morning for employees in the South Zone. Over 400 attended. In that meeting, one of the things mentioned was that since Jason…

Yesterday, Jason Luan, the associate minister of mental health and addictions for Alberta, announced that the provincial government was ending its funding agreement with ARCHES Lethbridge. The funding agreement allowed ARCHES to run its supervised consumption site-the busiest, most comprehensive site in Canada, and possibly the busiest in the world-and…

Last week, Nathan Neudorf-the UCP MLA for Lethbridge-East-wrote an editorial in the Lethbridge Herald. In it, he highlighted several recent project funding announcements. I thought I’d go through each of them to fill in a few things that he left out. Last week, I had the honour of joining Alberta’s…