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 Four Mayors demand investigation into integrated EMS dispatch

Four Mayors demand investigation into integrated EMS dispatch

Bridge City News February 1, 2021

The Mayors of Red Deer, Calgary, Lethbridge and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo are asking for an independent investigation into the province's new integrated EMS system, noting technical issues and failures.Read More

 Vaccines for meat processing plant workers

Vaccines for meat processing plant workers

Bridge City News January 28, 2021

The president of the union which represents Cargill Meat in High River and JBS Canada in Brooks says the province isn’t doing enough to protect essential workers.Read More

 Firefighter cancer ‘epidemic’ in local communities

Firefighter cancer ‘epidemic’ in local communities

Bridge City News January 26, 2021

For the first time Canada took part in Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month. A 2018 study says that cancer is the leading cause of death in Canadian Firefighters. These brave souls and their families want their communities Read More

 Family of COVID-19 deceased man raising funds to bring body home to southern Alberta

Family of COVID-19 deceased man raising funds to bring body

Bridge City News January 23, 2021

Waylon Blood grew up in Southern Alberta, and tragically passed away from COVID-19 while working in Tucson, Arizona. The cost to transport his body back to southern Alberta so he can be laid to rest Read More

 911 EMS dispatch to centralize Jan 12

911 EMS dispatch to centralize Jan 12

Bridge City News January 12, 2021

Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman says attempts to connect with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, and Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro about integrated EMS systems have fallen on deaf ears. Spearman, alongside mayors of Calgary, Red Deer, Read More

 SASHA house thankful for available grants

SASHA house thankful for available grants

Bridge City News December 23, 2020

SASHA house in Lethbridge helps many in the community struggling with mental health and addiction. Along with programming, they are also host to a number of long and short term beds. Organizers say they are Read More

 Parkinson Association Alberta receives $10,000 in federal funding

Parkinson Association Alberta receives $10,000 in federal funding

Bridge City News December 22, 2020

The federal government invested thousands of dollars into southern Alberta for the second round of Emergency Support funding. Ten nonprofits in the region including Streets Alive and Woods homes were supplied with funding. As Ainsley Read More

 More COVID Restrictions to be Implemented Immediately and additional Measures this Sunday

More COVID Restrictions to be Implemented Immediately and additional Measures

Jeannette Rocher December 9, 2020

Tuesday afternoon Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced further restrictions due to COVID-19 (to be in place for four weeks).Read More

 Lethbridge Recovery College highlights pet therapy

Lethbridge Recovery College highlights pet therapy

Bridge City News December 4, 2020

Recovering from addiction is a complex issue. Many say it takes hard work, a balanced lifestyle, and emotional support. But, who says that support needs to come from a human being? The Recovery College in Read More

 OCD patients worry about contamination during pandemic

OCD patients worry about contamination during pandemic

Bridge City News December 2, 2020

Many people describe obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD as something that takes over your life. If you combine those feelings of distress with a pandemic, even more challenges arise. Video journalist, Ainsley O'Riley discovered that Read More

 Premier says more non-urgent surgeries could be cancelled due to pandemic

Premier says more non-urgent surgeries could be cancelled due to

Jeannette Rocher December 1, 2020

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the widespread cancellation of more non-urgent surgeries may be necessary because the largest hospitals in the province are filling up with COVID-19 cases. Kenney says hospitals are at 91 percent capacity Read More

 Mental Health Association says to reach out during isolation

Mental Health Association says to reach out during isolation

Bridge City News November 26, 2020

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was quoted at Tuesday's media conference saying that no indoor social gatherings are permitted, ‘period’. However, Kenney was empathetic to those struggling with mental health issues. David Gabert of the Canadian Read More

 COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Alberta by early 2021

COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Alberta by early 2021

Bridge City News November 21, 2020

Alberta expects around 680,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to arrive in January. If all goes according to plan, the province would receive doses from pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer and Moderna. Video journalist Ainsley O’Riley hit the streets Read More

 Coaldale business owners weigh in on wearing masks

Coaldale business owners weigh in on wearing masks

Bridge City News November 18, 2020

Last month the town of Coaldale voted against a mandatory mask bylaw after the community disagreed that it needed one. The town said they wanted to instead focus on education opposed to enforcement. Video journalist, Read More

 Mouldy Melcor Centre in downtown Lethbridge puts workers at risk

Mouldy Melcor Centre in downtown Lethbridge puts workers at risk

Jeannette Rocher October 7, 2020

The Government of Alberta and Alberta Health Services employees who work at the Melcor Centre in downtown Lethbridge, have been notified by their union that high levels of mould have been detected in the Melcor Read More

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