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Educated immigrants vital for Canada

Posted on January 25, 2024

Canada should continue to attract highly educated immigrants. That presupposes they are educated in their home countries as children. Our government has committed itself to… Read More »

From the Archives of Western Newspapers

Posted on January 25, 2024

By Samantha Johnson Southern Alberta Newspapers Local Journalism Initiative Reporter January 22, 1886 - The Qu’Appelle Progress The millionaire Mr. A. Morris of New York… Read More »

Believe it or not, there is good news about rising interest rates

Posted on January 25, 2024

The era of continuously declining interest rates, which lasted for 40 years, has come to an end. Businesses and governments now face a new period… Read More »

Evidence gathered by RCMP connect crime scene and Belyea’s home: court hears

Posted on January 25, 2024

Brendan Miller Southern Alberta Newspapers Evidence was linked between Deborah Belyea’s Suffield home and a crime scene in Piapot, Sask. where her husband Alfred’s body… Read More »

Alfred’s blood discovered at Alberta and Saskatchewan crime scenes: DNA analysis

Posted on January 25, 2024

Brendan Miller Southern Alberta Newspapers A DNA collection and forensic expert took to the stand Jan. 12 to share lab results with the court on… Read More »

Hand-drawn map, letter written by accused leads RCMP to husband’s remains

Posted on January 25, 2024

Brendan Miller Southern Alberta Newspapers Three RCMP officers involved in the missing persons investigation of Alfred Belyea took to the witness stand on Jan. 11… Read More »

Hand-drawn map, letter written by accused leads RCMP to husband’s remains

Posted on January 25, 2024

Brendan Miller Southern Alberta Newspapers Three RCMP officers involved in the missing persons investigation of Alfred Belyea took to the witness stand on Jan. 11… Read More »

Final arguments in Belyea murder trial, verdict coming Jan. 29

Posted on January 25, 2024

By Brendan Miller Southern Alberta Newspapers Justice Dallas Miller is expected to give a verdict in the second-degree murder trial for Deborah Belyea, who stands… Read More »

Autopsy report shows Alfred Belyea was stabbed to death

Posted on January 25, 2024

By Brendan Miller Southern Alberta Newspapers Editor’s note: Due to space constraints, the Westwind Weekly News cannot include all coverage of the Belyea trial. For… Read More »

Ag Expo moves to Lethbridge’s new Agri-food Hub and Trade Centre

Posted on January 25, 2024

Southern Alberta Newspapers Tickets for the Lethbridge & District Exhibition’s first Ag Expo at the new Agri-food Hub and Trade Centre are now on sale.… Read More »

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