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Federal Election Candidate Questions

As part of ongoing local coverage of the federal election campaign in Bow River, the Taber Times reached out to each candidate and asked them to provide their responses to a series of five questions relevant to the campaign. Candidates were limited in each response to a maximum of 100 words. NDP candidate Louisa Gwin did not respond to our questions by the April 21… Read More »

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Barnes intends to stand up for Canada

By Heather Cameron Taber Times Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Editor’s Note: Barnes missed the original April 14 deadline for election profile features that were published… Read More »

GiveLife Alberta hosting zoom meeting this Friday

By Heather Cameron Taber Times Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As part of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week, from April 20 to 26, GiveLife… Read More »

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Local Sports

Senior’s Rodeo receives additional funding, will run May long weekend

By Cal Braid Taber Times Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Lynn and Glynnis Turcado appeared as a delegation before town council on April 14 with a… Read More »

Rebels baseball team looks for wins after last week

By Cole Parkinson Taber Times Last week, the W.R. Myers Rebels baseball team was back on the diamond for a pair of games in the… Read More »

Latest Blog

From the Archives of Western Newspapers

By Samantha Johnson For Southern Alberta Newspapers April 21, 1879 – Saskatchewan Herald The Herald today shows to what expedients it is sometimes necessary to… Read More »

From the Archives of Western Newspapers

By Samantha Johnson For Southern Alberta Newspapers April 9, 1884 – The Calgary Weekly Herald The first four-wheeled vehicle in this town is under construction.… Read More »

Editorial

Anti-vax conspiracies fuel Canada’s measles crisis

Falling vaccination rates and political silence are fuelling Canada’s growing measles outbreak. Measles, declared eradicated in Canada in 1998, is making a big comeback in… Read More »

Plan to label Trump critics as mentally ill echoes authoritarian regimes

In March 2025, New York psychiatrist Dr. Leon Hoffman wrote a letter to The Guardian reporting that the Minnesota legislature had requested the psychiatric community recognize a… Read More »

Agricultural

SMRID water allocation up 50 per cent from last season

By Cal Braid Taber Times Local Journalism Initiative Reporter After an April 2 annual general meeting, the St. Mary River Irrigation District’s (SMRID) board of… Read More »

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