Take the Lethbridge News now on the go. Anywhere. Find the Daily with LNN. Unspotify Apple Podcasts or sound flag.
Or listen at LethbridgeNewsNow.com. Hi, David O'Pinko here, and welcome to the Daily with Lethbridge News now for July 29th, 2021. If you want to learn more about any of these stories, download the Lethbridge News Now mobile app, or check us out on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Following a carjacking in Lethbridge two years ago, a man has been found guilty on seven charges.
On October 2019, Corey Ray Williams held a machete to a man's throat, and he forced the man to drive him to an ATM in the supervised consumption site, then out to the blood reserve. The driver was told to get out of the vehicle as Williams tried to run him over. Williams later ditched the vehicle and formed a clown and stole another one. He was arrested in Lethbridge the following day.
A date for sentencing has not yet been set. Students in Alberta at any level will not have to provide proof of getting their COVID-19 vaccines. Statements from the Ministries of Education and Advanced Education have confirmed this to LNN. Lethbridge College will not require masks or distancing this fall, while the UofL says they'll only be mandatory in some circumstances.
But since youths under the age of 12 are not eligible for immunization yet, the Lethbridge School Division says some protocols like quarantining and contact tracing, might still be necessary. The Blood Tribe is negotiating a top gas $17.6 million settlement with Ottawa. Chief Roy Fox said in 2018, the First Nations submitted a claim to the federal government regarding the wrongful deduction of royalties from the sale of natural gas extracts on reserve lands. The federal government of Canada has a long history of managing and regulating the oil and natural gas resources of the blood tribe.
However, their role as a fiduciary and petroleum manager over the last few years has been questionable. The initial settlement offer from Ottawa was just $2.4 million before the $17.6 million counter was made. The town of Colen L will have to correct two educational signs at the wetlands that contain inaccurate information, given that the new high school will utilize the wetlands for educational purposes. President Clive Schottmeyer says they need to be fixed.
I've got about a dozen. Come and visit the wetlands. Great educational learning opportunity. So if they mean that, it better be accurate.
You can't go around telling people how wonderful an educational opportunity these wetlands are, and then have signs with just blatant scientific errors. It's just wrong. Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon is instructing the town to correct the signs. Mayor Kim Craig says they'll reach out to the external agency that prepared them.
Former cloud emergency crews responded to a possible chemical exposure at a local campground last weekend. On Sunday night, officials attended the Fish and Game Campground following reports of multiple people having trouble breathing. Three were taken to hospital, and a preliminary investigation found there may have been a chemical leak, although a source has not yet been determined. Before stopping in Lethbridge, Premier Jason Kenny toured the Blood Reserve this week.
Kenny checked out different sites like the Blood Tribe Lands Management Paddick and the location of the new Red Crow Community College building, which is still under construction. One of the really cool things I just learned is that there are dozens of apprentices for the trades working on this building, all of them from the Blood Tribe here. So that's a great program because they're learning those skills as well as part of a pro-cologist industrial life program. A video recapping the pre-nearest tour of the Blood Reserve is on our website.
Calgary City Council has approved changes to a deal that will allow work on a new event center and any chalorina to go ahead. The plan complex is to replace the saddle dome where the flames play. The project was put on hold in April due to cost overruns and design concerns. Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation has committed to covering the risk of all cost overruns and will contribute $321 million.
And despite a bumpy start, NBC execs say the Olympics will be profitable, admitting to some bad luck to start the games, including top athletes Simone Biles dropping out of key televised events, a pandemic delay, no crowds and lackluster ratings, Comcast assures the games will make money. NBC Universal had Jeff Shell assured investors on an earnings call today that they won't lose money on the games, but he admitted the ratings have been lower than expected.