Tips from Lethbridge police on how to avoid tax scams this season
With March being Fraud Prevention Month, Lethbridge police are reminding residents that tax scams are making the rounds at this time of year.

With March being Fraud Prevention Month, Lethbridge police are reminding residents that tax scams are making the rounds at this time of year.
Seventy-four-year-old Bernardo Puno first came to Lethbridge from the Philippines to visit his family in August of 2019.
Lethbridge Police Service officials confirm a first-degree murder charge has been laid in connection with a 2020 collision that killed the former common-law husband of the accused.
A new study has found hundreds of thousands of surgeries and procedures were postponed in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The online booking portal goes live at 9 a.m. Thursday for the southern region of Alberta, with the start times staggered in two-hour increments for bookings in other regions of the province.
The move by U.S. President Joe Biden to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline in January continues to plague Canadian oil companies, with Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. forced to digest a related $143-million charge on its fourth-quarter results on Thursday.
The Alberta government has budgeted $600,000 this fiscal year to replace the province's paper personal health cards.
Alberta's NDP is calling for an immediate public inquiry into the COVID-19 outbreak at the Olymel pork processing plant in Red Deer.
An oil refinery north of Edmonton has added a four-legged friend to its workforce, but Bolt doesn't eat, bark or even breathe – an advantage, the refinery hopes, in dangerous situations.
Calfrac Well Services Ltd. reported a fourth-quarter profit of $125.9 million, boosted by a gain on the settlement of debt.
One person is dead after a police incident at a hotel in downtown Calgary Wednesday afternoon.
The northern lights are suddenly appearing more active than they've been in over a decade, leading to some spectacular photos.
Reports of residents in Toronto getting bitten and scratched by raccoons are up over 60 per cent.
A 78-year-old former science teacher in Minnesota has spent decades perfecting his 200-foot backyard luge.
Photos show the wild scene inside a Calif. dental office, where a turkey shattered the business' window.
The Canadian housing market continues to surge amid the pandemic. CIBC Markets Senior Economist Royce Mendes weighs in.
Dolly Parton sings a new version of her hit 'Jolene' as she received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Montrealer Carlos Viani shares his 'confinement diaries' – images of how the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping the city.
Health Canada is just "days away" from deciding whether to approve Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
Seeking to stamp out confusion over what should be made of the advice coming from a federal panel of medical experts that second COVID-19 vaccine doses should be delayed by up to four months, federal health officials say that Canadians should expect the advice around the best administration strategy to keep changing.
Countries should be on the lookout for counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines, as they are an easy target for crime networks, according to Interpol.
A new tsunami advisory was issued for parts of New Zealand on Friday after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the Kermadec Islands on the northeast of New Zealand's North Island, just hours after strong tremors rattled much of the country.
A shipment of a quarter million AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia has been blocked from leaving the European Union in the first use of an export control system instituted by the bloc to make sure big pharma companies would respect their contracts.