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asmith@medicinehatnews.com The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour is returning to Medicine Hat next year and tickets are available. In partnership with Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre and sponsored by Cancarb, the Medicine Hat Public Library will once again present the festival, which will feature unique adventure film screenings held at the Esplanade from ... Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com Cypress County is still taking nominations for Farm Family of the year through to Dec. 12. The BMO Bank of Montreal Farm Family Awards are given annually to southern Alberta farm families that the community feels best represent the value of family farms both within rural communities and on a grander stage, both in ... Read More »

zmason@medicinehatnews.com The UCP government has cancelled the procurement of two chartered surgical facilities this week, including the one planned for Lethbridge. The news of the cancellations was unveiled during question period in Tuesday afternoon’s legislative session. Minister of Hospital and Surgical Services Matt Jones informed legislature of the cancellations in response to a question about ... Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb There’s been a lot of bus rides in Misha Volotovskii’s time in the WHL. The 20-year-old Medicine Hat Tigers forward has travelled across Western Canada and the U.S. throughout his five-year career in the WHL and reached a milestone in the last few games. Volotovskii played in his 250th WHL game on Nov. 29 ... Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The largest tournament in the city got underway Friday, the first of three days of ringette action. The Medicine Hat Ringette Association’s Ed Horvath Invitational tournament kicked off Friday with 38 teams from Alberta and Saskatchewan facing off in the three-day, 94-game tournament being played out across the city at the Big Marble Go ... Read More »

Medicine Hat News The Medicine Hat Tigers played the comeback card Friday night in Moose Jaw. They trailed the Warriors 2-0 after 20 minutes before scoring three straight to win 4-3 in overtime on captain Bryce Pickford’s second goal of the night. The win is the sixth in a row for the Tigers who have ... Read More »

sschmidt@medicinehatnews.com After multiple sources suggested last week the UCP government was planning to either amend or repeal altogether its own Recall Act in response to a number of MLAs now facing petitions, Justice Minister Mickey Amery came out to deny it. There won’t be changes made this session, he says, but the door has been ... Read More »

Premier Danielle Smith’s lovefest with Prime Minister Mark Carney leading to last week’s memorandum of understanding regarding pipeline construction from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast apparently didn’t go over well with much of the party faithful at the weekend’s AGM of the United Conservative Party. As the premier talked to the crowd in Edmonton about ... Read More »

While in Toronto for a work-related conference, I attended a presentation that talked about loneliness and its impact on Canadians. According to the YMCA Connections Snapshot from August 2025, “Only 4 in 10 Canadians surveyed feel a sense of connection and belonging in their community.” They go on to say ur young people are reporting ... Read More »

Dear editor, The Alberta Government is trying to sell us a Pig in a Poke with its “Surgical Initiatives” and “Urgent Care Centres.” Our hospitals already have underused surgical suites because of not enough medical staff. Dr. Paul Parks (previous president of the Alberta Medical Association and Medicine Hat ER Physician) has said the Medicine ... Read More »

* Submitted before Wednesday’s strike announcement Dear editor, As Alberta inches closer to another union versus government negotiation, the UCP “tactical misinformation machine” is revving up and shifting to high gear. I speak of course of the looming dispute between AUPE’s nursing care union and the Alberta government, including the erroneous statements made by Finance ... Read More »

Dear editor, Quebec has abundant hydro power (electricity) and Alberta has abundant natural gas. During a recent relatively minor snow storm, electric power was out in large areas of Quebec. Many homes and businesses lost electric power. Forty-six thousand homes were still without power a few days later. Heating, refrigerators, deep freezers, lighting etc. were ... Read More »