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gslade@medicinehatnews.com  @MHNGillianSlade The water level in Seven Persons Creek is expected to rise enough to cause flooding in low lying areas by Thursday, affecting three local golf courses. St. Mary’s River Irrigation District began releasing water from Murray Dam, near Seven Persons, into Seven Persons Creek at about 1 p.m. Wednesday. The flow began ... Read More »

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant If you’re happy a major marijuana grower will set up in northwest Medicine Hat, imagine the delight of the owner of the barbecue joint just down the street. “It’s absolutely huge for us,” said Jeff Brewster, a co-owner of Skinny’s Smoke House, which opened its new location in the somewhat sparse Box Springs ... Read More »

Medicine Hat News After a seemingly long drought, new industrial investment inside Medicine Hat’s city limits could total $250 million over the next 18 months. Looking to the larger region and outward on the calendar, the total could be closer to $1 billion. After the announcement of a $130-million cannabis production facility on Monday, Mayor ... Read More »

Medicine Hat News Five Medicine Hat swimmers were in Victoria this past weekend for a very big meet. The Western Canadian Championships gave Anna Nozewski and Aaron Kruger of the Medicine Hat Waves, and Delrae Vetter, Berlin Mastel and Emily Schlenker of the Alberta Marlin Aquatic Club a chance to test themselves against some of ... Read More »

Medicine Hat News With 96 competitors in the Level 6 girls division at provincials, any number of tiny factors could’ve sent a contender spilling out of contention. One step the wrong way on floor. One missed element on bars. One loss of balance on the beam. Salta’s Olivia Chenard pretty much experienced none of those ... Read More »

rmccracken@medicinehatnews.com @MHNMcCracken The Crescent Heights Vikings rode a monster first inning to a 14-4 victory on Wednesday at Athletic Park. The Vikings sent 12 batters to the plate in the opening frame while bringing eight around to leave the Erle Rivers Comets in an insurmountable deficit before cruising to a lopsided six-inning victory. “It’s really ... Read More »

It seems every year, just like the downtown core, the Canalta Centre becomes the hot topic around the city. All is quiet until the Medicine Hat Tigers playoff games, and then social media starts to hone in on the Canalta Centre and attack. This year it was especially bad — and rightfully so. The Tabbies ... Read More »

My introduction to the complex and emotional world of adverse events in health care occurred in 2001 when I chaired a committee to review an inquest report into the tragic deaths of 12 infants in a paediatric surgery program in Manitoba. Justice Murray Sinclair, who conducted the inquest, had concluded that at least five of ... Read More »

I grew up in an immigrant family, culturally isolated. I was also the product of ‘the middle child syndrome’, often feeling left out, overlooked, ignored. It left me painfully shy, socially awkward, and obsessively introverted. To make things just a little worse, my family attended a German Baptist church in our neighbourhood. Everyone spoke German, ... Read More »

When the NDP took power in Alberta Rachel Notley was presented with a wonderful opportunity to move Alberta away from the whimsies of the oil sector. She was given the ability to turn Alberta into a technological and industrial powerhouse, a province that would have made all Canadians, especially Albertans, very proud. But no, she ... Read More »

War is not the solution to the crisis in Syria, but neither is inaction. Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has rightly stated that the ideal solution would be to stop the funding and arming of extremists that promote regime overthrow. We need to stop pretending that these bombings carried ... Read More »

Re: Gregory Cote’s argument on equalization payments. Mr. Cote is correct in the fact the federal government collects taxes and accounts for it as a general revenue line item. All politicians love this system because it allows them to spend money according to their party priorities rather than use directed taxes which would go to ... Read More »