November 29th, 2025

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bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Couns. Chris Hellman, Brain Varga and Stuart Young pressed city staff Thursday for more information on how much it costs to operate and provide current levels of service to residents, while seeking to keep tax increases to a minimum. Questions arose during a city committee presentation detailing internal efforts to reclassify positions, reduce operating

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Local News

  • Advocate report calls for improved child intervention assessments

    newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com A report released Thursday from the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate highlighted the importance of adequate child intervention assessments. The report, titled Calling for Change: Investigative Reviews Report 2024-2025, looked at 69 investigative reviews that took place between April 1, 2024 and Mar. 31, 2025. The reviews were conducted to investigate the ... Read More »

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  • Sources suggest UCP could repeal Recall Act next week

    newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Sources suggest the government may amend, or altogether repeal its own Recall Act next week in response to 14 recall drives affecting only UCP MLAs. In response to questions about the recall drive targeting Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides in the assembly last week, Smith appeared confident that her MLAs record of service would speak ... Read More »

    36 mins ago
  • Mustard Seed ramps up efforts to support local vulnerable population during winter; seeking mens boots and winter gloves

    bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Brendan Miller bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Following the first major snowfall event in Medicine Hat no official details have been released by the city in regards to providing aid to its vulnerable population following a pulled application by the Mustard Seed to develop a permanent shelter and holistic support centre on the city’s outskirts. Despite the lack ... Read More »

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Local Sports

  • Davidson building confidence as debut season with Tigers continues on

    jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Brick by brick is an album from American singer Iggy Pop. It’s also a solid strategy for building confidence, bit by bit. It’s been a process of stacking success for Medicine Hat Tigers forward Noah Davidson as he’s getting acclimated in his first WHL season. The 17-year-old Irvine, Calif. product snapped a 10-game goal-less ... Read More »

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  • Medicine Hat Firefit Team Iron Horse secures national title, sets new record

    sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat Firefit Team Iron Horse represented the community at the national championships in September, capturing a championship and setting a new record. The Firefit team competed at the National Firefit Championship Finals, held in St. Catharines, Ont. from Sept. 10-14. Steven Seymour, Jason Labash and Michael Arnold were crowned national Firefit champions ... Read More »

    36 mins ago
  • Desjardins, Ruck relish experience at CHL USA Prospects Challenge

    jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The CHL USA Prospects Challenge provided NHL scouts an opportunity to learn more about the CHL’s top draft-eligible players. It also gave those players an opportunity to pick up some lessons of their own. The second rendition of the two-game series saw the U.S. NTDP capture the challenge crown for the first time, winning ... Read More »

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Opinions

  • Economics 101: Artificial Intelligence bubble?

    We receive a lot of questions about Artificial Intelligence focused companies. Specifically, whether the U.S. stock market is in an AI bubble akin to what occurred in the late 1990’s with the dotcom bubble. Our answer is nuanced as one never knows with 100% certainty if they’re in an investment bubble until after the bubble ... Read More »

    36 mins ago
  • Let’s Chat: The answer is simple

    It seems every time I scroll through social media, somebody somewhere has posted that they have lost their cat or they have a wandering cat living in their yard. A little piece of my heart is broken every time a person post that it has been days or even weeks and their cat has not ... Read More »

    3 days ago
  • Noteworthy: An increase in highway speed limit can only mean an increase in highway speeding

    A slight case of driver inattention while travelling at 100 km/h might not cause a collision with a fellow driver who happens to pull onto a highway without looking, but chances of that collision would be increased if that vehicle were going 110 km/h or 120. Now, Alberta’s minister of highways, Devin Dreeshen, is floating ... Read More »

    3 days ago

Letters to The Editor

  • Letter: We have the space, not the staff; two-tier health care will only make things worse

    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 »

    3 days ago
  • Letter: Disinformation – Not a pathway to fairly negotiated settlement

    * 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 »

    1 week ago
  • Letter: Very thankful for reliable natural gas

    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 »

    1 week ago


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