He is not sure whether Senator Mike Duffy should be resigning but he is sure there are other instances of inappropriate expense claims that the media chooses to ignore because it’s left wing and shows bias, says
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Rail worker taken to hospital after collision earlier released with no injuries. #medhat At least one crew member was taken to hospital following a collision involving two trains east of Medicine Hat Saturday afternoon.Around 1:30 p.m., Redcliff RCMP, Cypress County Fire Department and Canadian Pacific Rail responded to a collision between a westbound and eastbound freight train at Highway 41 North and the eastbound Trans-Canada Highway about seven ... Read More »
19 hours agoRowdy people: Consider this your one warning. The Medicine Hat Police Service will be heavily enforcing the region this Victoria Day long weekend, with extra officers doing their part to ensure the city is safe. “We’ll definitely... Read More »
2 days agoMedicine Hat may be famous for the world’s largest teepee but the city also is home to the Guinness World Record Holder for the largest chess board, which opened for its eighth season Friday afternoon at the... Read More »
2 days agoTanner Nagel likes being just the modest winner. Like he has for a number of years, the 19-year-old racer went down to Las Vegas on a family trip to attend the Mopars at the Strip event at... Read More »
2 days agoA player and a coach from the Crescent Height High School Vikings football departed Friday to Calgary to take part in the Senior Bowl, which is the Alberta High School all-star game for senior players. Scott Hannah,... Read More »
2 days agoThe annual Victoria Day Open golf tournament returns for the 58th year this weekend. The tournament, sponsored by Cancarb, gets underway Saturday at the Medicine Hat Golf and Country Club, and runs all weekend, concluding on Monday... Read More »
2 days agoThis season of Monday Night at the Movies wraps next week with “Midnight’s Children.” Co-written by Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta and based on Rushdie’s novel, the film explores a pivotal time in India’s history. The film... Read More »
2 days agoCalling Canadians dull and monotone, Fandango says he’s going to bring some excitement to Medicine Hat on May 26. “I’m going to bring a little bit of personality, a little bit of colour and a little bit of charisma, because I know a lot of the Canadian people are kind of dull, right?” Fandango said last ... Read More »
3 days agoAs tight-knit a group as you can find, Medicine Hat’s folk music community is coming together to help a fellow folkie from Edmonton.Bill Werthmann, who runs Edmonton’s Northern Lights Folk Club, has embarked on a cross-country trek known... Read More »
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I blame management for this incident. middle management because of the way they are treating the employees. Which in tu... Read More »
That is a very funny compilation of silly rants. It is hard to believe that some of them are true though.... Read More »
While we are at it, let's rename Remembrance Day and Christmas Day to honor other groups. Is there not more important th... Read More »
Alex....if the province is trully transparent then why do we need a cabinet position for it? Really? For two obvious rea... Read More »Thanks to the B.C. election, there has been lots of discussion about the failure of political polls to predict the outcome . . . or to even come close. Pollsters booted the last several elections they called, including Alberta’s (in a big way), Quebec’s (a little less so) and the U.S. election ... Read More »
2 days agoThe thing about transparency — whether it’s regarding a window or government body — is that you don’t have to say something can clearly be seen. When it comes to transparency in Canadian politics, the word has become a paradox. The more governments state they are transparent, the less so they become. ... Read More »
2 days agoWho would have guessed that a Robin Hood existed in the prime ,inister’s inner circle.It has now been revealed Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, gave Senator Mike Duffy the $90,000 he needed to return to taxpayers after being caught inappropriately claiming his P.E.I. home as his primary residence.At the time ... Read More »
3 days agoI have a possible reason that the pollsters were dead wrong on the B.C. election. Maybe it’s because they phone people during the supper hour to glean free information so that they in turn can sell that info for a tidy profit? Personally I detest their actions to the extent that I ... Read More »
2 days agoScience has come a long way in the past 50 years. Too bad TV programming hasn’t kept up. It seems the only things humans are interested in are guns and the crime that goes along with the guns. The way things are going in the United States, anarchy could break out at ... Read More »
3 days agoAt the May 6 city council meeting there was discussion of some awkward intersections of local streets and the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH), one of which is at 16 Street S.W. An alderman claimed that residents of Kensington object to the closure of this intersection as it will isolate their neighbourhood. It would ... Read More »
4 days agoTicked Off Our MP says he is fine with mailout attacks on the Liberals. Please don’t waste money by sending us the garbage. Ticked Off That the general population is losing the battle against terrorism by allowing themselves to become subjects of paranoia. Ticked Off When are the freight engines going to ... Read More »
4 days agoTickled PinkWith the political cartoons by Greg Perry.Tickled PinkWith the columns by Alex McCuaig; wisdom, insight and the courage to write good stuff.Ticked OffAll of a sudden three businesses come forward with “safety concerns” about the Box Springs location? Where were they long before this when discussions started ages ago? Thiscity councilneeds ... Read More »
6 days agoTicked OffAre people in B.C. nuts? They don’t have any Conservatives out there. I hope when they get in trouble they don’t want us Albertans to bail them out.Ticked OffIf someone gets injured on a construction site, they shut the site down for a week. If a hockey player gets seriously injured, ... Read More »
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