Commentary

These are the facts: 1. Masks worn in public limit the spread of COVID-19. 2. If I wear a mask to a store and you don’t, I am protecting you and you are endangering me. 3. Even in most restaurants, grocery stores and other businesses, the person serving you is not wearing a mask. 4. [...] Read More »

I am a retired police officer and court agent operating out of Medicine Hat.  I recently became aware of the proposed Alberta Administrative Penalties Act that the UCP are trying to sneak through under Bill 21. I also note that this bill has already had second reading. With this new legislation traffic court would be gone. The police will be able to [...] Read More »

With all this talk from our politicians about eliminating systematic racism, why do they never talk about systematic ableism? Many times have people with disabilities been called or been told; “must be off the meds,” “ready for the padded cell,” “get a job,” retard, lazy, fake, cripple, freak, bum and many more names, with some [...] Read More »

Re:”Long way to go to end systemic racism” – Lutz Perschon Mr. Perschon is so right. Systemic racism is going to continue to exist as long as media, social or otherwise, continues to practise it on a regular basis. And I feel compelled to bring up another stigma that needs to go the way of [...] Read More »

The public complains about the blatant corruption in political leaders. After all, a leader can arrogantly profess to be a continuously unrepentant sinner in one country, and the voters will elect him for his honesty. While in another country, a leader can profess to be an ever repentant continuously reoffending sinner and the voters will [...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke More Summer Scenes in Medicine Hat, Alberta A few more summer visuals from around Medicine Hat, Alberta[...] Read More »

Source: GENEralities Loaves and Fish for Desolate Places—Some Things The LORD Might Be Saying To Us in Gen 32:22-31; Ps 17:1-7, 16; Rom 9:1-5 and Mt 14:13-21 Today Jesus,having heard of John the Baptist’s unjust execution, and saddened, no doubt, withdrew to “a desolate place by himself” (Mt14.13). Even Jesus needed to do that every [...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke Gemini Drive-In in Redcliff, Alberta Closed in 2005, the Gemini Drive-In Theatre in Redcliff, Alberta was a popular hangout for decades. Following the closure much of the site – including the entrance, concession, and speaker posts were removed, however the screen remained intact for years. This monolith was visible from the Trans [...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke So, Editing Luke Is A Print Shop Now? Call it an experiment, going with the flow, temporarily adapting, an attempt to feel busy, a creative exercise, killing time, or all of the above – but if you’ve noticed Editing Luke print sales popping up in your feed over the last few months [...] Read More »

Source: GENEralities What tKoHiL!—Not Really an Homily for the Seventh/Eighth Sunday after Trinity/Pentecost—with reference to Genesis 29.15-28, Psalm 105.1-5, Romans 8.26-39 and Matthew 13.31-33, 44-52 Here’s what Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is like (tKoHiL) tKoHiL a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field (Mt13.31). In other words, it is [...] Read More »

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Typically this week, we’d be diving into plates of pancakes in a parking lot somewhere, sweating it on the midway, watching rodeo, mixing Clamato juice into a cup of suds and enjoying the Medicine Hat Stampede. We’re not, of course, you may have noticed. COVID’s cancelled most everything, it’s seemed. And though the joke [...] Read More »

Part 1 of a two-part series. See Saturday for Part 2. Alberta is facing unprecedented times with the triple threat of a global economic meltdown, a crash in energy prices, and a world-wide pandemic – the extent and duration of which remains to be seen. That is why Alberta’s government is taking bold action to [...] Read More »

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade Gone are the days when people in positions of authority could be trusted and if they did slip up – they resigned. For weeks the WE charity debacle with the federal government has raged on. When it got really hot Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized, once again, for his lack of judgment, again, and [...] Read More »

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade The face mask has just become an outward symbol of something that some people think we can do to protect ourselves but it has turned into a shaming exercise and now even a death. In a small town about 200 km from Toronto, a 73 year-old man was confronted by a store clerk on [...] Read More »

The world is looking for a cure for COVID-19. I truly home that each of you remain safe and healthy until a vaccine is found. Have you ever gotten really sick? How did it affect you? When I was a teenager I got Scarlett fever. It’s not a common ailment but it can be very [...] Read More »

Ticked Off Wondering why the city bothered planting flowers in their curb side flower beds when they aren’t being watered properly. Once the talk of the town but this year have become an eye sore. Tickled Pink Tickled pink with the work that the mayor of Brooks has done to fight COVID- 19. He’s done [...] Read More »

Ticked Off Apparently reducing penalties and removing criminal charges for impaired driving will lead to less DUIs? Really, since when has lesser penalties resulted in lower rates of crime? If you didn’t enforce impaired driving at all, you would reduce DUI charges to zero. Maybe we should try that strategy? If reducing penalties reduces impaired [...] Read More »

Ticked Off The fair deal panel was set to produce a report to the premier by March 31. The deadline was then extended until April 21 but the final report was not submitted until May. Promises made. Promises broken again. Failure. Ticked Off We can go to restaurants and pubs but can not go to [...] Read More »

Medicine Hat News Ticked Off How come the prime minister is giving major dollars to JBS and Cargill so as to provide their workers with PPE? JBS is Brazilian-owned and the Cargill group is one of the richest families in the world. Is the US government backstopping these companies or is Canada just a big [...] Read More »

Ticked Off People need to watch ” The Planet of the Humans” on YouTube. After that try and tell me how green solar panels and wind turbines are. They are not the answer to anything. Tickled Pink If more precise explanation of what “unspecified economic development activities” means, and why, especially at the direction of [...] Read More »