Letters to the Editor
Letter: Do we live to consume, or consume to live?
By Letter to the Editor on April 10th, 2025
Dear editor, We aren’t people anymore. We are instead labelled “consumers,” so therefore our value depends on how much we consume. We are but cogs in the consumption-for-consumption-sake economic machine. Or are we? Media commentators and so-called social influencers give us this “consumer” label over and over. We must buy more to prevent economic recession. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: An open letter to Premier Danielle Smith from a Medicine Hatter…
By Letter to the Editor on March 27th, 2025
Dear editor, An open letter to Premier Danielle Smith, Please understand that you do not speak for me, nor do you speak for as many Albertans as you claim. You merely speak for those who belong to your party, the UCP. In the last election over 45% of Albertan voters did not mark their ballots ... Read More »
8 responsesLetter: A thanks to those making their voices heard
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2025
Dear editor and Medicine Hat News readers, Over the last several weeks, a group of citizens has been gathering in front of Danielle Smith’s constituency office to voice concerns about UCP decisions that are harming Albertans and our beautiful province. We want to thank all who have joined us and let those who drive by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Smith’s plans are aligning with the U.S., not Canada
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2025
Dear editor, It has become more and more obvious what Premier Danielle Smith and her cronies want, and that is to become either an independent nation (separate from Canada) or become the 51st state and be part of the U.S. dictatorship with the deranged president of that former republic. She has travelled to the U.S. ... Read More »
3 responsesLetter: 51st State, or exploited territory?
By Letter to the Editor on March 20th, 2025
Dear editor, Canadians have clearly rejected joining the United States, recognizing that capitulation to a bully will only escalate further unreasonable demands. However, U.S. President Donald Trump’s predation will not be satiated until we either join them, or domestic pressures alters his obsession. MAGA Republicans must question the long-term political consequences of making Canada a ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: MH Exhibition & Stampede an integral part of the community, of who Hatters are
By Letter to the Editor on March 6th, 2025
Re: Letter to the editor, published Feb. 11 Dear editor, Mr. Elder has presented a very narrow and slanted view to the public regarding the proposed project on the city’s grounds by the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede. It is disheartening for the tens of thousands of Stampede volunteers over the past 130-plus years to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: I thought treating my son against his wishes would save him. Instead, we buried him
By Letter to the Editor on March 1st, 2025
Dear editor, I am horrified but not surprised by the recent (and timely, ie – let’s show them we care, or better yet, let’s distract them from a really big issue currently in the news) announcement in regards to the plan to build two centres in the province to house those under pseudo arrest using ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Be prepared, the U.S. has abandoned the free world
By Letter to the Editor on February 27th, 2025
Dear editor, The line in the sand of truth and consequences has been drawn between the free world and the U.S. thanks to the current president. That president has sided with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Haiti and 10 more countries in voting against a U.N. resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ... Read More »
2 responsesLetter: Donald Trump’s economic, political actions will only worsen drug addiction
By Letter to the Editor on February 27th, 2025
Dear editor, Hey Trump… Many years ago I learned of supply and demand in an Introductory Economics class. Basically, no demand, no supply – read that carefully. If your American people did not demand drugs (fentanyl and crack for example) the supply of such would dwindle. Therefore the problem lies with demand, not supply. Your ... Read More »
2 responsesLetter: Congratulations are in order to a tourney well played
By Letter to the Editor on February 25th, 2025
Dear editor, So very proud of our hockey men. No disparagement against our American neighbours at all. They played their best, we played our best and one of the greatest, if not the greatest, current player in the world scored the winning goal. A special acknowledgement to Sid Crosby, a great ambassador of the game ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Not buying Poilievre’s sudden switch to patriotism after promoting how broken we are
By Letter to the Editor on February 25th, 2025
Dear editor: Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Brokenitis) has spent the last two years telling us, unendingly, how dysfunctional and broken Canada is. Now he wraps himself in our flag, which, 60 years ago, his party fought against adopting as our flag. Who said “patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels”? Not me. On the plus side, ... Read More »
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