Letter: MHC making a mistake allowing Rebel News Panel to occur
By Letter to the Editor on February 11, 2026.
Dear editor, I’m writing regarding our local college’s decision to host a Rebel News Panel. Medicine Hat College’s motto is “Scientia Mentem Sustinet,” which is Latin for “Knowledge Sustains the Mind.” This motto invites a reasonable inquiry into the College’s decision to host Rebel News Panelist Tamara Lich – among others – as a speaker. Ms. Lich was a central organizer of the 2022 Ottawa occupation, where she repeatedly advised fellow occupiers to “hold the line” to encourage prolonged defiance of local bylaws. In 2025, she was convicted of mischief, intimidation, and counselling to commit mischief and is currently serving a conditional sentence. The issue is not whether Ms. Lich is legally allowed to speak in public. It is whether what she promotes – and the manner in which she promotes it – aligns with an academic mission. Higher education is meant to foster critical inquiry, evidence-based reasoning, and openness to challenge. Political mobilization built on slogans and defiance serves a different purpose. Hosting such a speaker, under the banner of “knowledge” risks blurring the line between education and political roadshows. Will this event align with the college’s stated motto, and truly sustain the mind? Would a more appropriate venue be a hotel conference room, rather than a publicly funded academic institution? Anna Hansen Medicine Hat 11-10
Great letter Anna.
So while these mindless Reformers show no respect for our children and grandchildren’s future they show no concern for the $37 million debt these convoy truckers created for the citizens of Ottawa to deal with and a $6 billion economic disaster they created for Canadians, where is the intelligence in that.
There is certainly nothing conservative about these fools is there?
I wonder if these 14 fools who don’t agree with me can explain to us where our children and grandchildren are going to find the billions of dollars these Reformers have dumped onto the laps of our children with the help of these mindless seniors? This we don’t give a damn about you attitude is sickening while they line up to vote us into a separation from Canada too dumb to understand what it will cost us. Would you think these seniors would be a lot smarter? They aren’t.
I just do not get it. They are supporting people that are actively trying to destroy Alberta. It really is sickening!
It certainly is and these are seniors who should be a lot smarter but they aren’t. What we find so stupid about is. Young couples in the Edmonton area are telling that they have become so disgusted wth their stupidity that they have refused to allow them to take part in their families gatherings like Christmas and birthday parties and that is really sad, isn’t it?
Great comments Anna.
Great letter Anna!