Letters to the Editor
Letter: Gaps in mental health and addictions treatment
By Letter to the Editor on November 23rd, 2023
Dear editor, The recent Friends of Medicare AGM featured a panel discussion that clearly exposed gaps in Alberta’s treatment of mental health and addictions. The panelists were Heather Woodward (manager of addictions and mental health), Russ Webb (insight counselling) and Sgt. Travis Funk (MHPS). The gaps they outlined include a lack of financial and personnel ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Appreciating HALO’s contributions beyond rural boundaries
By Letter to the Editor on November 22nd, 2023
Dear editor, I am writing in response to the recent complaint published in a Medicine Hat News Ticked Off Tickled Pink (Nov. 21) regarding the City of Medicine Hat’s decision to allocate funding to HALO Air Ambulance. While we recognize the allocation of city funds is a matter of concern for many residents, I believe ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Help the Rotary Club of Medicine Hat shape a new monthly column with your stories
By Letter to the Editor on November 9th, 2023
Fellow citizens, During the next several months, you and your stories about how Rotary projects have impacted your friends and families will be the focus of a new monthly column. It will begin with our Cenotaph. It was the very first project undertaken by the Rotary Club of Medicine Hat along with other community groups ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letters: Concerned about pension positioning
By medicinehatnews on November 2nd, 2023
Editor, I am very concerned about the Alberta government’s exploration of leaving the Canadian Pension Plan and creating an Alberta Pension Plan. It is based on a pretty picture and the Alberta Government’s view that it is entitled to more than half the total assets of the present CPP, which is preposterous at best. Why ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: We shouldn’t complain about Co-op Place location, we should do something about it
By Letter to the Editor on July 12th, 2023
Dear editor, Yes, it really is time to stop complaining about the Co-op Place location. However, please, let’s consider doing something to reduce the inherited resulting financial burden, and not just go on continuously, (for years now), accepting the large annual maintenance cost for a lovely, but seldom used and frequently empty facility, (primarily associated ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Local spike in substance use deaths should be concerning to all
By Letter to the Editor on June 28th, 2023
Dear editor, The Alberta Substance Use Surveillance Data for the first four months of 2023 was released this week. Alberta started tracking this information in 2016. That year, in Alberta for January to April there were 159 deaths. This year from January to April there were 613 deaths, a 285% increase from 2016. In Medicine ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: God bless the men and women who protect and serve
By Letter to the Editor on June 16th, 2023
Dear editor, I would like to show my own personal thanks to all police men and ladies for all the kind and heartfelt work and duties they have to performing while on duty. I understand just how dangerous your duties are, I cannot imagine every time you all put your lives in danger to help ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: TransCanada Highway needs to bypass Medicine Hat for betterment of civilized living
By Letter to the Editor on June 16th, 2023
Dear editor, The Trans-Canada Highway as it traverses Medicine Hat generates pathological levels of noise for a few hundred metres on either side of the right of way. These effects are most commonly realized as sleep disturbances, annoyance and to a lesser extent, ischemic heart disease. The issue will only exacerbate as the population of ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Current provincial government nothing like great conservatives of old
By Letter to the Editor on June 16th, 2023
Dear editor, Once again, Edmontonians and those in the surrounding area have shown that they understand what is happening to this province and have voted to try to protect it. Why then is it so hard for many Calgarians and Rural Albertans to understand that the defeated and victorious NDP candidates are sons and daughters ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Canada is no poster child for environmentalism
By Letter to the Editor on June 8th, 2023
Dear editor, I am so tired of people saying Canada does not have a pollution problem. We are getting a D rating on per capita pollution. We are a large country with a population spread out widely. Everything we want or need has to be transported by truck, train or plane. We develop our raw ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Medicine Hat area bears close connection to RCMP history
By Letter to the Editor on June 1st, 2023
In response to the Canadian Press story “RCMP turns 150…” in the May 23 edition of the News. Dear editor, It is little-known that the Great March of the Northwest Mounted Police in 1874 passed through, or very near Medicine Hat. The Red Coat Trail (so-named to commemorate the RCMP centennial) is actually many miles ... Read More »
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