Letters to the Editor
Letter: Former mayor right about the unrest with city council – it’s bad all around
By Letter to the Editor on April 16th, 2024
Dear editor, I was not a big fan of our previous mayor, however he won my agreement when speaking out on his recent appearance on CHAT TV, regarding our current city council’s future. To put it bluntly, I agree! Our current city council governance is in big trouble. In my view, the penalty imposed on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Hatters suffer while council bickers like feuding parents
By Letter to the Editor on April 11th, 2024
Dear editor, One of the best analogies describing the current state of city council is that it’s like a divorce. But in this case, instead of a child receiving the brunt of the fallout coming from litigious, bickering parents who claim they are looking out for the best interests of their son or daughter, it’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Optimist Club of Medicine Hat thanks community after tough decision to disband
By Letter to the Editor on April 10th, 2024
Dear editor, The end came quickly at the April 3, 2023 regular meeting of the Optimist Club of Medicine Hat as it voted unanimously to disband. The club, whose international motto is “Friend of Youth,” chartered in December of 1961, and has been a major player and supporter of local youth programs in the City ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Glowing praise for the city and a promise to be back soon
By Letter to the Editor on April 9th, 2024
Dear editor, Until this week, all I saw of Medicine Hat was from the window of a Greyhound bus. That was enough to suggest to me that it’s a city of rich character, so this week when I got the opportunity to come down and have meetings with several people about climate change and the ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Petition committee pens letter requesting sanctions on mayor be lifted
By Letter to the Editor on April 4th, 2024
Mr. Dumanowski, Ms. Hider, Mr. Hirsch, Ms. Knodel, Mr. McGrogan, Ms. Robins and Ms. Van Dyke, We are writing to you to ask that you rescind the sanctions you applied to Mayor Clark. In spite of an investigator finding Mayor Clark contravening the council’s Code of Conduct, many in this community strongly disagree with him. ... Read More »
2 responsesLetter: Mostly-redacted ‘public’ report the kind of secrecy meant for dictatorships
By Letter to the Editor on April 2nd, 2024
Dear editor, There simply isn’t a democratic norm, policy or procedure which Medicine Hat councillors and staff won’t break to fit their own purposes. Councillors voted to receive the Kingsgate Legal report for the public record and in doing so, verbally named Coun. Shiila Sharps and Mayor Linnsie Clark as the complainant and respondent respectively. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Thank you to the city for keeping our paths clean through winter
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2024
Dear editor, Now that winter is over (fingers crossed) we should thank those responsible for clearing our walking paths around the city. I commute by bicycle as much as possible, and there would be many days when it would be unsafe to do so if the paths were not so attentively cleared of snow before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Council should be applauded for holding mayor to account
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2024
Dear editor, The rabble in our midst would have us believe all chance of valour has gone beyond recall or desire. Nothing could be further from the truth – the city council of Medicine Hat showed us that common sense still prevails, that the practice of public behaviour, manners and a polite society still prevails. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: City council fails us while real-life problems continue to mount
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2024
Dear editor, City council has completely failed the residents of Medicine Hat and is on track to continue to let citizens down over the next year-and-a-half. For more than two years now, the mayor and council have been determined to allow infighting at city hall to be the municipality’s top priority rather than the welfare ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Let’s make the Esplanade safe for everyone
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2024
Dear editor, Ever since the Esplanade first opened there have been unresolved safety and accessibility issues. But after my latest visit here are two that should receive immediate attention. Unlike the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, the Esplanade does not have centre aisle handrails for audience members with seats located in the upper balcony. If you ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Seems as if councillors broke procedure, not the mayor
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2024
Dear editor, I was amazed to hear that our duly elected mayor was reproved for calling the city manager (and perhaps the council itself) to account for an apparently illegal action in restructuring city positions. Perhaps this was an unwitting action on the part of both the council and the city manager, but I am ... Read More »
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