Letters to the Editor
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 »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Destruction of campaign signs unacceptable on either side
By Letter to the Editor on June 1st, 2023
Dear editor, My family moved to Medicine Hat seven years ago, and we have grown to love this city. During the recent election campaign, I have been distressed to witness the damage and destruction of political signs. I don’t care whose political signs they are, this is vandalism of property and has no place in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Only you can prevent forest fires
By Letter to the Editor on May 16th, 2023
Dear editor, We’ve all been reading about the active fires in the province. There are families who have been evacuated and some that have lost their homes. How frightening, upsetting and most definitely stressful time for anyone who is affected by such a disaster. One cannot fathom how a person might truly feel if faced ... Read More »
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