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Economics 101: O Canada
By Eric Van Enk on July 26th, 2025
This week’s chart highlights earnings growth estimates for publicly traded companies in Canada (red), the U.S. (blue), Emerging Markets (light blue) and Europe, Australia & the Far East (grey). In the first column on the left, the average annual earnings growth is displayed for each market over the last decade. Notice Canada is second only ... Read More »
1 responseNoteworthy: Stampede only made possible by volunteers
By Bryuce Penton on July 23rd, 2025
It’s a staggering number. The Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede said it utilizes the efforts of 800 volunteers to make the annual summer extravaganza such a success. Action starts today and runs through Sunday. The event’s website lists 27 different committees where volunteers are needed, which averages out to around 30 each. Some use more, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Let’s Chat: Banning of books leaves more questions, concerns
By Linda Tooth on July 23rd, 2025
In 2020, Statistics Canada reported that “Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15-19-year-olds, second only to all unintentional injuries (accidents) combined, including unintentional drug overdose”. To bring this a little bit closer to home, according to the Alberta Suicide Prevention Infographic created by Alberta Health Services, 63-67 per cent of LGTBQ2S+ youth, ... Read More »
2 responsesNoteworthy: Smoke be gone by order of tariffs
By Bruce Penton on July 16th, 2025
Republican politicians in Minnesota and Wisconsin want Canada to curb the amount of wildfire smoke drifting into the United States and “robbing Americans of their ability to enjoy the summer,” according to a Canadian Press report last week. Next on their list of demands will be to stop mosquitoes from crossing the border and biting ... Read More »
1 responseLet’s Chat: Afternoon tea, anyone?
By Linda Tooth on July 16th, 2025
Are you a fan of the Julia Quinn Bridgerton novels or the Netflix adaptation by Shonda Rhimes? If so, you know that afternoon teas and the social concept behind it was very important during the Regency and Victorian eras in England. It gave people, especially women, an opportunity to socialize in the late afternoon over ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: It’s not goodbye, but a change has arrived
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 12th, 2025
@CollinGallant Immediately after I arrived in Medicine Hat 20 years ago – and then for a decade after – Hatters’ first question for me when I was out doing interviews was: How long do you think you’ll stay? After another 10 years, the answer is still the same – What do you mean? I live ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Noteworthy: Are self-checkouts doing anyone any real favours?
By Bruce Penton on July 9th, 2025
Many people are of two minds when it comes to self-checkout aisles at grocery stores or other retail outlets. One, if you have only a few items and the cashier-attended aisles are jammed, it can make for a quick getaway. But two, technology has taken away a job from someone. One of the stores I ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Let’s Chat: Do not close the door to empathy
By Linda Tooth on July 9th, 2025
Are you familiar with the Stonewall Riots that took place in New York City in 1969? I was only three at the time, so it is not something I had heard of or was familiar with until I purchased the second book in the proposed banning of reading material in school libraries by the UCP ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Noteworthy: From buffalo to elephant? Republican Party of Alberta seems determined to take hold
By Bruce Penton on July 2nd, 2025
If you’re someone who would be apt to vote YES! in all caps and an exclamation point on Alberta separating from the rest of Canada, the Republican Party of Alberta may be for you. Formerly the Buffalo Party, the newly-named Republican Party of Alberta ran three candidates in recent provincial byelections, and plan to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Let’s Chat: A book review of a tragicomic
By Linda Tooth on July 2nd, 2025
The UCP government in Alberta seems content on controlling what the young people in this province can and cannot read at their school libraries. Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides has been in the news a lot lately telling us that parents are outraged to discover certain books are accessible to their children in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: Yay, nay, or undecided on MCC, council will spend final months under fire
By Collin Gallant on June 28th, 2025
@@CollinGallant Speakers attempted to get their pound of flesh from city council members at a public hearing this week, and not just on a plan to create a corporation to run Medicine Hat’s utility. Jabs about Division Avenue, wanting to build a solar field, even selling off gas wells were wondered about loudly. One speaker ... Read More »
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