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City Notebook: This doesn’t come around too often, enjoy it
By Collin Gallant on May 17th, 2025
@@CollinGallant The Prince of Wales Trophy and Clarence Campbell Bowl lead lonely existences, shunned by their owners for fear a mere touch would jinx their ultimate chances at the Stanley Cup. Don’t expect the same treatment for the Ed Chynoweth Cup by the winner of the Western Hockey League. They are sure to grab it, ... Read More »
1 responseLet’s Chat: Literacy is key
By Linda Tooth on May 14th, 2025
People will often ask me how I decide on the topics I write on, or if I ever run out of article ideas. The answer is I never run out of things to say, and I write on what I am passionate about. Often the topics come to me via news or journal articles, books ... Read More »
1 responseNoteworthy: Feeling extra Canadian these days? Have I got a book for you
By Bruce Penton on May 14th, 2025
I’ve never been much for book reviews – and it’s not going to become a habit – but if you’re into Canadian history in rapid-fire, short doses, a book put together by the Toronto Globe & Mail staff might be one for you. Titled ‘A Nation’s Paper,’ the book features 30 chapters on a wide ... Read More »
1 responseCity Notebook: Unfamiliar foe from pretty familiar place
By Collin Gallant on May 10th, 2025
@@CollinGallant Some rivalries are obvious, bred from familiarity or geography. Lethbridge or Swift Current seem to the Tigers top foes of late. Their fans show up for games or moved here a while ago. They play a half dozen times a year. It makes sense. This may change as the WHL title series fires up ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Noteworthy: Pushed out in Carleton, Pierre Poilievre comes West to safety
By Bruce Penton on May 7th, 2025
Pierre Poilievre may have deserved a better fate April 28 than to be defeated by Liberal Bruce Fanjoy in his own Ontario riding of Carleton. After all, he had been the constituency’s Member of Parliament since 2004, was a popular leader within his Conservative Party and, it could be suggested, his re-election bid was hijacked ... Read More »
5 responsesLet’s Chat: Seniors need love, too
By Linda Tooth on May 7th, 2025
I was recently contacted by a local radio personality and asked to be a part of his show on Friday mornings. He is an advocate for animals, especially those in local shelters, and has worked tirelessly in other centres to promote those shelter animals on his radio programs. It took less than a second for ... Read More »
1 responseCity Notebook: As if we didn’t have enough to discuss in town already…
By Collin Gallant on May 3rd, 2025
@@CollinGallant Never a slow news day it Medicine Hat, it must be said, despite Ticked Off’s comments that often wonder whether the News can’t find anything better to write about. Or, the tightly held belief that we all live in Dullsville. Of course, the current edition of the Tigers is dynamite and getting talked up ... Read More »
1 responseNoteworthy: Interesting documentary coming soon about the man who robbed all those banks
By Bruce Penton on April 30th, 2025
The man who robbed two Medicine Hat banks on back-to-back days in 2017 is the subject of a Prime Video documentary that will be available on May 9. Steve Vogelsang was no run-of-the-mill armed robber. He had been a high-profile sportscaster on CTV in Winnipeg and later served as a journalism professor at the University ... Read More »
2 responsesLet’s Chat: Harmony not balance
By Linda Tooth on April 30th, 2025
Work-life balance. How many times have we heard this term and believed it to be true? Many books have been written on the importance of work-life balance and what we need to do to achieve it. I do not believe there is a balance between our work life and our personal life. Instead, I believe ... Read More »
1 responseCity Notebook: No matter the result, less finger pointing would be nice
By Collin Gallant on April 26th, 2025
@@CollinGallant There’s two potential realities after Monday’s General Election. The polls got it right, or the polls got it wrong – it’s happened before. Pollsters take a lot of blame, before, during and after elections. But so does everyone in this country on any number of topics. From coast to coast to coast, ours is ... Read More »
1 responseEconomics 101: The Trump dump
By Eric Van Enk on April 26th, 2025
The market rally affectionately known as the “Trump bump” which occurred immediately following Trump’s election to a second term last November quickly succumbed to what I’m coining the Trump dump. The stock market reacted negatively to increased tariff rhetoric from the Trump administration culminating in substantial panic selling following Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement on April ... Read More »
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