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Who’s the premier here?
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 20th, 2018
While Jason Kenney’s trip to India could be problematic, it is certainly in keeping with how the United Conservative leader operates, and, apparently, is enough to draw out the New Democrats, who seem increasingly willing to counter-punch. Kenney and two of his MLAs are in India this week on what they describe as a trip ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Happy ending to Amber Alert
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 19th, 2018
It was all over the media for a 24-hour news cycle. A six-year-old girl described as autistic, epileptic and non-verbal, was found safe in Saskatchewan after being reported missing for 12 hours. According to police, her mom left the car running when she zipped in to do a quick errand at a strip mall. An ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prostate tests raise difficult questions
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 18th, 2018
The predicament of a Victoria resident who was diagnosed with Stage 3 prostate cancer after being denied a blood test has generated both sympathy and controversy. Grant McKenzie was refused a prostate specific antigen test at age 53. Two years later, his cancer was found. McKenzie believes that had he been granted the test, his ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Smoke ’em if you got ’em
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 17th, 2018
When marijuana becomes legal, residents of Esquimalt can be confident that the naval ship pulling into their harbour won’t be steered by a sailor with one hand on the wheel and the other clutching a joint. As the Oct. 17 date for legalization approaches the Canadian Armed Forces is adapting its regulations to balance members’ ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Could Quebec use move for dress-code law?
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 15th, 2018
Chances are Ontario’s Doug Ford will not for long be the only premier to bypass the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to push through a controversial item on his legislative agenda. Depending on the outcome of the Quebec Oct. 1 election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s home province could be next. But if that were to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The human being behind the badge
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 15th, 2018
Sometimes, even the helpers are in need of help. Last Monday’s World Suicide Prevention Day event in Lethbridge highlighted the fact that first responders can fall victim to the darkness of depression. And depression, taken to an extreme, can lead to suicidal thoughts. One of the presenters at the Lethbridge event knows very well what ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: The many faces of poverty in Canada
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 14th, 2018
The federal government is to be congratulated on its just-released Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Strategy itself, running to more than 100 pages, endorses the idea of an official poverty line, relieving Statistics Canada from the impossible task of finding a purely statistical basis for defining and measuring poverty. It further endorses the idea that poverty ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: Medically assisted dying cases need stronger review to safeguard us all
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 14th, 2018
In the early days of Canada’s public conversation about medical assistance in dying (MAID), Dr. Jeff Blackmer, then vice-president of the Canadian Medical Association, expressed the gravitas of the policy choices that lay ahead as “no less than a sea change” to the ethos and culture of the medical profession. That was in 2016, after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Blanket ban on cellphones in class would not be smart
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 13th, 2018
With students back in class, educators, parents and politicians are talking about cellphones. Again. Along with sex education, “discovery” math and seemingly everything else going on in Ontario classrooms, Premier Doug Ford wants parents to weigh in on cellphone use in school. His Progressive Conservative party campaigned on a promise to bring in an outright ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jagmeet Singh digs himself a deep hole
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 12th, 2018
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh has opened a new can of worms. His decision to bar sitting MP Erin Weir from contesting the NDP nomination in his own riding has sparked an open revolt in the Saskatchewan wing of the party. “There’s a lot of outrage,” former Saskatchewan NDP MP Lorne Nystrom, a 32-year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: Canada’s crude oil profit margin is being railroaded
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 12th, 2018
When Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal quashed the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, citing inadequate consultation with First Nations and concerns over marine tanker traffic, it was the latest blow in a bad few months for Canada’s heavy oil producers. Crude oil exports shipped by rail reached a record high ... Read More »
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