Opinions
Guest Column: Opinions are not facts
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 27th, 2018
I wasn’t going to do this. It isn’t very rewarding to pick low-hanging fruit, and I really don’t like showing disrespect. But I’ve been busy doing other important things like writing a paper for my college class so I don’t have a lot of time to do a proper editorial. So I’m going to go ... Read More »
3 responsesMLA Report: Alberta challenge is how to even out economic peaks and valleys
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 26th, 2018
The province is seeing positive economic indicators such as increased employment, higher oil prices and growth in retail sales but as Alberta takes tender steps towards a recovery it’s important to remember the past five decades of boom-bust cycles we have faced. One past trend has been to stress the need for diversifying our economy ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: So sorry, but I am not sorry
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 22nd, 2018
Canadians have a reputation around the world for being polite and our politicians are anxious to perpetuate that myth with expressions of love, kindness, encouragement and acceptance of everyone. Our prime minister even threatens our chances of being part of a free trade deal by attempting to impose his world view into the conditions of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Affairs: The terrible part of NAFTA that Canada wants to keep, for now
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 20th, 2018
Canada is going all-out to save the North American Free Trade Agreement. The ruling Liberal government has even enlisted the help of the opposition Conservatives in this crusade. Rumours suggesting that U.S. President Donald Trump might kill the pact have cast a pall over official Ottawa. Yet a new study shows that in at least ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Report: U.S. politics are obscuring important topics closer to home
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 19th, 2018
It seems these days that many Albertans have found rich entertainment watching American politics. Love or dislike what is happening south of the border, it is obscuring two things that are important, closer to home. First, for many years, there were three big names in Canadian conservative politics.Former prime minister Stephen Harper was one of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta-Sask. tiff about more than just licence plates
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 18th, 2018
Medicine Hat popped up on western newswires this week as the preferred spot by the Saskatchewan government to resolve an interprovincial trade dispute. Even in a town that is craving publicity, one can only continue to scratch one’s head trying to make sense of the entire controversy. The geography is a no brainer — possibly ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The different meanings behind ‘where are you from?’
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 17th, 2018
“What’s in a name? (Would not) that which we call a rose, by any other word smell as sweet?” Not if you are like many Canadians who continue to make an “other” out of those born in Canada with last names which reflect ethnic origins not of the British isles or of France. In southern ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: Trump is the emperor without clothes, possibly the ‘biggest, most dangerous the world has ever seen’
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 13th, 2018
I am a news addict. I listen to the news in the car and at home and talk about it with co-workers, friends, and even complete strangers sometimes. The news is one of those ‘windows onto the world’ that can give us a sense of where our world is going. I can’t avert my gaze ... Read More »
2 responsesMarple’s courage in going public with dementia diagnosis has had benefits
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 12th, 2018
Being bold enough to put a name and face to it takes courage. There are all sorts of issues that make Hatters annoyed. Some choose to leave an anonymous comment for Ticked Off & Tickled Pink. Others make a telephone call to the News and vent. It is fairly rare for an individual to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadians should be angrily fired up over bread ripoff
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 11th, 2018
Fixing bread prices seems as though it would be more of an issue during the French or Russian Revolutions than in our modern world. However, the current case of companies accused of adding pennies to loaves over the course of the last 14 years should be a call to arms for citizens. Considering that our ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oprah is not the answer
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 10th, 2018
Whether Oprah Winfrey runs for president in 2020 or not, it will not miraculously change what is wrong with America. In fact, it might even be detrimental to American society as a whole if she does run. The last thing the United States needs is another over-exposed celebrity setting its political agenda, cloistered in notions ... Read More »
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