Opinions
On a new course in the world’s history
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 31st, 2018
There is a strange signal running through the world right now. It comes from no one source or cause, but it permeates the atmosphere like the smell of ozone just before a rainstorm. It’s a kind of dread mixed with a touch of hysteria, and grounded in a defensiveness. You see this manifested on the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Political leaders must exhibit higher standards
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 29th, 2018
At the beginning of the year, the Taber Times published an editorial entitled “Leaders must lead the way on sexual assault.” It argued that our representatives in legislature have a moral obligation to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment to serve as an example for their constituents. Events of the past week in Nova ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: Fire disaster never to be forgotten
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 29th, 2018
Oct. 17 was a trying day for many people throughout Western Canada with strong and destructive winds across much of the Prairie provinces. Some areas in the region saw those winds fuel wildfires that burned grassland, fence lines, crop land, homes, yards, livestock, wildlife and equipment. Damage from fire is always heartbreaking, but often is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!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 »
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