Opinions
Marple’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 »
Be the first to comment!Economics 101
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 8th, 2018
I am always amused by people who demand more services from government, lower taxes for them and want to tax the rich and the corporations more and more. These people obviously have no concept of where money comes from. The money comes from work, effort and risk along with due diligence. Some in the U.S. ... Read More »
2 responsesWe should take a closer look at how we treat our most vulnerable
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 5th, 2018
How quickly we forget a lesson learned nine years ago. On Jan. 6, 2009, a homeless man was found dead outside the Medicine Hat Public Library. It was around 2 p.m. before anyone even noticed him wedged between an exterior wall of the library and a parallel decorative, perforated wall. “He was in the fetal ... Read More »
1 responseComing up in 2018: Mundane, but necessary work at municipal level
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 4th, 2018
The changing over of the calendar will always bring with it some new optimism, a hope for better times, even an easier go of things. But, with the bottles of bubbly now drained and confetti cleared away, the road ahead for City Hall shows a lot work on the agenda. Mayor Ted Clugston ran a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A tale of two leaders
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 3rd, 2018
Thomas Pynchon once said in his landmark novel “Gravity’s Rainbow” about the vagaries and vicissitude’s of power, politics and decision making that “Decisions are never really made — at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around a**holery.” As we end 2017 and move on to 2018, we ... Read More »
2 responsesDoes getting older mean you’re getting wiser?
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 2nd, 2018
I attended a funeral recently where everyone felt uncomfortable. The atmosphere was thick and interactions felt totally artificial. We were acting like robots going through the motions — lips moving, hands shaking, legs walking. There was absolutely no heart communication. So do we get wiser as we age? If you think so, you probably forgot ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!U.S. needs federal funding to slow opioid death spiral
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 2nd, 2018
In almost every developed country, life expectancy at birth has trended predictably and steadily upward for decades, with slight hiccups from time to time, usually lasting just a year and often triggered by major epidemics. The United States, in the grip of an escalating opioid addiction and overdose crisis, has now recorded its second straight ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: Loblaw, Weston burn consumers
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 29th, 2017
Most Canadians were stunned and dismayed to learn that the country’s leading grocer was caught up in a price-fixing scheme with bread-maker George Weston Ltd., which is owned by the same company. The scheme lasted from 2001 to 2015. As a result, Loblaw Companies Ltd. fired several people and gave $25 gift certificates to millions ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Speed kills, but slowpokes on merge ramps are a danger, too
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 29th, 2017
There are some passionate comments in the Ticked Off and Tickled Pink column of the News sometimes. Several have expressed feelings of annoyance about a sense of being hurried by other traffic. Some have gone as far as saying they have the right to drive slowly and if others do not like it they should ... Read More »
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