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Opinion: Federal Tories should be looking for a new vision
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 20th, 2019
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade There is a big difference between a “manager” and a “leader” and when it comes to politics, in particular leaders are in short supply. One way to describe a leader, versus a manager, is someone with a vision who is able to inspire others to follow his or her leadership/example to achieve that vision. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Opinion: Public should demand more from politicians
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 19th, 2019
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@collingallant Four years is a long time. Just ask Democrats in the United States, Conservatives in Canada, right-of-centre voters in Alberta during the last term of government, or progressives who now hunkering down and yearning for the 2023 provincial election. Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, a result of turbo-charged traditional and social media ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: Canadian Energy Centre seeks to bring measured tone
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 18th, 2019
Re: “Energy war room an expensive joke at best,” Dec. 14 Since the Canadian Energy Centre’s (CEC) public launch last week, it has been gratifying to see the breadth and depth of interest in our mandate to create a new, pragmatic, fact-based narrative about Canadian energy. Like many new ideas, our website and social media ... Read More »
13 responsesOpinion: Grinches surfacing during Christmas season
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 18th, 2019
There appears to be a troubling trend emerging in the province from the fallout of what seems like reneging by Premier Jason Kenney on the UCP’s Health-Care Guarantee, and perceived war on public-sector workers with education feeling the bite as well. With the belt-tightening of the provincial budget which was announced earlier this year, it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No celebrating this anniversary
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 16th, 2019
A one-year anniversary passed Tuesday, but it isn’t one that was being celebrated – least of all by the two Canadians to whom the milestone applied. Tuesday marked one year since Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in China in what had all the appearances of retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Affairs: Resignation recalls legacy of ‘Joe Who’
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 16th, 2019
@susandelacourt Andrew Scheer announced his departure as Conservative leader on the eve of a significant political anniversary in Canada. Forty years ago, on Dec. 13, 1979, the Conservative minority government of Joe Clark fell, setting in motion a chain of events that would transform the two big political parties in Canada for decades to come. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Laying it Out: Few wait less but we all pay the price
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 14th, 2019
The minister of health was up early last Saturday taking to Twitter to claim my column to be “an artful construction of an altered reality.” As is becoming more and more clear every day, I absolutely do live in a different reality than Tyler Shandro, though I’ll remind you that mine has inflation, population growth ... Read More »
1 responseOpinion: Energy war room an expensive joke at best
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 14th, 2019
jappel@medicinehatnews.com@MHNJeremyAppel “You can’t fight in here, this is the war room,” Peter Sellers says in the classic 1964 apocalyptic political satire “Dr. Strangelove.” I’m reminded of this joke by Premier Jason Kenney’s announcement this week, unveiling a kinder, gentler war room than the vitriolic inquisition against “foreign-funded” environmentalists he promised on the campaign trail. The ... Read More »
16 responsesOpinion: Everyday Albertans will lose in this battle
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 13th, 2019
Hindsight is 2020, but perhaps health care reform should have been looked at far sooner than 2020. Jason Kenney government is keen on reducing the deficit in individual budgets, subsequently wanting to create future surpluses and then reduce the province’s accumulated debt. According to statistics from the inaugural and now infamous 2019 provincial Alberta budget ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: ATA invites others to join in defending public education
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 12th, 2019
Last week, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released results of international assessments that showed Alberta’s public education system remained one of the very best education systems in the entire world. Our system ranked third in the world in reading, third in science and eighth in mathematics. Since the OECD’s Programme for International ... Read More »
2 responsesGuest Column: The cost of unpaid caregivers for Alberta’s seniors
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on December 10th, 2019
As part of our ongoing work, the Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA) took a fulsome look at the role of unpaid caregivers of seniors with declining health. We set out to measure the impact and value in terms of costs avoided by our health system. Our goal was to better understand how Albertans who ... Read More »
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