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Paradigm shift needed for Canadians to embrace electric vehicles
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on May 3rd, 2019
If the federal government’s rebate of $5,000 has not been enough incentive for you to afford an electric car, just wait five years. Some analysts are predicting the price of electric vehicles will be similar to gas powered vehicles within that time. If we are really only five years away from this shift, our motivation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vital for UCP to address issues that are important to southeast Alberta
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on May 2nd, 2019
After an election couched in big picture items – a major pipeline, the environment, the state of Confederation – some of the fine details should start coming into view now. We are but two days after new Premier Jason Kenney and his cabinet were sworn in, and three weeks out from a proposed spring sitting ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Affairs: Floods dampen Scheer’s climate announcement
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on May 1st, 2019
It is not just huge swaths of ordinarily dry land in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick that were submerged as a result of a severe flooding this past weekend. So was a Conservative plan to belatedly put to rest queries about the tenor of the party’s climate policy. Federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer had ... Read More »
1 responseDon’t have a cow, man
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on May 1st, 2019
The animation has improved, but “The Simpsons” haven’t been funny for years. Long gone are the days of the family zapping each other with electric shocks in Dr. Marvin Monroe’s office, Krusty getting framed and a miniature golf showdown between Bart and Todd Flanders. Still, many of us tuned in Sunday – some for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Kenney has bigger battles to wage than carbon tax fight with Trudeau
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on April 27th, 2019
With Jason Kenney and the UCP’s landslide victory in the 2019 provincial election, the fate of the province’s carbon tax is certainly on the chopping block. However, by axing the provincial $30 a tonne levy, the province will fall into the federal government’s mandatory pricing of $20 a tonne, with the individual households receiving rebates ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Maple Leaf Foods, U.S.A.?
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on April 27th, 2019
Maple Leaf Foods, the largest pork processor in the country, has opted to build its new meatless plant south of the border. Unfortunately, the decision makes perfect sense. The iconic Canadian food company recently announced plans to spend US$310 million on a 230,000-square-foot processing plant in Indiana, where its Lightlife Burger and other products will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Affairs: Ford’s OHIP move strikes at the heart of medicare
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on April 27th, 2019
The Ontario government’s proposal to end out-of-country emergency OHIP coverage is a bad one. It is presented as a minimalist measure. It is anything but. Rather, it is a violation of the Canada Health Act. It strikes right at the heart of medicare. Canadian medicare is, in essence, an insurance plan. Those who live in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rudyard Kipling remains a favourite despite some of his war-time writings
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on April 24th, 2019
I just recently revisited the Esplanade. Just the foyer. What a great place. Then I walked over to that bronze sculpture of the early “Germans from Russia” pioneers. It lists many of the names. Their descendants – you’ll have noticed their names in sports, businesses, ranching, farming, politics, industries, etc. – are now legion, all ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Affairs: Trudeau must brace for shifting winds as provinces signal new era of instability
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on April 20th, 2019
And then there were none. As of the victory on Tuesday of Alberta’s United Conservatives, Canada’s first ministers club is once again male-only. Of the quartet of female premiers who led Canada’s largest provinces as recently as five years ago, not a single member is left at the table. But before jumping to the conclusion ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How much can premier-elect Kenney do, and how fast can he do it?
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on April 18th, 2019
Jason Kenney has created a daunting to-do list for the incoming United Conservative Party government. After this week’s celebrations and the moving of furniture in the Alberta legislature, we’ll begin to find out how do-able it is. Make no mistake, Conservatives have been champing at the bit to be back in government. After four years ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Advance voting seems to indicate a strong turnout for election
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on April 13th, 2019
There is every indication that voter turnout in this provincial election could be significant and maybe even break a record. In larger cities, in particular, Albertans have protested in large numbers about the economy, lack of jobs and lack of any momentum for recovery of the oil and gas industry. If that anger is representative ... Read More »
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