Opinions
Guest Column: Stop fretting about social media giants and build a competitor
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 6th, 2019
Against the frenzy of inaccurate and manipulative information consistently roaring through social media sites, the companies that manage these sites – like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter – have been trying to combat misinformation. However, they always seem to be two steps behind. Initially, in an effort to keep up with the sheer volume of material, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The Mustard Seed brings a solid track record of helping those in poverty
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 6th, 2019
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade The Mustard Seed will soon be operating in Medicine Hat, attending to the needs of those living in poverty. The organization has a proven track record after decades of service in Calgary and Edmonton. They have identified a need here and are working hard to address that need with compassion and innovative ideas. They ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Get ready, the campaign is almost upon us
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 5th, 2019
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant September sends us back to school and October will send us back to the polls. And while the Canadian political landscape has been percolating, is there any reason to suspect we won’t see a rerun of the recent campaign in Alberta or last year’s in Ontario? Forgetting outcomes for a moment, both elections were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minimum wage changes have lessons for youth
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 29th, 2019
collingallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The combination of Labour Day, back-to-school and new changes to minimum wage should provide a teachable moment for young people in the workforce and indeed all of us. One of the many and lengthy politicized issues in Alberta this summer and the past few years has been changes to minimum wage. Now the new ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Report: Alberta deserves a fair deal
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 29th, 2019
With a little under two months until our next federal election, it is important for us to remember what is at stake when Canadians head to the polls on Oct. 21. This isn’t an election like most. In Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have done all they can to hold back Alberta and stand in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!All Canadians can benefit from immigration
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 29th, 2019
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade As a society we pride ourselves on being inclusive, multicultural and a community that welcomes immigrants. Those sound good and can even flow off the tongue but the reality can be very different. A recent comment in this paper’s Ticked Off and Tickled Pink feature has someone responding to an individual that must have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Affairs: SNC-Lavalin affair isn’t hurting PM in the polls
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 24th, 2019
Even before the Liberals used their majority on a parliamentary committee on Wednesday to shut down future inquiries into the federal ethics commissioner’s scathing report about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin file, there were signs that Mario Dion’s findings were not destined to become a turning point of the pre-election season. By ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Making a mockery of the office of the ethics commissioner
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 23rd, 2019
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade What on earth is the point of having an ethics commissioner’s investigation and report when it can just be ignored? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a mockery of that office and its intended role. Trudeau says he accepts the report, but does not agree with it and so still stands by what he ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Report: The path to growth, opportunities for families and communities
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 23rd, 2019
Herbert Hoover in an address to the Nebraska Republican Conference in Lincoln, Neb. on Jan. 16, 1936 stated, “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” If only Hoover had known the future. The statement is not country specific, it is a concept that applies to all free market democratic countries. Here ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New documentary could shed some light on climate policy in the runup to October’s federal election
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 17th, 2019
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade With the federal election just two months away, the timing of the ethics commissioner’s report about the SNC-Lavalin affair could not have been worse for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to halt the criminal prosecution of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!National Affairs: Fate of PM rests with voters
By medicinehatnews on August 16th, 2019
Where to start? The ethics commissioner report on the SNC-Lavalin affair contains the most damning findings ever rendered by an officer of Parliament against a sitting prime minister. Yes, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin were splattered by the sponsorship scandal. And Stephen Harper spent his last year in office embroiled in a Senate scandal that ... Read More »
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