Commentary

Dear editor, I feel it is time for the adults in this community to show up. This community needs sane, mature adult conversation when interacting and dealing with elected officials and public servants. We also need conversations based on reality and the facts as they are and not descend into internet-based fantasies that have no [...] Read More »

Dear editor, I was listening to a town hall meeting about Refocusing Healthcare and heard Patient Focused Care as one of the benefits. I have listened to many Patient Focused Care presentations over the years since January 2009 as an AHS volunteer. I am not sure whether or not the new reconfiguring of our health-care [...] Read More »

Dear editor, As a former member of the executive who also served eight years as chairman of the grounds committee, I learned quickly from the grounds superintendent of the day that one of the main concerns years in and out was water management. SMRID provides the water for the Medicine Hat Line, and after assessment [...] Read More »

Dear editor, Re: Trans-Mountain Pipeline start of operation – May 1, 2024 About six years ago the federal government spent 4.5 billion taxpayer dollars to keep Trans-Mountain alive. About a year later, our MP, Mr. Glen Motz, wrote in the News about the “… crippling hurt this government has levied on our natural resource industry,…” [...] Read More »

Dear council members Clark, Dumanowski, Hider, Hirsch, Knodel, McGrogan, Robins, Sharps and Van Dyke, As a former executive officer with the city and Speaker of the Alberta Legislature I respectfully submit that the current divisions greatly affecting our city may in part be about personalities, but more the governance structure and process. Only you can [...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke Documentary Teaser: Finale Screenings With the final shows of Your Cinema Needs You returning to the Monarch Theatre later this month, I decided to cut a new trailer for the documentary using some previously deleted scenes. You can purchase movie tickets for these screenings from May 30 to June 2 here[...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke New York Film & Cinematography Nomination In what can only be described as exceeding expectations at this point, Your Cinema Needs You picked up another official selection and film festival nomination last week. This nod comes from the New York Film & Cinematography Awards and feels particularly special after I made a [...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke Tail O’ the Pup in Los Angeles, California A few visuals from the iconic Tail O’ the Pup hot dog stand in Los Angeles, California. [...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke Experience Medicine Hat: Monarch Documentary Hey girl, I’m not just a good time, I’m a full page in this year’s “experience Medicine Hat” travel guide lol (see the original post on @editingluke). My thanks to the team at Tourism Medicine Hat for the feature and interview about my documentary, Your Cinema Needs [...] Read More »

Source: Editing Luke Front Page News: Your Cinema Needs You Yesterday I got a text from my mom, and she goes, “I saw you on the front page of today’s paper. You really are a big deal.” Just totally glossing over the fact that I’ve been telling her what a big deal I am since [...] Read More »

Rise Up, the hot air balloon festival, is a terrific event and Medicine Hat is lucky to be the host. Hot air balloons from all over North American descended on Medicine Hat and then filled the sky for four days while citizens were able to get up close and see for themselves just how massive [...] Read More »

I had no sooner submitted my previous column on body-shaming when the day it appeared Barbra Streisand came out via an Instagram post and asked Melissa McCarthy if she looked good due to taking the controversial diabetic and weight loss drug Ozempic. If you have been living under a rock and are not familiar with [...] Read More »

Without any consideration for the current cost-of-living crisis Canadians are experiencing, the federal government hiked the carbon tax by 23 per cent on April 1, 2024. Overall, gas prices have increased by more than 50 per cent since Trudeau became prime minister nine years ago. The recent common-sense Conservative ask of Trudeau is simple. Give [...] Read More »

When I speak with clients or meet readers of my articles around town, I often receive questions about inflation – what is it and why is it so high? Inflation can be understood through the concept of purchasing power – what you can purchase for $100 at the grocery store today is substantially less than [...] Read More »

@@CollinGallant Local lawns have received a call from the governor, so to speak, in the form of near record rain in the month of May. That kinda flies in the face of predictions of severe and continuing drought, but don’t get smug. Recall that a whopper three-inch rain burst arrived here on a single day [...] Read More »

Ticked Off The Veiner Centre, if necessary, should be run by the City of Medicine Hat, not a for-profit from Calgary. Tickled Pink The river is high and flowing at a reasonable rate. So now, residents, don’t waste this precious resource. Set your sprinklers up and water in the dry days to come. Not now [...] Read More »

Ticked Off The UCP could use the money they waste on advertising telling us how good the health-care system is to actually use that money to help make the system better. Ticked Off Clarification: I support all trained and certified service dogs – a large big-box store in the south end feels it is OK [...] Read More »

Ticked Off People are entitled to their privacy in their own yards. Building a four-storey condo unit next to an established neighborhood would take privacy away. There is plenty of room for such a large building elsewhere. Why on 1st. SW. Tickled Pink Excellent article on Allyson McCaw. I hope she enjoys her retirement but [...] Read More »

Tickled Pink Thank you to the city administration and councillors for giving out 30 complimentary rain barrels. You have redeemed yourself with this nice gesture, you shouldn’t have to provide any receipts or expenditure explanations. Tickled Pink That the mayor has been caught. All seven councillors can not be wrong. Ticked Off Feeding 250 a [...] Read More »

Ticked Off There are a lot of ‘UN’ words to describe the Alberta government – unpopular, unfair, etc. But just ‘un’ should be what the U in UPC stands for. They continue to introduce unessential legislation and spend money unnecessarily, and that makes them unconservative. Tickled Pink We the citizens are seeing just a fraction [...] Read More »