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Common Sense Health: Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Attacks Mean Misery and Economic Disaster
By Dr. Gifford-Jones and Diana Gifford-Jones on January 3rd, 2025
Why do people inflict misery upon themselves? By gaining too much weight, people are decreasing their quality of life and dying prematurely. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to find the clues leading to tragic or mysterious deaths. The evidence is in plain sight. We are a society in which obese people are becoming ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By the Way: Tears at Christmas
By Rev. Nancy Cocks on December 28th, 2024
I listen to CBC Calgary often. When their ‘Make the Season Kind’ campaign went over the goal of $1.5 million for Alberta foodbanks this month, my eyes filled with tears. Such generosity in a challenging time! Tears of joy. Later that day, I read a news article about twin Palestinian sisters, both admitted to PhD ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Collector’s Corner: Holiday traditions from Canada Post
By Dennis Vickery on December 28th, 2024
Canada Post has released Christmas designs every year since 1964, and for nearly 20 years has offered stamps featuring secular Holiday imagery. The latest Christmas stamp depicts a vibrant-coloured illustration of the Holy Family. It shows Mary and Joseph looking lovingly at the infant Jesus. A star is visible overhead, which was said to announce ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!All Psyched Up: A time for pause
By Linda Hancock on December 28th, 2024
For over two decades I have been writing this newspaper column. Some might think that there is only so much one can say about the special holidays and important dates throughout the year but there is always a new perspective to consider. Today I write about the significance of new year that has some very ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Science Smarts: Putting a spin on crystal making
By Patty Rooks on December 28th, 2024
Once Christmas is over, I find myself looking for some fun and exciting science activities to keep those small hands busy. As I was playing around, I discovered a new spin on one of my favourite Holiday time activities – making crystals. Let’s get started! *Remember to ask an adult before doing this experiment. Materials ... Read More »
1 responseCommon Sense Health: Ring in the New Year, but not literally
By Dr. Gifford-Jones and Diana Gifford-Jones on December 27th, 2024
Albert Einstein once said, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” Many doctors would agree. There are patients who willfully inflict medical problems on themselves, even when they have full knowledge of the behaviours and lifestyle habits that will end their lives prematurely. There are other ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eye on the Esplanade: From sketch to symbol – Behind the face of the Medicine Hat News
By Jenni Barrientos on December 27th, 2024
The Medicine Hat News logo is one of the most iconic pieces of our city’s history. More than just the News, it’s on city police cars, and flies on a flag at city hall – almost everyone has seen the effigy of the “Medicine Man” logo. Recently at the Archives, we welcomed a researcher from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Service Above Self: Then and now – Back to the future
By Kitt Brand on December 24th, 2024
In the 1920s after only 15 years, Rotary was an international phenomenon having spread to the British Isles, Europe, Central and South America, Australia, Africa, and Asia. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram – only radio, telegraph, and paper correspondence to tell its story, promote its philosophy. In Medicine Hat, Rotary spread as well. It ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Science Smarts: Snow volcanos. Enough said.
By Patty Rooks on December 21st, 2024
Oh my, what a dump of snow I received today! There are a few centimetres of beautiful snow for sure. It is beautiful outside. When it warms up a few degrees, I am going to get outside and make use of the mounds of snow I have been shovelling today. Do not delay, as you ... Read More »
1 responseAll Psyched Up: The first Christmas
By Linda Hancock on December 21st, 2024
As I sit in my warm condo when temperatures are close to 20 degrees below zero, I look out at the snow and think of the story from ancient scriptures that resulted in the worldwide holiday that we are approaching. The Christmas story tells of a time when a young pregnant woman (a virgin no ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By the Way: The Equalizer
By Shane Hein on December 21st, 2024
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways. – Luke 3:5 [ESV] I would imagine that all of you have seen The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. The plot is not terribly complicated: Denzel’s character ... Read More »
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