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Community Foundation of SE Alberta hands out $363K in emergency COVID support
By Medicine Hat News on July 28th, 2020
The Community Foundation of Southeastern Alberta announced a total of $363,720 in grants through the Emergency Community Support Fund. The local chapter of the Community Foundation is still accepting applications for the COVID-19 Response Fund for SE Alberta. Local charities and not-for-profits working with vulnerable populations are encouraged to apply. Recipients Ronald McDonald House – ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Safeway workers to vote on new deal
By Medicine Hat News on July 25th, 2020
Safeway workers across Alberta will vote on a new union contract in early August, weeks after a strike vote and mediators’ report on how to break a stalemate in talks that have gone on since March 2017. About 8,100 workers are represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local No. 401, and voting to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!SW Saskatchewan communities cash in on infrastructure funds
By Medicine Hat News on July 24th, 2020
The Town of Maple Creek will receive nearly $300,000 for its community fire hall through the latest round of Municipal Economic Enhancement funding from the Saskatchewan government, while Shaunavon will receive close to $246,000 for a variety of projects. The province announced the $150-million program in May, and this week’s announcement brings the total projects ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City police nab suspect wanted by cops in Winnipeg
By Medicine Hat News on July 24th, 2020
On Wednesday evening Medicine Hat Police Service, working in partnership with the Winnipeg Police Service, responded to a report of a stolen BMW SUV approaching the city. MHPS conducted a high-risk vehicle stop and arrested a 24-year-old male from Calgary without incident. A search of the vehicle also revealed stolen property that is possibly from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fire department investigating small back-alley blaze on SE Hill
By Medicine Hat News on July 24th, 2020
Medicine Hat Fire Services responded to the scene of a fire on the Southeast Hill on Thursday morning. Scott Hanelt, fire marshall and chief investigator, says the fire took place in the back lane between homes on Sixth and Seventh streets in the 200 block. The main area of the fire appears to have been ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eye doctors want to negotiate on their own
By Medicine Hat News on July 23rd, 2020
The Eye Physicians and Surgeons Association of Alberta called on the Government of Alberta to negotiate directly with a group of its physicians rather than with the Alberta Medical Association. Minister of Health Tyler Shandro said the previous government had appointed the AMA as the exclusive representative of physicians in legislation in 2018. In order ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pedestrian in motorized wheelchair struck and killed by vehicle on Tuesday
By GILLIAN SLADE on July 23rd, 2020
gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade At about 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening Medicine Hat Police Service responded to a call after a pedestrian was hit by a motor vehicle on Anson Avenue in Tower Estates near the airport. The 71 year-old male pedestrian was transported to hospital and later died from his injuries. Insp. Brent Secondiak says the person, ... Read More »
1 responseMan behind collapsed real estate company guilty of fraud
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 23rd, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The man behind a collapsed real estate company that had dozens of Hatters as investors and once owned a proposed local community has been found guilty of one count of fraud and another of misleading investors. Ronald James Aitkens, who was the controlling mind behind the Foundation Group of Companies, according to court documents, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City won’t access loan program to cover overdue utility money
By COLLIN GALLANT on July 23rd, 2020
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The City of Medicine Hat is currently carrying about $2 million worth of unpaid utility bills one month after a deferral program ended, but the city won’t access interest-free loans provided by the province to tide them over. Local finance officials told the News that about 20 per cent of its monthly utility billings ... Read More »
1 responseHutterite colony near Swift has spike in COVID cases; Sask. adds 60
By Medicine Hat News on July 23rd, 2020
A jump in positive COVID-19 cases in Saskatchewan is being attributed to a Hutterite Colony near Swift Current, according to a release on Wednesday afternoon by the Saskatchewan Health Authority. Across that province, 60 new cases were reported, including 43 on “single communal living setting” in the Rural Municipality of Lawtonia, southeast of Swift Current. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Heat warnings arrive as temperatures soar
By Medicine Hat News on July 23rd, 2020
Right on cue, Medicine Hat is in a heat warning in the third week of July just as Medicine Hat Stampede Week would have kicked off. Festivities are cancelled this year due to the pandemic, but Medicine Hat was the hotspot in Canada at 3 p.m. as the temperature sat at 32.8C. A hot air ... Read More »
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