Opinions
Ensuring trucks are road-worthy
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 20th, 2018
The ability of commercial truck drivers to do their job safely has been in the news in the wake of last spring’s crash involving the Humboldt Broncos hockey team. As a result, there’s been a push to ensure drivers are sufficiently trained, with both industry and government working to put policies in place to make ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stat holiday a good first step, but more needs to be done
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 18th, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced earlier this week that the government is creating a new statutory holiday to honour the victims of residential schools, which snatched aboriginal children from their parents as recently as 1996. While this is no doubt a positive development, both for Indigenous people who are gaining increasing recognition of their plight ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Report: Carbon taxes and hiding from reality
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 17th, 2018
Well, there you have it. Even Justin Trudeau’s federal government now concedes that carbon taxes pose a significant threat to Canada’s economy. In case you missed it, last week the federal government announced plans to roll back its plan for carbon taxes on major industries. The taxes on all major emitters are to be reduced, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Report: Carbon taxes and hiding from reality
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 17th, 2018
Well, there you have it. Even Justin Trudeau’s federal government now concedes that carbon taxes pose a significant threat to Canada’s economy. In case you missed it, last week the federal government announced plans to roll back its plan for carbon taxes on major industries. The taxes on all major emitters are to be reduced, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Governments must believe the science about climate change
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 17th, 2018
Even — or especially — among those who agree human-caused global warming is happening, the footnote has been the understanding that no individual weather event or catastrophe is caused by the overall temperature rise. Until this summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s not just hot here in California, where it’s always hot in July, August ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLAReport: Carbon taxes and hiding from reality
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 17th, 2018
Well, there you have it. Even Justin Trudeau’s federal government now concedes that carbon taxes pose a significant threat to Canada’s economy. In case you missed it, last week the federal government announced plans to roll back its plan for carbon taxes on major industries. The taxes on all major emitters are to be reduced, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Media the enemy? Yes, of ignorance
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 16th, 2018
Donald Trump may be redefining how politics are played in the United States, but real danger comes if citizens allow him or any one person the power to define who is and isn’t a so-called “enemy of the people.” Newspapers across the United States today are coordinating their editorial page topics to argue against his ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How decisions are made
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 15th, 2018
Sir John A. Macdonald will no longer stand outside Victoria’s city hall. As his statue disappears out of public view, we should be concerned about how it happened. Victoria council approved a recommendation on Thursday to remove the statue and put it in storage until a decision is made about whether or where it should ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Broken ties are no loss
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 14th, 2018
It’s unfortunate thousands of Saudi Arabian students are getting caught in the crossfire as a new school year is about to begin, but the breakdown of relations between Canada and the Middle Eastern kingdom is news we can cheer. Saudi Arabia is mad that Canada’s Global Affairs department tweeted it was “gravely concerned about additional ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NAFTA deal must be worth effort
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 13th, 2018
As NAFTA heads into its possible endgame, with fast-track negotiations set to begin in the next week in the hopes of coming to some type of final agreement before the U.S. Congressional elections kick off later this fall, many in Canada are wondering what we may yet have to give up to ensure a final ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: In Greyhound’s wake, gov’t should stay off the bus
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 13th, 2018
Troy Media Western Canadian bus riders have received an early Halloween scare: as of Oct. 31, 2018, Greyhound won’t offer passenger routes west of Ontario. For the company, it means 415 fewer employees and two million fewer passenger rides each year. For bus riders in remote areas, a vital link has been cut. Some advocates ... Read More »
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