Opinions
National Affairs: The terrible part of NAFTA that Canada wants to keep, for now
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 20th, 2018
Canada is going all-out to save the North American Free Trade Agreement. The ruling Liberal government has even enlisted the help of the opposition Conservatives in this crusade. Rumours suggesting that U.S. President Donald Trump might kill the pact have cast a pall over official Ottawa. Yet a new study shows that in at least ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Report: U.S. politics are obscuring important topics closer to home
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 19th, 2018
It seems these days that many Albertans have found rich entertainment watching American politics. Love or dislike what is happening south of the border, it is obscuring two things that are important, closer to home. First, for many years, there were three big names in Canadian conservative politics.Former prime minister Stephen Harper was one of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta-Sask. tiff about more than just licence plates
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 18th, 2018
Medicine Hat popped up on western newswires this week as the preferred spot by the Saskatchewan government to resolve an interprovincial trade dispute. Even in a town that is craving publicity, one can only continue to scratch one’s head trying to make sense of the entire controversy. The geography is a no brainer — possibly ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The different meanings behind ‘where are you from?’
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 17th, 2018
“What’s in a name? (Would not) that which we call a rose, by any other word smell as sweet?” Not if you are like many Canadians who continue to make an “other” out of those born in Canada with last names which reflect ethnic origins not of the British isles or of France. In southern ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Guest Column: Trump is the emperor without clothes, possibly the ‘biggest, most dangerous the world has ever seen’
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 13th, 2018
I am a news addict. I listen to the news in the car and at home and talk about it with co-workers, friends, and even complete strangers sometimes. The news is one of those ‘windows onto the world’ that can give us a sense of where our world is going. I can’t avert my gaze ... Read More »
2 responsesMarple’s courage in going public with dementia diagnosis has had benefits
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 12th, 2018
Being bold enough to put a name and face to it takes courage. There are all sorts of issues that make Hatters annoyed. Some choose to leave an anonymous comment for Ticked Off & Tickled Pink. Others make a telephone call to the News and vent. It is fairly rare for an individual to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadians should be angrily fired up over bread ripoff
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 11th, 2018
Fixing bread prices seems as though it would be more of an issue during the French or Russian Revolutions than in our modern world. However, the current case of companies accused of adding pennies to loaves over the course of the last 14 years should be a call to arms for citizens. Considering that our ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Oprah is not the answer
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 10th, 2018
Whether Oprah Winfrey runs for president in 2020 or not, it will not miraculously change what is wrong with America. In fact, it might even be detrimental to American society as a whole if she does run. The last thing the United States needs is another over-exposed celebrity setting its political agenda, cloistered in notions ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Economics 101
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 8th, 2018
I am always amused by people who demand more services from government, lower taxes for them and want to tax the rich and the corporations more and more. These people obviously have no concept of where money comes from. The money comes from work, effort and risk along with due diligence. Some in the U.S. ... Read More »
2 responsesWe should take a closer look at how we treat our most vulnerable
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 5th, 2018
How quickly we forget a lesson learned nine years ago. On Jan. 6, 2009, a homeless man was found dead outside the Medicine Hat Public Library. It was around 2 p.m. before anyone even noticed him wedged between an exterior wall of the library and a parallel decorative, perforated wall. “He was in the fetal ... Read More »
1 responseComing up in 2018: Mundane, but necessary work at municipal level
By Medicine Hat News Opinon on January 4th, 2018
The changing over of the calendar will always bring with it some new optimism, a hope for better times, even an easier go of things. But, with the bottles of bubbly now drained and confetti cleared away, the road ahead for City Hall shows a lot work on the agenda. Mayor Ted Clugston ran a ... Read More »
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