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Noteworthy: A little courtesy goes a long way out there
By Bruce Penton on February 19th, 2025
You’re driving along, in no particular hurry, and you notice another driver is trying to merge into your lane. Being the kind and considerate person that you are, you slow down and give the other driver the opportunity to do so. When they get in the lane ahead of you, do you receive the ‘thank-you’ ... Read More »
1 responseLet’s Chat: Flag means freedom
By Linda Tooth on February 19th, 2025
I never really understood the history of our Canadian flag as it celebrated its 60th anniversary on Feb. 1. I was intrigued by the advertisements I was seeing on TV regarding a day I was ignorant about. What really caught my attention was the fact I am almost as young as our flag. Let me ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: Glimpses of straight talk at council
By Collin Gallant on February 15th, 2025
@@CollinGallant As this week’s public hearing into the Inter-municipal Development Plan threatened to spiral into another complaint session about how stupid-governments-are-ruining-everything, audience members were treated to another instalment of “Linnsie Clark, attorney at law!” The former city lawyer, turned top elected official, had a day job writing and explaining bylaws and land development, contract interests, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Let’s Chat: Write your story
By Linda Tooth on February 12th, 2025
Sharing your life story is challenging yet rewarding at the same time. Challenging in the fact that everyone who reads it is now privy to the successes and failures you have experienced during your life, but rewarding in that you are publicly, for all to read, thanking those who have been a part of your ... Read More »
4 responsesNoteworthy: Help our local skateboarders in their effort to end period poverty
By Bruce Penton on February 12th, 2025
Terence Kowalchuk of the ambitious Medicine Hat Skateboard Association sends along a note to say that his group, in partnership with the Root Cellar, is going on a final push in its ‘End Period Poverty’ campaign. Last year, when a group of skateboarders went to Mexico to help in a girls’ home, they learned they ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: Don’t just buy Canadian, build Canadian
By Collin Gallant on February 8th, 2025
@@CollinGallant So this column’s prediction last week that U.S. trade tariffs may or may not be in place after a deadline last weekend may or may not have turned out to be true. But it’s certainly lit a fire under Canada’s collective feet to start hashing out strategies to strengthen the domestic economy, or at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Laying it Out: In Alberta, apparently we only act tough when we face East
By Scott Schmidt on February 8th, 2025
Following the #BestSummerEver as issued in by former premier Jason Kenney in the oh so distant year of 2021, 57 human beings in Medicine Hat lost their lives over 60 days. It was the single deadliest one-cause killer over a two-month period in the city’s history. During that stretch, Dr. Paul Parks said the situation ... Read More »
3 responsesLet’s Chat: Thrift happens
By Linda Tooth on February 5th, 2025
I want to follow up with an article I wrote in October regarding my love of thrifting. Remember, thrifting is “the activity of looking for or buying goods from thrift stores or other places that sell used things such as clothes, books, or furniture,” according to the Cambridge Dictionary. I mentioned I wanted to get ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Noteworthy: Respect for the U.S. is dropping fast, but who can blame us?
By Bruce Penton on February 5th, 2025
That hockey fans in Ottawa booed the Star Spangled Banner at the start of the Senators-Minnesota game last Saturday wasn’t really a shocker, but the fact fans in Calgary didn’t do the same thing a few hours later was a bit surprising. Why should Canadians show respect and honour to the anthem of a nation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: Donald Trump 2.0 arrives on Groundhog Day
By Collin Gallant on February 1st, 2025
@@CollinGallant The end of January has been a trip down memory lane for “the media” as it attempt to get a grip on what’s coming out of Washington, D.C. A tariff threat from the once and new U.S. President Donald Trump was supposed to happen on inauguration day, then maybe not oil, or maybe two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Let’s Chat: From VR to the ER
By Linda Tooth on January 29th, 2025
I saw a recent article in the newspaper regarding Crestwood STEM School and how virtual reality is something they are teaching young people. Let me tell you why I think this might be something older people should steer clear of. According to TechTarget, VR is defined as “a three dimensional environment that lets users explore ... Read More »
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