Opinions
Laying It Out: Uniting just to win just means everyone loses
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 22nd, 2021
“The lesson of Alberta’s 2015 and 2019 elections is that when conservatives are united, they win. When they aren’t, they lose. It’s up to the UCP caucus members to decide which it will be.” — Katy Merrifield, National Post op-ed Former communications director to Premier Jason Kenney, Katy Merrifield, is getting pretty outspoken within her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!MLA Report: What’s next?
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 21st, 2021
By now you have likely heard the news. I am no longer a member of the United Conservative Party caucus. First and foremost, I want to thank everybody who has reached out to me with your kind words and support. I have received hundreds of emails and letters of encouragement, and I want you to ... Read More »
1 responseFor What It’s Worth: Trouble in the Holy Land … again
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 20th, 2021
Tensions have once again boiled over in the nearly century-long conflict between Israel and Palestine. Thousands of rockets have been launched by both sides: resulting in the obliteration of neighbourhoods and hundreds of innocent lives being lost. The events have spurred mass protests around the world, including in Canada. Like most protests nowadays, they are ... Read More »
1 responseLaying It Out: Unity like this was never going to last
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 15th, 2021
Medicine Hat News The formality of kicking two MLAs out of caucus simply makes official what all of Alberta has known for some time. There is nothing united about the United Conservative Party. When Todd Loewen resigned his position as caucus chair and asked Jason Kenney to resign his as premier, the news of dissent ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Digitized Koffee: How to create unique passwords you won’t have to memorize
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 14th, 2021
The first rule of Internet safety: Create a strong password! Creating strong passwords may seem like a daunting task, especially when the recommendation is to have a unique password for each site you visit. Anyone would be overwhelmed if they had to create and memorize multiple passwords like Yt9v-43QS53^rW. You may be using one identical ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!McCuaig: News will continue to do what it has always done
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 14th, 2021
The Medicine Hat News has reported on this region for more than 135 years, including its first 20-year period when it was part of the North West Territories. The paper reported on the formation of the province in 1905, the First World War as well as the last major pandemic to hit the region following ... Read More »
1 responseGuest Column: Why is the thought of homeless people walking down the street and finding connection such a concern?
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 11th, 2021
his was the first time in 10 years that I did not recognize my community. It would be unfair to say it wasn’t always there, but rather, I haven’t encountered it to this degree. Perhaps it was the stressors of the pandemic, the threat of livelihoods or businesses being lost. Perhaps it was the fact ... Read More »
1 responseLaying It Out: Living with COVID was a bad idea then, and it’s a terrible idea now
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 8th, 2021
For more than a year we’ve heard leaders talk about “flattening” or “bending” the curve of COVID-19. And before a year of living in a global pandemic, plus talking to epidemiologists, ER doctors, developmental biologists and more, it even made sense. “We have to live with the virus.” At that point, when everyone from the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: CCDA breathing new life as vote to kill it looms
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 8th, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The fate of the CCDA goes to the ballot box next week, with voting by the members of the downtown business association on whether to dissolve the near-40-year-old group that seems to have some momentous internal struggle at least twice a year. But even a ‘no’ vote this week likely won’t mean the book ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta in Confederation
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 6th, 2021
It is quite evident that Canada’s Confederation is not working harmoniously. Ottawa is failing the regions outside 1867 Canada [Ontario and Quebec]. Such assessment warrants examination. A 2020 publication, Moment of Truth, includes numerous articles which have been compiled by Jack M. Mintz, Ted Morton and Tom Flanagan, the School of Public Policy, University of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City Notebook: And so it continues
By Medicine Hat News Opinion on May 1st, 2021
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant Today is May 1, which most of the world celebrates as Labour Day, and though the North American labour day is still on the other side of summer, it might be wise to use this as a sort of target as we move into an unwanted new phase of the pandemic. Sure we all ... Read More »
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