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The Mustard Seed brings a solid track record of helping those in poverty

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 6th, 2019

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade The Mustard Seed will soon be operating in Medicine Hat, attending to the needs of those living in poverty. The organization has a proven track record after decades of service in Calgary and Edmonton. They have identified a need here and are working hard to address that need with compassion and innovative ideas. They ... Read More »

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Get ready, the campaign is almost upon us

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on September 5th, 2019

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant September sends us back to school and October will send us back to the polls. And while the Canadian political landscape has been percolating, is there any reason to suspect we won’t see a rerun of the recent campaign in Alberta or last year’s in Ontario? Forgetting outcomes for a moment, both elections were ... Read More »

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MLA Report: Alberta deserves a fair deal

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 29th, 2019

With a little under two months until our next federal election, it is important for us to remember what is at stake when Canadians head to the polls on Oct. 21. This isn’t an election like most. In Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have done all they can to hold back Alberta and stand in the ... Read More »

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All Canadians can benefit from immigration

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 29th, 2019

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade As a society we pride ourselves on being inclusive, multicultural and a community that welcomes immigrants. Those sound good and can even flow off the tongue but the reality can be very different. A recent comment in this paper’s Ticked Off and Tickled Pink feature has someone responding to an individual that must have ... Read More »

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Minimum wage changes have lessons for youth

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 29th, 2019

collingallant@medicinehatnews.com@CollinGallant The combination of Labour Day, back-to-school and new changes to minimum wage should provide a teachable moment for young people in the workforce and indeed all of us. One of the many and lengthy politicized issues in Alberta this summer and the past few years has been changes to minimum wage. Now the new ... Read More »

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National Affairs: SNC-Lavalin affair isn’t hurting PM in the polls

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 24th, 2019

Even before the Liberals used their majority on a parliamentary committee on Wednesday to shut down future inquiries into the federal ethics commissioner’s scathing report about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin file, there were signs that Mario Dion’s findings were not destined to become a turning point of the pre-election season. By ... Read More »

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Making a mockery of the office of the ethics commissioner

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 23rd, 2019

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade What on earth is the point of having an ethics commissioner’s investigation and report when it can just be ignored? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a mockery of that office and its intended role. Trudeau says he accepts the report, but does not agree with it and so still stands by what he ... Read More »

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MLA Report: The path to growth, opportunities for families and communities

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 23rd, 2019

Herbert Hoover in an address to the Nebraska Republican Conference in Lincoln, Neb. on Jan. 16, 1936 stated, “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.” If only Hoover had known the future. The statement is not country specific, it is a concept that applies to all free market democratic countries. Here ... Read More »

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New documentary could shed some light on climate policy in the runup to October’s federal election

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 17th, 2019

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade With the federal election just two months away, the timing of the ethics commissioner’s report about the SNC-Lavalin affair could not have been worse for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said Trudeau violated the Conflict of Interest Act by improperly pressuring then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to halt the criminal prosecution of ... Read More »

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National Affairs: Fate of PM rests with voters

By medicinehatnews on August 16th, 2019

Where to start? The ethics commissioner report on the SNC-Lavalin affair contains the most damning findings ever rendered by an officer of Parliament against a sitting prime minister. Yes, Jean ChrĂ©tien and Paul Martin were splattered by the sponsorship scandal. And Stephen Harper spent his last year in office embroiled in a Senate scandal that ... Read More »

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Are we getting value for our health care dollars?

By Medicine Hat News Opinon on August 9th, 2019

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade The Fraser Institute says an average Canadian family of four will pay $13,311 this year for government health care. That is a 65.8 per cent increase in 22 years. Additionally, you pay for dental, eye care, massage therapy and prescriptions, or pay a premium for private coverage for this. It is important for Canadians, ... Read More »

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