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newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com The city will host its annual Remembrance Day service at the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre this morning with doors opening at 8:30 a.m. and the ceremony at 9:25 a.m. Following the ceremony, veterans, service members, cadets and members of the Royal Canadian Legion Robertson Memorial Medicine Hat Branch No. 17 will participate in ... Read More »

zmason@medicinehatnews.com Cypress County Reeve Dan Hamilton says he is concerned about a lack of RCMP resources in his county after a letter he wrote to MLA Justin Wright was raised in legislature last week. The RCMP says the account Wright and Hamilton provided of a July incident was false. Following the News’ article Saturday, Cypress ... Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Addressing a gap in the budget and recognizing a need to manage city reserves were two topics emphasized by staff toward newly elected members and Mayor Linnsie Clark in council’s first public meeting since taking their oaths of office. Jaret Dickie, manager of corporate planning and performance, provided council a presentation on how municipal ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Medicine Hat U15AAA South East Tigers lost their tuneup games for the Hockey Hounds tournament this week. The Tigers were shutout 4-0 Saturday by the Calgary Royals before falling 9-1 Sunday to the Calgary Bisons. In Saturday’s loss, Hunter Munro made 63 saves for the Tigers. Raylan Johnson scored the Tigers’ lone goal ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The South Alberta Hockey Academy’s U18 men’s team ended the weekend with a win. SAHA had two home games over the weekend at the Big Marble Go Centre, losing 4-0 Friday to Edge School before beating the Calgary International Hockey Academy 9-5 on Saturday. Hunter Zawislak made 23 saves in Friday’s shutout loss. Carson ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Crescent Heights Vikings lost Friday night in their return from the strike-action pause. The Vikings lost 36-7 to the Willow Creek Cobras, losing in their lone 3A Southland playoff matchup. The ASAA High School provincial playoffs begin Saturday, though none of Medicine Hat’s three senior high school teams qualified... Read More »

Thomas Lukaszuk’s ‘Alberta Forever Campaign’ has been ultra successful and it looks like any referendum that Alberta voters might face will have his movement’s question on the ballot. “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?” was the question that drew the Lukaszuk-led petition to garner more than 450,000 signatures from Albertans this summer ... Read More »

As you might recall, I wrote last week on the first six chapters of Stewart “Brittlestar” Reynold’s book Lessons from Cats for Surviving Fascism. Today I would like to share with you the remaining five chapters. Chapter seven is all about using your cuteness as an advantage. The chapter starts off by telling the reader ... Read More »

“Mr. Speaker, the democratic process matters. We are elected by Albertans to come to this assembly to make sure everything that comes out of it is debated, vetted, tweaked, adjusted and voted on to represent our constituents’ views. That is how this is supposed to work. But the arrogance of this government is astounding. Bills ... Read More »

Dear editor, I am writing to you today as a former and proud student of Webster Niblock Elementary School. Webster Niblock was vitally important in shaping the person I am today and providing the foundational education that prepared me for my life’s work. I have just celebrated my 25th year of teaching, a career path ... Read More »

Dear editor, Three important problems directly leading to the teachers’ strike are exclusively of the UCP’s own making. Firstly, they brag about attracting new people to Alberta but seem unable to comprehend that more new people means more new students. Alberta spends the least amount of money on public education in Canada, per student, thus, ... Read More »

Dear editor, I live in the Southview area and I want to share my Halloween treat. A group of five or six young gentlemen (Grade 6’ish?) approach my door. Upon opening it, they began singing “O Canada.” I was deeply touched by this gesture. When one young man expressed his love for Canada, I reciprocate ... Read More »