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news@medicinehatnews.com For the third consecutive weekend the city is hosting another block party during its summer series at Towne Square with the theme of celebrating childhood. The series of weekly block parties provides free activities, games, entertainment for residents every Saturday to help cultivate the vibrancy by extending programming efforts downtown. Celebrating Childhood runs from ... Read More »

@MedicineHatNews A major greenhouse in Medicine Hat will officially apply to change its use to reflect that it grows vegetables, not cannabis, this week. The municipal planning commission will meet Wednesday to hear an application from Bevo Farms related to its facility at 3101 Box Springs Way, better known at the Aurora Sun greenhouse. That ... Read More »

bmiller@medicinehatnews.com This Canada Day long weekend several events are planned throughout the region including two firework shows Sunday and Monday evening. Celebrations kick off Sunday as the Medicine Hat Skateboard Association is hosting several events at Kin Coulee Park. Along with traditional skateboarding the association is hosting live music and an outdoor dance party that ... Read More »

The Medicine Hat Mavericks came up short in a back-and-forth affair Saturday night. The Mavs traded runs throughout the night with the Okotoks Dawgs, ultimately falling 6-5 in the 12th inning. Medicine Hat came into the contest off a 9-8 win Friday at Okotoks over the Dawgs. The Mavs opened the contest in the first ... Read More »

Medicine Hat Tigers forward Andrew Basha gets to call his hometown, his NHL home. The 18-year-old forward was selected 41st overall by the Calgary Flames, being the ninth pick of the second round of the NHL’s Entry Draft Saturday at Las Vegas. Basha worked his way into a late first-round touted prospect with a standout ... Read More »

Brady Bean is back for a second summer as a Medicine Hat Maverick and has brought a new approach to his game. The Kennewick, Wash., product joined the Mavs in the middle of June due to an extended playoff run in his first year at the NCAA Div. I level with the Portland Pilots. They ... Read More »

@@CollinGallant Lethbridge College is now Lethbridge Polytechnic, which is kind of surprising and isn’t. The change, to offer apprentice programs alongside diplomas, was announced this week after several other schools – Red Deer College and Grande Prairie – received similar change in scope. Didn’t they get the “Campus Alberta” memo 10 years ago when the ... Read More »

The New York Times posted a story this week wondering whether society has reached a peak as far as baby names go. The world was agog a few years ago when actress Gwyneth Paltrow named her baby girl Apple, but some of the more recent baby names have gone far beyond the norm. Such as ... Read More »

Canada’s Conservative Opposition has worked tirelessly during this last session of Parliament to hold the Liberal government accountable and bring common sense leadership back to Ottawa. With the House of Commons now recessed for the summer, I’m proud to reflect on the efforts our Conservative caucus made on matters from inflationary spending, tax increases and ... Read More »

Dear editor, The Alberta Pension Plan is good for Albertans. It is constitutionally guaranteed that a province may withdraw from the Canadian Pension Plan and there is a formula for determining the amount owing to any province (in this case, Alberta) based on the amounts paid into it and withdrawn. Since Albertans consistently pay more ... Read More »

Dear editor, I am concerned about threats to abandon the successful, portable and trusted Canada Pension Plan. Pension plans are obviously not as simple as Mr. Younger’s contributions, paying for Mr. Older’s pension. I am not an actuarial authority, (just an opinionated old retired engineer), but my main concern is that many pension plans ultimately ... Read More »

Dear editor, Kudos to Andrea Webb for the recent Municipal Matters column on rural renewal program co-ordinator, Tracy Tawiah. Thank you for introducing us to a member of the city’s staff; it was very interesting. We could use more columns like this. I would be very interested in learning more about the people who work ... Read More »