@@CollinGallant Less Canadian steel heading south during a trade dispute would theoretically translate to higher supply and potentially lower prices domestically, but local fabricators say grappling with an ever-changing array of tariffs isn’t a simple equation. The greater threat to their bottom lines, they said, is that customers will pause orders and put projects on
Read More »newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com A 29-year-old man has been charged with firearms offences after Brooks RCMP executed a search warrant on a home and seized a .22 rifle along with a stolen e-bicycle. Officers conducted the search of the home Tuesday afternoon and say the stolen e-bicycle was later located abandoned in an alley. The man cannot be ... Read More »
58 mins ago@@CollinGallant Students at Ralston School passed the Invictus Games flag in a hand-to-hand relay on Friday as the British armed forces escort the official banner from the recent event in Vancouver to its next site in Birmingham, England. That edition will be the summer edition of the games, which are a competition venue to aid ... Read More »
58 mins agonewsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Fees at Catholic schools in Medicine Hat will rise next year due to increased costs related to facility rental fees and transportation costs. Trustees approved the fee increases during a public board meeting earlier this week, mainly affecting option classes, extracurricular programming and field trips. Secretary treasurer Greg MacPherson told trustees some division schools ... Read More »
58 mins agojtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb Alberta’s top ringette talent showed up Friday in Medicine Hat. The Medicine Hat Ringette Association’s four-division provincials got underway Friday with U14, U16, Open B and Open C action on display at four rinks around Medicine Hat and area. Both Mustang teams picked up wins on the first day of action. The U14 Mustangs ... Read More »
58 mins agoThe Medicine Hat Tigers got comeback retribution over four months in the making. The Tigers scored four times in the third period Friday, ultimately beating the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-5 in overtime to complete the comeback and recorded a seventh win in a row. Friday’s win comes over four months after the Tigers had a 6-3 ... Read More »
7 hours agojtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat Tigers’ fight for the Eastern conference lead continues into the penultimate weekend of the regular season. The Tigers are at Lethbridge tonight taking on the Hurricanes before they host the Red Deer Rebels on Saturday, four much-needed points for the orange and black who enter the weekend tied in points with ... Read More »
1 day ago@@CollinGallant A portion of Sixth Avenue in front of the Chamber of Commerce will receive a secondary street name – “Commerce Way” – when the chambers across Alberta meet here in May. Not to worry, the non-official effort won’t result in any actual address changes. Such signs also denote the former “Toronto Street” and “Esplanade” ... Read More »
58 mins agoOn that magical night of the Four Nations final, we were one. No East. No West. No English. No French. Just Canada-coast to coast, fists clenched, eyes locked on the screen. And when Connor McDavid buried that overtime winner, it wasn’t just a hockey game we won. It was a moment of unity. A reminder ... Read More »
2 days agoHooray for Premier Danielle Smith, who stood tall last Wednesday by going to bat for Alberta and Canada in the tariff fight against U.S. President Donald Trump. Until she did that, during a press conference in Medicine Hat, Smith had been slapped with a negative label in Canada for not forcefully decrying the tariffs which, ... Read More »
3 days agoRe: Letter to the editor, published Feb. 11 Dear editor, Mr. Elder has presented a very narrow and slanted view to the public regarding the proposed project on the city’s grounds by the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede. It is disheartening for the tens of thousands of Stampede volunteers over the past 130-plus years to ... Read More »
1 week agoDear editor, I am horrified but not surprised by the recent (and timely, ie – let’s show them we care, or better yet, let’s distract them from a really big issue currently in the news) announcement in regards to the plan to build two centres in the province to house those under pseudo arrest using ... Read More »
2 weeks agoDear editor, The line in the sand of truth and consequences has been drawn between the free world and the U.S. thanks to the current president. That president has sided with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Haiti and 10 more countries in voting against a U.N. resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ... Read More »
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