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asmith@medicinehatnews.com Today outside city hall, local canvassers will collect signatures for one vital question: Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada? The citizen initiative petition, put forward by former MLA and Alberta cabinet minister Thomas Lukaszuk and held through Elections Alberta, is having signatures collected across the province, with a goal of 300,000 ... Read More »

Hatters with an itch to swim at Echo Dale Regional Park may want to look elsewhere to scratch it. The city announced Wednesday that parks and recreation staff had found the presence of aquatic life that can produce swimmer’s itch in the Echo Dale swim lake and boat lake. They say staff are working to ... Read More »

asmith@medicinehatnews.com City council candidate Kelly Allard aims to bring council back on track with co-operation, open information and made-in-Medicine Hat solutions. This is not the first time Allard has run for council, something she was spurred on to from a growing dissatisfaction with how the municipal government has addressed a variety of issues over past ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Western Canadian Baseball League’s championship will spend the offseason in a new city. The Regina Red Sox and Sylvan Lake Gulls meet in the WCBL finals starting tonight in Regina, with both clubs vying for the Harry Hallis Memorial Trophy. It’s the first season since 2021 when the Lethbridge Bulls were crowned champions, ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews he Game of the Year, at least at the halfway point of the season, features the division leaders, Hamilton and Saskatchewan, Saturday at Mosaic Stadium. Billed as a Grey Cup preview, a showdown for bragging rights in the CFL. It’s THE BIG GAME. Both teams future Hall of Fame-level quarterbacks in Bo Levi Mitchell ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The semifinals of the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup may have Medicine Hat Tigers fans divided. Team Canada with Tigers forwards Markus and Liam Ruck will face the United States with Tabbies’ forwards Shaeffer Gordon-Carroll and Noah Davidson on Friday at 11 a.m. MST with a spot in the gold medal final on the line. ... Read More »

Book No. 4, Blankets by Craig Thompson, is the last in the list of books I vowed to read as it pertains to our government’s ridiculous notion that book banning in schools is acceptable in 2025. Here is my review of this 582-page graphic novel. First, it contains the most powerful images and text I ... Read More »

So far, Medicine Hat has two people officially in the running for mayor, although a third, former UCP MLA Drew Barnes, said in a News article last week that he, too, would be filing papers to be on the ballot Oct. 20. Alan Rose was the first to declare his intention to run for mayor, ... Read More »

The What Matters to Hatters Coalition remains focused on reducing stigma related to substance use and mental illness in our community by promoting the importance of kindness and connection. We believe everyone should be offered kindness and connection, including people who may be struggling with substance use disorder or mental illness. For many, their trauma ... Read More »

Dear editor: Larry Simcoe’s recent letter to the editor has some accurate facts but some inaccurate assumptions regarding the Canada Pension Plan and retirement. First off, the CPP is a real pension. Its initial structure (1966) was not a pension plan, but reforms enacted in 1998 turned the CPP into a real pension plan, independent ... Read More »

Dear editor, It has been said many times, “justice delayed is justice denied.” I do not believe we are entirely forsaken yet, because there has finally been some movement in the court proceedings against the local podcaster Thomas Fougere. After the past nine months with numerous previous appearances through an agent, a plea of not ... Read More »

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