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newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Youl Bol, 26, of Brooks, who is a known repeat offender and is currently on conditions that include serving jail time on weekends, was arrested last week for breaching his court conditions and resisting arrest. Mounties say Bol was seen in a suspicious vehicle in the early morning hours of Nov. 8 while conducting ... Read More »

newsdesk@medicinehatnews.com Thursday in Medicine Hat will go down as one of the warmest Nov. 13s on record. At a high of 20.9 degrees Celsius, the city was just 0.2 degrees short of the all-time record of 21.1 degrees, on Nov. 13, 1934, according to data from Environment and Climate Change Canada. It was the warmest ... Read More »

zmason@medicinehatnews.com Shila Sharps initially ran for council because she was a downtown business owner looking for more input on the decisions affecting the city’s core. Over the years of operating her business downtown, Sharps says she saw the bodies making decisions about things like construction and parking, and the downtown business-funded City Centre Development Agency ... Read More »

jtubb@medicinehatnews.com@ReporterTubb The Medicine Hat U15AAA South East Tigers hope the Medicine Hat Hockey Hounds’ illustrious tournament provides a mid-season boost. The Tigers came into the tournament with a 0-11 start to their season, dropping the first two games of the 10-team tournament with a 4-2 loss Thursday to the Thompson Blazers and 3-2 Friday to ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews Most of Rider nation can remember the heart-breaking 13th Man moment in Saskatchewan sports history in 2009 when their beloved Roughriders lost the Grey Cup because of a too many men on the field call when the Als missed a field-goal. Given another attempt, Montreal made it. The Als quarterback that fateful day in ... Read More »

sports@medicinehatnews.com@MedicineHatNews The Western Hockey League announced disciplinary action Friday following two separate investigations following breaches of the WHL’s Standard of Conduct. The WHL released the findings of two conduct investigations involving Swift Current Broncos head coach Dean DeSilva and Lethbridge Hurricanes general manager Peter Anholt. In Swift Current, the WHL issued a five-game suspension to ... Read More »

Have you ever been reliant on someone or something to open a door, drive you somewhere, or even help you with simple bathroom tasks like having a shower, brushing your teeth or even using the toilet? If you have not, trust me when I tell you it is a very humbling experience for anyone at ... Read More »

Can Pierre Poilievre gather enough support at January’s leadership review to remain the Conservative Party of Canada boss? Normally, such reviews require a leader to get about 67 per cent support from delegates, but Poilievre could have trouble reaching that threshold after recent events. Late last winter, Poilievre had the CPC in perfect position to ... 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 »

Dear editor, As all of us know, (Monday was) Remembrance Day. As many of us do not know, the Government of Canada estimates veterans at risk or experiencing homelessness to be approximately 2,600. Other reports suggest the number could be up to 10,000. There are extreme data challenges in calculating these numbers, perhaps because most ... 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 »