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Community-led collection of PPE donations for essential workers begins
MEDICINE HAT, AB - It started innocuously enough as a way to crowd source personal protective gear for locals dealing with our community's most vulnerable populations.Over the past week the 'PPE Medic...
Apr 09, 2020 PPE Medicine Hat community liason Kristine Russell accepting a PPE donation on Thursday (Photo courtesy of Ross Lavigne)
Mayor John Tory and sports stars join forces in Team Toronto video
Toronto sports figures from Mitch Marner to Michael Bradley have joined forces with Mayor John Tory in a video urging people to "come together by staying home" during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Apr 09, 2020
Online resource to aid food supply chain, agri-food jobs
The Alberta government has launched an online resource to help strengthen the food supply chain and fill agriculture and agri-food jobs.Keeping Alberta's food supply chain safe and intact is a priorit...
Apr 09, 2020 CHAT News File Photo
Students and staff connect via parade ahead of Easter break
MEDICINE HAT, AB -Teachers and students in Medicine Hat had the chance to see each other today -from a distance.A staff parade was held with teachers from Webster Niblock Elementary School.Students li...
Apr 09, 2020 Young students watch teacher parade with her family April 9, 2020. Photo courtesy Bob Schneider
Lethbridge-Medicine Hat records lowest unemployment rate in province
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta as a whole has shed nearly 40,000 jobs last month compared to March 2019 but the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region is bucking the trend with job growth over the same period, ac...
Apr 09, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
Rossco's Pub donates 300 Easter meals to food bank
MEDICINE HAT, AB -300 donated meals were handed out this week for local families to enjoy on Easter weekend.Owner of Rossco's Pub Ross Beach donated the meals to the Medicine Hat Food Bank.He and his ...
Apr 09, 2020 Photo courtesy Bob Schneider
Good Friday and Easter Sunday services available online this weekend
MEDICINE HAT, AB -Many businesses have gone online over the past few weeks due to COVID-19 public health measures.Churches have been able to continue to spread their message online as well.Meaning, fa...
Apr 09, 2020 Photo courtesy Fifth Avenue United Church Facebook page
Hinshaw thanks Albertans: 'You are saving lives'
Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced 28 new cases of COVID-19 in Alberta, bringing the provincial total to 1,451. There are also 32 deaths, up three from Wednesday. There are no additional cases in the South Z...
Apr 09, 2020
Leafs' Matthews hoping to take care of 'unfinished business' if season resumes
TORONTO - Auston Matthews has been wheeling around his property in Arizona on rollerblades trying to stay in shape. With the NHL on an indefinite pause amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maple Leafs...
Apr 09, 2020
Summit Series star, longtime Blackhawks defenceman Pat Stapleton dead at 79
TORONTO - Pat Stapleton, a longtime NHL defenceman who famously kept an air of mystery over whether he possessed the puck from the goal that won the 1972 Summit Series, has died. He was 79. The Strath...
Apr 09, 2020