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Feds will increase annual health transfer and offer targeted funding with conditions
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will offer the provinces a "significant" increase to the Canada Health Transfer and additional money if they agree to one-on-one deals targeting specific problem areas in...
Feb 06, 2023
Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge makes in-person return
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge is coming back to Medicine Hat.On Feb. 19 at 2 p.m., the event will be held at the Big Marble Go Centre. It will be held in-person for the...
Feb 06, 2023
Curlers ask for transparency and communication after pregnancy exemption uproar
A Canadian interim rep for the Curling Players' Association has renewed a call for improved transparency and collaboration with Curling Canada after an uproar about pregnancy exemption rules resulted ...
Feb 06, 2023
Outdoor smoking bylaw on tonight's city council agenda
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Tonight Medicine Hat city council will meet for its regular scheduled meeting with outdoor smoking on the agenda. A new bylaw aimed to limit outdoor smoking and vaping will receive ...
Feb 06, 2023
Canada's first Indigenous languages commissioner hopes to be operating by summer
OTTAWA - Canada's first commissioner of Indigenous languages says he hopes to have his office fully operational by the summer - about two years after it was first announced. Ronald Ignace appeared bef...
Feb 06, 2023
NHL all-star festivities netted some surprising results for Proline bettors
TORONTO - The NHL all-star festivities presented a few surprises for Proline customers. The league's best gathered last weekend in Florida but according to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., just 3...
Feb 06, 2023
McKinsey doesn't meet criteria for banning company from federal contracts: bureaucrat
OTTAWA - The deputy minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada says the federal government's ethics rules do not disqualify consulting firm McKinsey & Company from doing business with the ...
Feb 06, 2023
Panleukopenia outbreak over at APARC
MEDICINE HAT, AB - After dealing with an outbreak of panleukopenia for most of January, this month began with some good news at the Alberta Pound & Rescue Centre - Medicine Hat.The outbreak has be...
Feb 06, 2023
B.C. fire tanker crashes in Australia, both on board safe: owner
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - A Boeing 737 air tanker owned by a British Columbia company has crashed in western Australia while on deployment to a fire. Coulson Aviation, based in Port Alberni on Vancouver Is...
Feb 06, 2023
Noon Interview: Linnsie Clark and Shawn Champagne Feb. 6
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Mayor Linnsie Clark has been a big booster of the Strong Towns Community Action Lab, and the City of Medicine Hat is one of only four communities chosen to take part in the inaugura...
Feb 06, 2023