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Blue Jays' Borucki suspended 3 games for plunking Kiermaier
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Toronto Blue Jays reliever Ryan Borucki has been suspended for three games by Major League Baseball for intentionally hitting Tampa Bay's Kevin Kiermaier with a pitch in the latest ...
Sep 23, 2021
House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump advisers, associates
WASHINGTON (AP) - A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed four advisers and associates to former President Donald Trump who were in contact with him ...
Sep 23, 2021
Conflicting viewpoints on MLA Glasgo from her constituency board
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Brooks-Medicine Hat MLA Michaela Glasgo is facing some jarring criticism from the president of her own constituency board today.Local UCP association president Jeremiah Benoit says ...
Sep 23, 2021
Overflowing ICU impacts care for 'every single sick person in Alberta'
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The overflowing ICU in the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital is forcing some patients to be transferred to other wards.Dr. Paul Parks, an emergency room physician at the hospital, says...
Sep 23, 2021
Premiers urge Trudeau to meet with them ASAP on health-care funding
CHILLIWACK - Canada's premiers are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to meet with them at his earliest opportunity to discuss long-term, predictable funding for health care. Premiers from all the p...
Sep 23, 2021
Massive B.C. wildfire causes $77 million in insurance damage
VANCOUVER - A wildfire that began on Aug. 2 in British Columbia and grew to more than 833 square kilometres is now estimated to have caused $77 million in insurance damage. The cost estimate from the ...
Sep 23, 2021
City to use Restrictions Exemption Program at select facilities
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The City of Medicine Hat will implement the provincial Restrictions Exemption Program (REP) at some city facilities.The REP will go into effect at Co-op Place at 9 p.m. tonight. On ...
Sep 23, 2021
Ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont detained in Sardinia
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was detained Thursday in Sardinia, Italy, his lawyer said. Lawyer Gonzalo Boye wrote on Twitter that the ex-Catalan regional president, ...
Sep 23, 2021
Captaincy, Gaudreau's contract status the plot lines of Calgary Flames training camp
CALGARY - Replacing the leadership and minutes of departed captain Mark Giordano is a burning issue at Calgary Flames training camp. After eight years wearing the 'C ' and leading the team in ice time...
Sep 23, 2021
COVID-19 hospitalizations, ICU admissions continue to rise in Medicine Hat
Alberta continues to face unprecedented challenges to its health system in the fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by unvaccinated people."100 per cent of new ICU admissions were in Albertans who did not ...
Sep 23, 2021