Business & Economy

Lethbridge joins the Hat in losing Air Canada service

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Air Canada will only be serving the Lethbridge Airport for another couple of weeks.The airline announced that it is "suspending service indefinitely" for their Lethbridge to Calgary r...

Mar 12, 2020

Air Canada grounds Medicine Hat service

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Air Canada will be cancelling service to Medicine Hat at the end of the month as the already economically-strained service has been pushed over the edge of viability by the global C...

Mar 11, 2020

Kenney worried layoffs coming as oil and gas sector struggles with coronavirus

CALGARY - Premier Jason Kenney says time is of the essence as he takes demands for more aid to Alberta businesses to the first ministers meeting in Ottawa this week. Kenney spoke to reporters this mor...

Mar 11, 2020 Canadian Press image

Air Canada to end service in Medicine Hat

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Air Canada is halting service to Medicine Hat effective at the end of the month."While businesses have indicated that they would choose to fly out of Medicine Hat, if the fares were...

Mar 11, 2020

Petition launched to get Highway 3 twinned

MEDICINE HAT, AB - A petition has been launched advocating for Highway 3 to be twinned just as the province is considering new targeted capital spending to help stimulate the Alberta economy.The petit...

Mar 10, 2020

Budget 2020 a go despite tanking oil prices

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Alberta's finance minister was in Medicine Hat Monday but even as he spoke to a gathered crowd of about 50 residents, oil prices were tanking the opposition was calling on a revampi...

Mar 09, 2020 Alberta's finance minister Travis Toews during a Budget 2020 round table discussion in Medicine Hat on Monday. (CHAT News photo).

Alberta economy, reeling from coronavirus, takes gut punch due to oil price war

Alberta's oil-based economy, already reeling by reduced demand due to the novel coronavirus, is now getting a gut punch from global prices.The spiral of oil prices has accelerated due to an all-out pr...

Mar 09, 2020

COVID 19 worries making financial markets sick

TORONTO - Both the Toronto and New York stock markets plunged in the first minutes of trading this morning.A 14 hundred point fall in Toronto and a nearly 19 hundred point plunge on Wall Street trigge...

Mar 09, 2020 The Canadian Press

More than 16,000 natural resource jobs lost in Alberta over past 12 months

MEDICINE HAT, AB - While there is some positive news coming out of the latest job statistics, how good that news is will be largely dependent on the category of occupation as the natural resource sect...

Mar 06, 2020 Alberta's labour market by sector. (Image courtesy of the Alberta government).

Peace country rural municipality calling on oil and gas industry to make good on unpaid taxes

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB - Birch Hills County is calling on oil and gas companies operating within its boundaries to pay up on their tax bills.Birch Hills Reeve Gerald Manzulenko claims a recent audit of 20...

Mar 06, 2020