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The Victoria Day Long Weekend in Medicine Hat will start with a jet-fueled blast, continue with a glass of wine at a vineyard and end with a stroll in the park, with several activities to do in town.Read more...
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Hundreds of Hatters may get a new boss today as the battle for control of Canadian Pacific Railway comes to a head at the company's annual general meeting in Calgary. At issue for Medicine Hat's largest private employer is an activist hedge fund investor's attempts to…Read more...
Local News
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The City of Medicine Hat's bylaw officers investigated 145 property standards complaints in the first four months of 2012 and issued 28 orders for property owners to clean up their act, according to numbers released this week by city police.Read more...
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Prairie Rose School Division administration is looking to make only minor tweaks to its emergency policy after reviewing how they handled a large blizzard that hit back in March. "For the most part it very much validated the strength of the emergency plan that we have in place," said Brian…Read more...
Local Sports
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It wasn't as easy as the final score would suggest. In Southern Alberta High School Rugby League play on Wednesday, the Medicine Hat High School Mohawks downed the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Rams 24-7 at Hat High.Read more...
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Hat High's most decorated distance runner cruised to wins in the 800, 1,500 and 3,000 metre senior boys events at the city track and field meet, no surprise considering he went to provincials in all three last year.Read more...
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Commentary
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That's just a fact of Canadian life, but when federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair declared this obvious truth while talking about Alberta's oilsands in an interview, he was slammed for being anti-West and for making the first major gaffe of his new leadership.Read more...
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The following is based on more than 60 years of experience about what matter can mean. Nothing can exist without matter, so if God exists He must be matter. As human beings we have a good connection to primary matter, as it gives us our soul. It doesn't take much…Read more...
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A terrible tragedy occurred with a loss of seven lives on Highway 63 recently. Was it the government's fault? Was it the highway's fault? Or will the final report attribute the cause to human error? We as the human species are not programmed to be perfect.Read more...
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With the generosity of a Medicine Hat restaurant that opened their hearts and donated a portion of their daily sales to our son's upcoming medical costs. Tickled Pink Thanks to the person who wrote in about cyclists on Holsom Road.Read more...
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Canada's first national mental health strategy was unveiled last week and, on paper, it sounds good. Of course, plans are only as good as the action that results. While the federal government said all the right things at the launch of the strategy, it still boils down to "show us…Read more...
Local Entertainment
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Which 1980s multi-platinum and Juno Award-winning Canadian rock band donned trademark red leather pants and sported bandanas and was originally formed in Calgary? Loverboy performs at the Esplanade Monday May 14.Read more...
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In today's metal scene, where the trend is for groups to label themselves by almost infinite subgenres, Naraka is a band that refuses to be defined by such rigid boundaries. Instead embrace the pure root of metal music while adding in tastes of all the twists and turns the genre…Read more...
Life
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Medicine Hat native Dave McGregor will be coming to Medicine Hat next week for business and pleasure. Besides visiting with family members, McGregor will also oversee the opening of two stores in his role as president and CEO of Grafton Inc.Read more...
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"You don't really realize the stress you're under until it's not there," said Turner, who is now jointly running Turners Family Restaurant in the former Smitty's location in the Medicine Hat Mall.Read more...
Sports
- Canada upset by Slovakia in quarter-finals of world hockey championship
- Man United's earnings down, cash reserves halved as club feels impact of early European exit
- Thursday's Scoreboard
- From one cage to another: Zwicker credits family, MMA for turning his life around
- Bayern Munich must regroup against Chelsea in Champions League final
World
- Cuban president's daughter receives US visa to attend conference in San Francisco
- Malcolm X biography among finalists for new book prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal
- Marion Cotillard battles tragedy in Jacques Audiard's Cannes film fest entry 'Rust and Bone'
- A clown at Cannes: Bill Murray soaks up the French Riviera, enthralling the festival
- Applications for US unemployment aid stay at 370,000, level consistent with steady job growth
Business
- Cross-border shopping costs greater than believed even as gap narrows: report
- Sears Canada shares drop 13 per cent as U.S. holding company plans to cut stake
- Facebook set to price initial public offering, could raise $16 billion or more
- Imperial Oil says N.S. refinery for sale due to lower gas demand, competition
- Gauge of US economy dipped 0.1 per cent in April, first setback since last September
Entertainment
- Stage musical of 'Bring It On' leaps to Broadway for a 12-week stand starting in July
- Essence Music Festival in New Orleans adds 4th day of concerts to spotlight rising stars
- Got story? Hollywood happy to build narratives, characters around popular brands
- Nick Stahl, 'Terminator 3' actor who played John Connor, reported missing
- CW network makes big schedule revamp hoping for turnaround
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