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Man found dead in Mounties shooting case; search on for suspect

KILLAM, Alta. - RCMP confirm one man has been found dead in a rural Alberta house where two Mounties were shot.

Four-day 'lei' over has WestJet Maui customers fuming

After waiting many hours on each of four days for WestJet to provide a replacement flight from Maui, a Medicine Hat resident says the "lei over" in Maui was badly handled and the compensation WestJet offered after it was all over was an insult.

Cuts can solve tax hike: alderman

Jeremy Thompson is confident that a possible property tax hike of 4.9 per cent can be cut in half by relatively painless cuts and reorganizations in city operations. On Monday, the alderman's queries about reducing a three-year budget plan by using a zero-based budget approach was met by a long list of eye-popping suggestions for cuts.

Incident ends in body found

City police and Redcliff RCMP attended an incident on North Railway Street Tuesday evening shortly after 8 p.m. A body was reportedly found at the scene. A white SUV parked on the south side of North Railway was towed away by police.

Rare off-night for Hounds

The bantam AAA Hockey Hounds had a reality check game Saturday. The Hounds have led the Ram South Division of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League basically from wire to wire this season.

Rattlers pull a tease Men's volleyball club shows potential in split with first place team

While they are battling for the last playoff berth in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference, the Rattlers pulled out a split off of the conference's first place team in the Briercrest College Clippers.

Not what the captain ordered Mayer disappointed Cubs miss post-season for second year in a row

Logan Mayer is going to have the whole off-season to think about the ones that got away. As his Medicine Hat Hockey Hounds Cubs headed into their final weekend of regular season play, they were in the driver's seat for locking down a playoff berth.

Review: Authentic Cochrane wows crowd in Hat

A hooting, whistling, cheering and completely enthusiastic crowd greeted Cochrane, who brought with him the arsenal of songs that has made him a Canadian staple for decades.

Environmental design is key, Hatters hear

"Permaculture is a design system based in science, guided by ethics, inspired by nature to design sustainable habitat," said Rob Avis with Calgary-based Verge Permaculture, who led the full-day workshop attended by 13 locals at Medicine Hat College.

Spring ski conditions in February

"It's cool because there's no snow in Medicine Hat to shovel, but there's snow out here," said 16-year-old Dylan Yeast, who spent Sunday snowboarding at Hidden Valley Ski Resort in Cypress Hills alongside his friend Ozzy Schimpf.



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Local News

  • WestJet’s employees have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a regional airline and the aircraft they are planning to purchase are capable of flying out of Medicine Hat Regional Airport (MHRA).
    “There’s absolutely no problem with the existing runway,” said Jeff Huntas, airport manager for Medicine Hat Regional Airport.
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  • The City has lessened the immediate blow of increases for land developers in the third version of the controversial revision of the fees for licences and permits in Medicine Hat.
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Local Sports

  • All season the biggest question for the Medicine Hat Tigers has been where the secondary scoring would come from.
    With Emerson Etem and Hunter Shinkaruk making up for nearly half the team’s offence, it’s a question that will continue to be asked. But on Tuesday at The Arena, there were…
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  • More fights, more local content and title belts are on the card for the next mixed martial arts event in Medicine Hat. All the promoter wants now is a bigger crowd. Calgary-based Hard Knocks Fighting will bring its 20th major show to the Cypress Centre Friday, Feb.
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  • Objective compensation method needed
    And that paying Lee Iacoca compensation will not get you the next Lee Iacoca. More...
    By BUFF
  • Objective compensation method needed
    I'm not saying there aren't really good CEOs out there that do make major impacts, just that for every one like that there are probably 50 who are not much better than the average Joe out of the back office. More...
    By BUFF
  • Objective compensation method needed
    Yes, but if you normalize out external, chance events that actually drive the so-called recoveries, you would see that the CEOs often are not really responsible for the turnarounds. An article last year in the Harvard Business Review cites "A recent ... More...
    By BUFF
  • Objective compensation method needed
    While I agree that CEO's are overpaid in many institutions, to say that they have no impact on a company's financial results is naive. There are too many stories to count about CEO's moving into a faltering company and turning it around. There are al... More...
    By constructionguy
  • Ticked Off and Tickled Pink Feb. 7
    Ticked off the college is cutting all the cattails around the pond. I thought that was supposed to be a naturally preserved area. Other than that the rest of campus looks good. More...
    By shoklitz
  • Uproar leads to fee compromise
    Agreed. And now by the looks of things a re-inspection will cost $100. I've seen re-inspections called for because a tile is grouted in over a jetted tub access panel (this is commonly done in most areas) instead of siliconed. Our hard-headed inspect... More...
    By constructionguy
  • Cuts can solve tax hike: alderman
    Agreed, I still don't understand how they justify employing the same number of planning and building staff today as they did back in the boom. Eliminate a senior position in that department and a junior staffer or two and that equals probably at leas... More...
    By constructionguy
  • Objective compensation method needed
    "If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys." But they are (almost) all monkeys (just like sports coaches) and rarely do they make a meaasureable difference in financial results. Any publicly-traded corporation that compensates a CEO in multi-millions ... More...
    By BUFF
  • Property tax hikes pending
    doug@hat. Mine went up aprox. $50.00 as it seems that yours did. Mine is $299.43. There are 2 of us. No children. We keep our lights of as much as possible, turn the furnace down at night, etc. We have a newer, modest sized home. If we had children I... More...
    By hutch
  • Cuts can solve tax hike: alderman
    and losing 10 positions throughout 3 years is baby steps. maybe a total of 250k a year. pennies to 73 million payroll. More...
    By mstrachan

Commentary

  • The federal government hasn't said it plans to raise the eligibility age for Old Age Security to 67, but even speculation that it might has opponents of the idea already firing back — and offering some good arguments. Those against making Canadians wait an extra two years to start claiming…
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  • As Caterpillar hauls its billions in profits south of the border, the company's executives should make a detour and stop in Ottawa to drop off the money they owe Canadian taxpayers. Failing that, the Conservative government should be waiting for them at the border demanding the tax break and handout…
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  • I must admit that Danielle Smith is thinking progressively when she says that school boards need more money, the authority to hire more teachers and the flexibility to educate special needs students.
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  • Where is our Medicine Hat Advantage? With mild winter gas is low, so the electrical rate is raised to compensate revenue loss. Why is our electricity so high when it is produced by natural gas, which is low? Ticked Off To see we've been shafted again by the feds.
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  • But if there's one thing I've become an expert on since moving here, it's getting lost. It's easy for a newcomer to get twisted and turned around here, what with the coulees ruining any predictable grid-pattern and the unraveling, winding roads of suburbia.
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