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Council is moving forward with the more than $130 million first phase of the Saamis Solar project.
(Re SK Border)…there aren't just a dozen crossing points - there are hundreds of potential gates, from Highway 1 down to unnamed gravel lanes. Securing it wouldn't mean building a dozen booths. It would mean deciding which hundreds of backroads to bulldoze closed, which farms to cut in half with a fence, and how to patrol a 1,200 km strip of open field.
The APP (Alberta Prosperity Party) and Stay Free Alberta are long on promises - lots more money, no personal income tax, prosperity all over the place - we’ll be winning and everyone will want to be us. However, they are short on explaining how it can be achieved. When pressed on practical matters, the stock answer seems to be “That will all have to be negotiated”.
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The province is linking this winter’s die off of wild birds along the South Saskatchewan River in Medicine Hat to the largest rate of mortality yet seen due to avian influenza.
Council is moving forward with the more than $130 million first phase of the Saamis Solar project.
A decision of one of the largest single expenditures will be up for debate at Medicine Hat city council on Monday with a decision on the $131 million first phase of Saamis Solar on the agenda.
The complaint stated the MHPS chief utilized both a public and “covert” social media account to meet women. Darr’s complaint also states Worden would ask for oral sex in exchange for gym training time, utilize a “glory hole” and other sexual activities.
No answers for borders, no answers on 51st state (Yeah!! let’s snag all the perks Puerto Rico gets! Whilst also becoming the Minnesota! Right?! I’m developing a broad conspiracy theory that argues that entire state is a Canadian Sleeper Cell. We’ve all heard them talk. They are obviously trying to hide their Canadian accent!)
The century-old Riverside School, built in 1916 as an Edwardian Classical-style landmark occupying a full block at 201 Second Street NW, has been coming down after years of sitting empty and deteriorating
The Independent Alberta movement is saying Alberta should be its own country. They say we’d be richer, freer, and call all the shots. It sounds good, almost too good to be true.
In five separate rulings on December 2, 2025, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) found the city violated access-to-information law. The city had claimed certain requests were "complete." The OIPC found no evidence any response was ever sent. One was unilaterally deemed "informal"; others were met with excuses like "corrupted files."
The city is making a big plan for the Medicine Hat Airport for the next 20 years, and they need to hear from you. An online survey is open now, but it closes on Sunday, February 8, 2026.
Dutch’s story is a sad one. His original owner went into long-term care, and this goodest boi has been through a few transitions since. What he needs now is stability: a "foster-to-adopt"or a straight-up forever adoption.
If you have never experienced a concert inside one of Medalta’s Beehive Kilns, your mind will be blown by this magical space! With only 70 seats per show, this intimate setting is simply like nothing else, especially for the $30 ticket price per person.
The Kookums operate on a simple principle: feed the hungry. In stark contrast, the cruel and dehumanizing rhetoric that sometimes surfaces online—treating hungry people like unwelcome vermin—reveals more about the speaker's lack of empathy than it does about the complex reality of homelessness.
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Last week in Alberta - an editorial cartoon about the Alberta Prosperity Project.
This opinion piece is written by McBride’s Bakery. While The Owl does not contribute to this column, The Owl did adjust the formatting. This was originally published on social media.
The first time McGrogan came to the Bakery he was nice enough. All man-to-man, you know? The sanctions had just been imposed, and I had responded with targeted criticism of him, which led him to visit the Bakery.
There are forty-five people running for office right now, without wards, so everyone is running everywhere. In this sense, the abundance of signs isn’t so surprising, although it is getting tiresome now that we’re a month into it.
7 pages of standard conservative priorities: population growth, business development strategies, more police and surveillance cameras, and mainly low-cost suggestions for dealing with street-level disorder.
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The province is linking this winter’s die off of wild birds along the South Saskatchewan River in Medicine Hat to the largest rate of mortality yet seen due to avian influenza.