Exclusive! Relocation Expenses Revealed - Why did it Take SO Long?
After reading the 96 pages, The Owl was left wondering - what was the big deal? Why did the city fight so hard about this that it actually took an order from the OIPC to get the deets?
Updated (Again) - Exclusive! City in Violation of Five OIPC Orders
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."
City Committee Charts Course for Complaints & Confidentiality
Medicine Hat is expanding confidentiality training to all employees and creating a new whistleblower policy to modernize transparency and protect those who report problems.
MEDICINE HAT’S TRANSPARENCY TANTRUM: City Spends Public Money Fighting a Ghost—And Keeps Losing
Instead of addressing the requests, the City ran to the OIPC to have them thrown out as “frivolous, vexatious, or made in bad faith.” The Commissioner’s adjudicator, in a masterclass of patient repetition, shot down each attempt.
