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."
"Gittin' 'er Done": As City Hall Talks, Kookums Feed the Hungry
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.
When Will Medicine Hat Adopt a Transparent Media Policy?
This rejection of media protocol coincides with actions that perpetuate media favouritism. During the Dec 8 2025 Public Services Committee meeting, Councillor Dan Reynish—a former anchor for the now-defunct (in Medicine Hat) CHAT TV news—actively steered city staffers…
