Collin Gallant
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Journalist in Medicine Hat, Alta., covers city hall, utilities, energy, cannabis sectors, aspiring optimist.
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I thought this was the life of journalist, instead I’m explaining power rates.
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Former PC cabinet minister
@LukaszukAB
endorsed NDP candidate Cathy Hogg this afternoon and will doorknock with here this weekend to reach disgruntled conservatives, he told the
@MedicineHatNews
#medhat
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Since NOBODY in Alberta apparently realizes there’s big difference between orphan & abandoned wells:
—Orphaned is a well that has no legal owner because the company is insolvent.
—Abandoned is a well that’s been closed by a company.
It’s NOT an interchangeable term.
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A note to Hatters — the Medicine Hat News is in this for the long haul. The editorial dept and others began remote working today in the interest of reducing in-building staff. Your paper will continue to be delivered. There will be much more on this in Wednesday’ edition
#medhat
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City of
#medhat
has ended its relationship with AIMCo, the provincial govt’s’ public funds and pension manager, instead moving to private sector fund managers over the last year. Full report in Thurs’ edition of the
@MedicineHatNews
#ableg
#abpoli
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Just got off phone with Mayor Clugston, who says w/out provincewide mask mandate,
#medhat
may be largest city in Canada w/out one. He’ll talk w/ council members about holding Special council meeting to debate one. Full story in Wed’s
@MedicineHatNews
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Personally I’m resisting the temptation to shop online for the next little while... when the sun comes out local businesses are gonna need all the support the community can give.
#medhat
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It’s official!
— the
@MedicineHatNews
and its employees have a new contract that provides reasonable raises into 2025 after a two-year wage freeze through the pandemic.
— It’s an investment in local journalism in
#medhat
.
— Do your part: Read, subscribe, advertise.
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Since the Postmedia layoffs I’ve heard questions about the
@MedicineHatNews
.
A) we’re not postmedia & local business is improving;
B) we just signed a new contract with decent raises;
C) we do need and rely on community support to do what we do;
D) thanks
#medhat
& keep it up!
As large corporations make headlines showcasing an apparent decline in Canada's newspaper industry, Saskatchewan journalists say there's still hope for print publications.
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In case you’re wondering, solar power plants in Brooks, Suffield, Vauxhall and Taber are all producing power to the grid today... cloudy in SAlberta and following 18 inches of snow this week.
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It’s now 15 years after I was told newspapers were going out of business during the 2008 credit crisis, and 20 yrs since I was told something called Facebook would shut down papers, and 25 yrs since I was told the internet would destroy newspapers.
They may yet, but haven’t yet.
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There is no Monday edition today as the
@MedicineHatNews
alters its print scheduled but rest assured there are still dedicated, local journalists working for Hatters each and every day under difficult conditions.
#medhat
#supportlocal
#localnews
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The
@medicinehatnews
and Medicine Hat have come through 135 years of drought, flood, booms, busts, two world wars, the Great Depression, the Spanish Flu, H1N1, a massive train derailment, 5,300 cubic metres of water/second (twice!), and a slaughterhouse explosion. We can do this.
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There’s a lot of talk this week about the 1938 Special Pulitzer Prize Award, won by the
@edmontonjournal
... lesser known are the citations for 5 Alta dailies, including the
@MedicineHatNews
and 50 weeklies that took part in the campaign.
#medhat
#ableg
#cdnmedia
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In the
#medhat
News, 65 years ago this week, April 12, 1955...
@MedicineHatNews
#COVID19AB
#abpoli
#ABleg
#SEAlta
#Canpoli
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Curtis Noble looks like a tough guy in every file photo at the
@MedicineHatNews
, but he was really a pussycat.
He was also my neighbour & always available as head of the
@MH_Firefighters
union.
It’s a tragedy that his funeral was today. Died of pneumonia at 41.
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Well, I’m still going to follow health regs, keep distance, isolate as much as possible... not because I’m a peon, but because I want my mom, 78, to be able to rejoin her bowling league next fall.
And... I’m probably last in line for the vaccine.
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I interviewed him about Stampede Wrestling (as a student journalist), and awkwardly asked him about breaking into the news business. He gave me a contact at a daily and told me to mention him. Got my first paid gig.
He was a real gem.
Hello, Calgary! 😉 Let’s take a moment to bow down to the legendary Ed Whalen, who died 20 years ago today.
#globalnews
#stampedewrestling
#calgaryweather
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CRTC has rejected plan by Telus to add a charge for Alberta and B.C. customers who pay bills via credit cards...
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What would I, personally, like to see in
@medicinehatcity
? A grove of Evans cherry trees in a city park, urban reserve, blvd or new subdivision. Plant one for every COVID death in Alberta, about 150 currently, and watch them bloom each April.
#medhat
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BREAKING — The
@medicinehatcity
will announce this afternoon it will suspend all utility disconnection actions for 90 days. This is separate from provincial program for some customers to defer billed amounts for three months.
#medhat
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#medhat
police say Tamara Lich has been remanded in custody by a justice of the peace on Tuesday after they executed a warrant put out by Ottawa Police on Monday. She will be transported to Ottawa soon to answer to the charge of breaking her bail conditions.
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The MH News has a 2,000-word feature interview with incoming
#medhat
mayor
@lclarkformayor
slated for Saturday’s edition.
A peek: she’s 41, not 40, as previously printed in the
@MedicineHatNews
.
That plus her back story, positions on the budget crunch, jobs, net zero & more.
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Let me just say this: there are 50 Hatters employed at the
@MedicineHatNews
who work hard to deliver the best local paper they can.
#medhat
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The Saamis Tepee will be lit blue and yellow on March 4 to show support for Ukraine,
#medhat
city has announced.
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Brought to you by the people who bring you the
@MedicineHatNews
#medhat
#localnews
#supportlocalnews
#journalism
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The short story is that mayor Linnsie Clark says she’ll ask the court to reverse sanctions placed on her last week. The long story is that 47-pages of documents released by Clark today suggesting months-long fight between Clark, council and admin.
#medhat
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If I had a dollar for every time an article of mine is introduced as evidence at a utility hearing, zoning application or judicial review, I’d be rich.
Yet, people fail to see the value in, or pay, for
#localnews
and sometimes call me up to tell me the media is useless.
#medhat
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I’m informed new mayor
@lclarkformayor
was on CBC Newsworld this afternoon… and she made the paper in Lethbridge.
Medicine Hat incumbent mayor loses to newcomer. From virtual unknown to the mayor’s office in three months, Linnsie Clark stormed to a resounding victory in Monday’s election.
#yql
#Lethbridge
#medhat
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My first manager at the
#medhat
news ... sent two reporters (and a photog) to ‘07 Mem Cup when he could have big footed all of us... then put out a four-page wrap for the 10 days back in
#medhat
... great guy, good people... no bigger booster of amateur sports in this city.
After 16 years I’ve worked my last day at the Medicine Hat News.
One line in my column was edited out for publication. It read: “My departure from the News is not my choice.”
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The
@MedicineHatNews
consecutive attendance streak at
#medhat
town or city council continues, currently at 133 years four months.
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After 25 years as a reporter, I’m still amazed and honoured that people choose to share their stories with me.
Hurtling toward Medicine Hat on a freight train with no brakes, Shayne Leuck didn’t have time to be scared. He simply accepted he was going to die.
The News speaks with Leuck on the 40th anniversary of the crash that stands as one of the largest accidents in city history.
#medhat
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So if it’s an anonymous, potentially defamatory letter that the province didn’t want to handle, why mention it?
And not just mention it, but put it front and centre?
A theory: politicians usually get away saying “I’m hearing a lot of concern about X, Y, Z” w/o having to prove it.
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Okay, Hatters, here’s how it works:
— provincial grid alerts do not extend to the local area or describe local conditions, but;
— city is self sufficient and feeds the provincial grid with excess supply;
— the lower local use, the greater capacity there is for export;
#medhat
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Alberta likely on the cusp of firm load shed, if not happening already.
What does that mean?
They will have first gone to large customers asking for demand reductions.
Next step would be rotating outages for 30-60 mins across different substations (basically communities).
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Here’s a story getting very little play in Alberta…
Maine voters will decide on nationalizing an Enmax-owned utility company.
Meanwhile, across the continent in Maine, citizens are fighting to create a publicly owned, not-for-profit state electrical utility.
#ableg
#abpoli
#ElectricityPrices
#OurPowerMaine
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A $3M upgrade of Athletic Park in
#medhat
will go ahead with Newly announce federal govt grants, council announces.
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Three important stories for deep southern Alberta that only being local newspapers
@MedicineHatNews
and
@Leth_Herald
are covering in depth.
#supportlocal
#savelocalnews
#LocalNews
#medhat
#CdnAg
#yql
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We also need readers more than ever to follow us on social media and get in contact with reporters about both the pandemic response and other vital issues in our city.
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One out of every 90 Hatters is currently positively identified as having Covid 19, according to today’s numbers.
#medhat
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Allusions of our demise are greatly exaggerated by a competing media source.
@MedicineHatNews
is redeveloping a building we own in central
#medhat
b/c we have fewer employees than in 1982 when the Dunmore Rd office was built (it is sold).
Also, we’re hiring, not laying off.
On Friday evening's broadcast, CHAT News reported the Medicine Hat News is moving and that we have laid off staff.
The News is moving at a later date, but we are not laying off any staff.
Here is the News' response to the erroneous report.
#medhat
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RCMP states they have arrested 11 members of a sub-group at Coutts that had 13 firearms, body armour, large cache of ammunition. Searched three trailers with warrants in early morning hours Monday. That’s per media release.
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Today's edition of small town police reports features Brooks, Alta. (which, yes, is a city).
#medhat
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A guy in front of
#medhat
city hall asked me if I was the mayor while I was walking in for tonight’s meeting
For the record the mayor is on the left, I’m on the right.
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It’s a beeeee-autiful day in
#medhat
. Once again the hot chocolate is free in Central Park thanks to the SE Hill Neighbourhood Assoc. until 4p.m.
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Just a reminder that if the COVID pandemic was the Second World War, Pearl Harbour would be a year away.
If it was the Great Depression, it would be Christmas 1930.
Let’s get it together, stop losing our minds, and get through this.
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@DuaneBratt
#medhat
paid $53M cash, borrowed $10M (paid by ticket fees), and got some preliminary study money ($1.3M, if I recall) from the province, when in built the 6,300 seat event centre in 2014-15.
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Cancarb in
#medhat
will spend $40M over next 18 months to add 20% capacity and warehouse facilities, company announced Wednesday aft.
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@shmitzysays
Did not one person at a major media outlet think to go to the registry office to check out Forent Energy? I do it all the time to run down leads and I’m at the supposedly lightweight
@medhat
News?
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The UFCW has applied for a stop work order to prevent Cargill plant in High River, Alta. from reopening on Monday... the release is below.
#CdnAg
#ableg
#altaAg
#cdnBeef
Our union is taking action to make sure Cargill and the provincial government put our members'
#safetyfirst
We will fight and do everything in our power to ensure that no one else at the Cargill plant is placed in harm's way.
#ufcw
#canlab
#ableg
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I got to know Bob Ridley at the rinks before I heard him call a game. I covered the team for my first five years in
#medhat
& couldn't really ever listen to broadcasts.
By the time I did, I already knew he was a class act & a great guy in the game.
Congrats,
@BobRidley_CHAT
.
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Fun with math: if 80 people are in hospital each day with covid, and a day in hospital costs $5,000, the cost over a year is $150 million at that hospitalization rate.
Shouldn’t it be a budget priority to aim for zero hospitalizations?
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“Sea gulls should really be called everywhere gulls.”
— Thought for the day from my 8-year-old.
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A little glimpse at Ian Tyson in
#medhat
from another time: Tyson, Ronnie Hawkins w/ Westlander owners Fred Hall and Ron Craven as photographed by MH News photog Frank Webber in 1977 (taken from Webber’s book “Mirror on Medicine Hat”)
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The drilling rig that blocked a city street in
#medhat
for the last month is packing up, ending one of what must be the weirdest jobs for roughnecks in history.
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Isn’t this the exact opposite reason cited as why an Alberta Pension Plan would be better than CPP?
Alberta’s aging population will only put more pressure on provincial finances in the coming years
Learn more:
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Let’s keep it this way!
#medhat
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Jason Kenney says he will host high-profile US senator Joe Manchin this spring and plans to testify before US Senate’s energy committee re: North American supply security… was speaking to business crowd in
#medhat
on Thursday.
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If the 95-year-old Queen of England won’t pull some strings to break health restrictions while burying her husband of 73 years, then surely YOU can hack wearing a mask, avoiding crowds and indoor company until May.
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Annual Reminder:
DON’T touch fawns.
The mother has NOT abandoned them.
They wander away from their young to lead predators away from fawns.
DON’T touch fawns.
#medhat
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Which church? DM me if you want? I'd be very interested to look into the issue.
@michaelaglasgo
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The
@MedicineHatNews
consecutive appearance streak at
#medhat
city council meetings continues at 135 years one month.
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One of the real joys of hauling mountains of material in short order during the
#medhat
News move this month is going through a treasure trove of truly excellent black and white photos. Stay tuned.
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Ka-boom…
#medhat
is an inch away from having the wettest month of May in 25 years.
(One caveat is that we got 3-inches in one day).
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Well, lawn, I’ve done my best to give you a good start in life, but now you’re on your own.
#medhat
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If I am a small business owner, my biggest worry would be adding costs by reopening (staff, especially) without knowing what the market conditions are. If YOU are a small business owner, get in touch. I’m writing a story about the re-open plan for the
@MedicineHatNews
#medhat
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Come work at the
@MedicineHatNews
, and come quick! Union benefits, and we punch above our weight!
#cdnmedia
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This is fun.
#medhat
I made a website where you can put bernie in places using google maps street view. Enjoy!
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Some inspiration from my mother, 78, who is playing bridge on zoom tonight... her friend, who has 18 decks of cards, dealt hands into colour-coded baggies and delivered them. They take turns running a dummy board.
Try and tell me we can’t figure out how to have some fun at Xmas.
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Deep thought here, but if you think about it, it’s surprising there are bananas in grocery stores at all, never mind heaps of them every day in every grocery store in every town all across North America.
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MacInnes was the first autograph I got as a kid. He was on crutches coming off a plane after a playoff loss, my dad yelled from the crowd “I’m from New Waterford (N.S.), sign for my kid. So he hobbled over. 18 yrs later MacInnes was the first NHLer I interviewed as a reporter.
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Great to see the
@MHSantaClaus
fund parade tonight. Some super excited kiddos here on the SE Hill in
#medhat
.
Terrific job everyone! Great cause!
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Confirmed --
#medhat
city council will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, 5 p.m., to debate local mask bylaw, Mayor Clugston tells the
@MedicineHatNews
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City of
#medhat
will sell the Monarch Theatre to a society operated by the Rotary Clubs in the city, council approved on Modnay. Movies, shows, other performances planned, says Rotary officials, with profits plied back into the community initiatives.
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In the
#medhat
News, 65 years ago this week, April 12, 1955...
@MedicineHatNews
#COVID19AB
#abpoli
#ABleg
#SEAlta
#Canpoli
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Dear rest of Canada,
Can we stop referring to electricity as “hydro”? And especially when it comes to discussing carbon emissions. If it really was “hydro” we wouldn’t wouldn’t be talking about it. Also, a “cottage” is a “cabin” in Western Canada.
Thanks.
#canpoli
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The
@MedicineHatNews
is hiring, again, and, again, we punch above our weight and offer union benefits.
#cdnmedia
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#medhat
city councillor Ramona Robins tells council (via online link) that she is recovering from Covid. She asks for Hatters to be careful and compassionate, and says vaccination has kept her symptoms mild.
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Every house in
#medhat
will receive a
@MedicineHatNews
edition today. Consider the value of in-depth local journalism.
#newspapersmatter
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Okay,
#medhat
, if my 2-yr-old can get a 49-piece puzzle done by 8 a.m. surely you can get something accomplished today. Let’s get up and at ‘em.
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Found this old pic of the Monarch marquee in the early/mid 1980s. Copyright the
@MedicineHatNews
#medhat
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So,
#medhat
, whaddya think of this artist's conception about potential changes for downtown, River Road, Finlay Bridge and Riverside Veterans Park over the next 10-15 years? (That's city hall in the top right).
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New cases are not trending down — there were 26 new cases on Wednesday, offset by 52 recoveries (which could be resolving more quickly, due to vaccinations, according to the province).
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There are reporters producing stories on a weekly, or daily, rate that in any other year(s) would be national award level.
Honestly, I’m reading once a month or twice-a-year scoops everyday from some people.
It’s astonishing how the media has stood up during Covid.
#cdnmedia
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