Collin Gallant

@@CollinGallant Major manufacturers based in Medicine Hat, and others who do business in the United States, are closely watching potential trade action between Canada and its North American neighbour. Tariffs were set to take effect today, though two companies with local facilities and major operations in the U.S., said their logistics networks could absorb some

@@CollinGallant Stampede officials aren’t happy with a further delay in funding talks with the city on grandstand expansion, but see a now set timetable and conditions as a step forward on the issue first proposed four years ago. “It’s not the outcome we were hoping for, but we’re hopeful that there’s a proposal and scenario

@@CollinGallant No one was more surprised than Skyla Pardy when nurses at Medicine Hat Regional Hospital told her she was about to give birth. But, her “miracle baby” arrived 10 hours after the 22-year-old woman went to the emergency room on Valentine’s Day with what she thought was bad cramps. She had actually been in

@@CollinGallant Medicine Hat’s former Member of Parliament is part of a group hoping to open direct talks with U.S President Donald Trump about Alberta’s future, and is also now calling for a provincial independence referendum this year. LaVar Payne is listed among the attendees of a press conference set for today in Calgary to launch

@@CollinGallant Eastern Alberta is poised to take advantage of geopolitical trends – a new drive for food security and defence spending, as well as changing trade and logistics networks – if it acts together, delegates to a Local to Global trade forum in Medicine Hat were told Thursday. The conference at the Medicine Hat Lodge

@@CollinGallant With Medicine Hat’s homebuilding sector seemingly stuck in the midst of a housing crisis, City Hall may begin promoting lots and building opportunities to outside construction firms. That is one potential avenue explored in a proposed draft of a new strategy for the office and land development company, which was outlined at a council

@@CollinGallant A major stumbling block in budget discussions last fall could soon be put back on the agenda, though a city councillor proposing staffers seek an alternative says a regional plan still may be possible. A food waste composting facility and city-wide program to collect and keep organic material from entering the land fill was

@CollinGallant Residents spoke against and for the idea of creating a municipally controlled corporation to manage the City of Medicine Hat’s power plant at a public hearing on Tuesday, citing concerns over accountability of a new corporate structure, or arguing that more efficient operation of the city’s legacy public industry is needed. After the 2.5-hour

@CollinGallant A city-controlled corporation would have the authority to make operational and substantial business decisions at the power plant through a board of directors, but could not sell itself or make “material changes” without council approval, Medicine Hat officials said Tuesday, But, what constitutes a material change is up for discussion, according to the city’s

@@CollinGallant Hundreds of Hatters packed council chambers Monday evening to talk transportation, namely the city’s proposed transportation master plan, and mainly to complain that it will narrow roads. Four submissions and four speakers in favour of the changes were matched in a more than three-hour non-statutory hearing – voluntarily called by council – compared to