Have a few growlers lying around and since Hells Basement is closed which is where I usually filled them, what other places and deals are there in the Hat. Some website info is outdated (2022) so seeing what the best price or place is for some summer refiils
Is there a lot of French speakers here or not really?
It was on this day in 1951 that the Medicine Hat Historical Museum opened to the public in a log cabin in Riverside Park.
Through relocation and expansion at the corners of Highways 1 and 3, then again to anchor the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre downtown, the Museum has an unbroken history of service to the community since that day.
After dark was a lot of fun. As much as I love the rambunctious little tripping hazards zooming around in the park it's nice to have a break, plus the entertainment was class as always.
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ok so yeah, it’s early, and no, i haven’t slept but i’m just like, so idk if yall remember my accounts and my depressed emo girl posting but like i tried to go to rehab because i’m tired of my life sucking and i don’t wanna spend the rest of my life as an addict, where i just keep losing people i care about. so like, i tried to go to rehab here.
you’d think it’d go “oh you’re addicted to like, hard drugs and you’re going through hella shit come do our 28 day treatment program” but no. they told me they can’t help me because i have mental health issues, because i have eating disorders, because i’ve experienced delusions in the past.
so like, what the fuck? we have a whole ass rehab facility in town that doesn’t help people who have concurrent mental health issues? people for real have to go three hours to claresholm? yeah apparently we do. this is what mental healthcare looks like here? this is what the support for people suffering from addiction is? just 28 day treatment for people who don’t have major mental health issues or 7 day detox for people coming down?
no wonder things are so bad. people have to decide to change but when to do decide to change there’s no help in this city, you’re just pointed to some town three hours away with at least like a three month wait time, and like, i didn’t even think i had it that bad, like, i’m not homeless, i’m like the only person in my friend group who both rents a place alone and has a car, shit i’m like the only person i’ve met under 30 who has that.
yet i still have too severe of mental health issues for them to even attempt treatment until i complete the claresholm program, just crazy man, tax dollars pay for this and this is what we get? this is the solutions were given to our problems? it’s just crazy to me man, this is the mental healthcare we get for what we do for our city and our province, for what we pay to live here.
i don’t know, i don’t know what i’m talking about anymore. it’s just fucked up and i need to yell into some sort of void or else i’m going to lose my mind trying to act like everything’s ok here right now, trying to act like it’s something i can overcome without any real help, and i didn’t even mention the really hard to live with mental health stuff, like i just mentioned that i hear noises that aren’t there sometimes and i’ve had an eating disorder since i was in elementary school. this is what’s severe enough for them to tell me to elsewhere and wait for help then like go to some small town three hours away for significant help.
moral of the story; don’t hold your pain inside, don’t keep it in until it becomes too much, also maybe don’t live in medicine hat if you have trauma or any mental illness that you can’t overcome on your own.
hi guys. im posting here bc idk where else to go but i really really would love someone to talk to, not a service or anything bc ive tried those before and always had terrible experiences but just someone who cares. does anyone know if there are groups or something just for talking and meeting ppl where u dont have to pay much? i know u guys will judge me for asking on here but i genuinely dont know many ppl here at all
thank u all sm
We are looking to relocate from Halifax, NS where I am a perioperative nurse (OR nurse) in a level 2 hospital.
Just wondering what it's like in Medicine Hat? What surgical services/specialities does the hospital offer? Are there any private clinics? Do you work in pre-op or PACU, or just in the OR? What is call like? Any other big pros/cons?
Thanks in advance!
Does anyone know what ride share company the driver that SA’d the young woman works for? I wasn’t aware we had such a company here?
This was posted by Medicine Hat News this morning:
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Residents kept in dark during standoff, tear gas included
For about seven hours Wednesday, Medicine Hat police surrounded an apartment building in the 1900 block of Upland Drive, blocking roads at both ends, deploying a tactical team and an armoured vehicle and, according to residents, ultimately deploying tear gas.
What police neglected to do, the residents say, was inform anyone in the area as to what was happening — neither those who live on the street, nor the tenants locked inside their units.
The News spoke with residents during and after Wednesday’s standoff, which started and ended with separate arrests. On Friday, a pair of residents spoke of their experiences — one stuck inside the building and one locked out of it.
Lacey Holowaty, 20, was in her unit when it began. She heard a police siren around 3 p.m. but thought little of it, and it was only later in the day that a roommate mentioned there were police cars outside and had been for hours. When she finally looked, she saw a full tactical unit set up near the building.
She and two others stood near a window, watching while keeping the screen closed and staying off the balcony. At one point, she says she watched officers set up something large that resembled a gun near the wall of the building, before deploying it. Shortly afterward, she noticed officers pulling on gas masks.
“I felt in my throat it was like a tingle and a tickle. It was something I’ve never felt before,” she said, describing how the sensation turned into a burn and set them coughing. “I was like, they’re gassing them, they’re gassing them.”
She says no one warned them, and no one ever knocked on her door. She says the trio retreated deeper into the unit, toward a bedroom that faced away from the scene, where the air was clear, but near the window the burning returned. It eased after a few minutes, she said, though the experience left her shaken.
“We were in our apartment,” she said. “We were barely even bystanders.”
Another resident on the same floor reported gas entering their apartment as well, an account shared online consistent with Holowaty’s experience.
Locked out
Owen, who lives on the floor directly above the unit at the centre of the standoff, asked that his last name not be published. He arrived home from work around 5 p.m. to find a mobile command unit pulling onto his street and both ends of the block sealed with tape. When an officer told him to turn around, he explained he lived in the building but he was told no one was allowed in and no one was allowed out.
His girlfriend was still inside and had no idea what was going on, so he called to tell her himself. When she opened the balcony door to step outside, an officer below yelled at her to get back in and close the door. Beyond that, she had received no prior information at all.
Owen remained across the street with a crowd that included children who had gathered to watch. He says they could feel effects of the gas even at that distance.
“We started coughing for, like, maybe a couple minutes,” he said, describing a chemical smell and a sharp reaction in his nose and throat, like something strong catching in the back of it.
No one outside had been warned beforehand, he said.
Holowaty had noticed the same thing from her window, saying she saw kids pulling shirts up over their noses.
Hours with no word
Holowaty says police never attempted to reach out to residents during or after the incident, and that she only realized it had ended when she looked outside and saw the police presence had left. Owen described the same experience of no one going door to door, before, during, or after.
Both Holowaty and Owen said the only information they managed to gather was pieced together from a negotiator’s voice carrying over a loudspeaker. Through it, they gradually understood that there was a man alone in the apartment in crisis, that he had injured himself and was bleeding and that the negotiator was urging him to stop and to accept medical help. Police later confirmed the man’s injuries were self inflicted.
That man was the second of two people taken into custody on Wednesday. According to a police statement released Thursday afternoon, officers were first called to a physical altercation inside the unit, where they safely removed a woman and arrested one man at the scene without incident. A second man then barricaded himself inside and was believed to be armed.
A long standoff, in full view.
According to witnesses, not even the tear gas brought the man out. Owen told the News the man stayed at the window, coughing and clearly affected, but refused to surrender as the standoff dragged on.
Owen watched much of what followed from across the street and recorded parts of it. He described a negotiation that stretched on for hours. At one point, he said, the negotiator told the man they would send in a phone so they could keep talking, and family members tried to contact him as well.
When negotiation stalled, the response escalated. Owen described a flash and a bang, followed by a window broken with a metal rod, further followed by the tear gas.
Holowaty described seeing a flash from an unknown police weapon before gas began to spread. Owen also described witnessing a police drone hovering near the window. Officers eventually moved in and brought the man out to a waiting ambulance at about 9:46 p.m. having obtained court authorization before entering, the MHPS told the News on Thursday.
Holowaty and Owen both expressed concern that police seemed to treat the scene as dangerous enough to lock down the block and confine residents, yet safe enough to let a crowd of civilians watch from across the street. During conversations Thursday, an MHPS spokesperson told the News no public statements were made during the ordeal because there was no threat to the public.
Owen says residents on scene didn’t know what to believe.
“(Police) knew the danger wasn’t catastrophic,” he said. “Because they also allowed everyone to pretty much stand across the street and watch.”
But, he asked, if they weren’t in danger, why was no one told anything?
Police mum on actions
The first public statement from police came roughly 25 hours after the standoff began, mentioning only the incident itself and detailing the arrests and charges laid.
Word of tear-gas deployment surfaced
Friday on social media before the News spoke to residents and watched videos taken by bystanders. When pressed for response to the deployment of tear gas or any other tactical tools, or those uninvolved residents claiming to be affected, Insp. Jason Graham of the
Medicine Hat Police Service refused comment, saying the information released Thursday is all that will be said about the incident.
“How can we trust that they’re actually taking care of these things,” Holowaty said. “If we don’t get a word of warning or word of what’s going on?”
The man arrested at the scene, 41-year-old Nathan Canfield of Medicine Hat, was charged with assault with a weapon, uttering threats and four counts of breach of probation. He was remanded into custody and is scheduled to appear in Provincial Court on Monday.
The second man, 43 years old, faces charges that include resisting a peace officer, three counts of breaching a conditional supervision order, and 41 Criminal Code charges related to seven outstanding warrants. Police have not released his name.
I've noticed over the past year that fewer and fewer people say thank you. Slow down to let someone in when driving - almost never a wave. Hold door for someone - less than half say thanks. Not even a nod. Stop to let someone cross, let someone go in front of you in line , I could go on. And it's all generations. I don't do these things for the thanks but it's really sad :(
Why are we losing this social courtesy?
The Medicine Hat Police Service has charged 54-year-old James Heath of Medicine Hat with two counts of indecent acts following an investigation into incidents reported in a residential neighbourhood.
Police received a complaint in early June regarding a male allegedly committing an indecent act while visible from outside his residence on two separate mornings in May and June.
An investigation was completed, including a review of video evidence, and the matter was forwarded to the Major Crimes Unit.
On June 24, 2026, Heath was arrested without incident and charged with two counts of indecent acts. He was released on conditions following a bail hearing and is scheduled to appear in Medicine Hat court on July 15, 2026.
Not much info besides Owl Media, which is of course, not news. But reading something this was recorded and sent to the police. Ok, that I get. But some reports are then the videos were published online to?
Some info says he may of been outside as well.. But if he wasnt, and was in his own home. How hard did this person look to see this. Was it a casual stroll and he was in his bedroom, or was he in his living room window? Was it once and you just couldnt just keep walking. Was it you had to really climb that fence to see it. I could make it out if I really stretched my neck and climbed on this box.
Besides the obvious Boston Pizza, bars etc. is anywhere else showing the game, ideally family friendly? Thanks!
Does anyone stream these stations using Amazon Alexa? Has anyone noticed the last few weeks or more than when you play them, they always repeat, or skip or both when you start them? Ive done all the troubleshooting I can do, and its seems to be only them. Since they are the same broadcaster, wondering if anyone else has this issue.
Not a major thing, but as annoying as hell when you listen to some news and it literally skips it, or reversees it