A local landlord says she will work with tenants unable to pay their upcoming rent as a result of the COVID-19 crisis to find a flexible solution.
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Category Archives: Medicine Hat (Alberta)
Suncor delays wind project as part of major scale-back of capital spending
A major wind power project near Bow Island could be delayed up to two years, Suncor announced as it issued revised guidance to investors on Monday.
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Local tenants organizing rent strike
A group of local tenants are organizing a rent strike for April 1, with the aim of achieving a moratorium on evictions.
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Cielo announces bio-diesel refinery location in Cypress
A location of a proposed waste-to-diesel refinery in the Medicine Hat area has been announced by the company behind the project and a local investment group with the potential for a final deal to be signed this summer.
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WestJet cuts service between Hat and Calgary by 33 per cent
WestJet is reducing the number of flights it operates between Medicine Hat and Calgary from three to two a day, effective immediately.
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Residential, commercial utility bills on hold until June
All residential and small commercial utility bills in Medicine Hat are on hold until mid-June, city finance officials announced late Friday as they implemented a provincial order to defer bills to help ease financial aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic response.
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City seeks ways it can ease financial strain
City councillors will ask for options from administrators to help ease financial strain related to a societal pandemic response plan that led to a flatline of business activity and layoffs this week.
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Business as usual at the city’s power facilities
Managers at the city’s power plant report that in terms of the Alberta power supply system, the response to the coronavirus pandemic has been “pretty uneventful, really.”
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City halts utility disconnects with 90-day deferral plan
The City of Medicine Hat will halt all utility disconnects for 90 days – a measure on top of provincial orders to allow some bills to be deferred from for the same amount of time – the News learned on Thursday afternoon.
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Businesses brace for slow-down
The fear is real for small business owners and their employees about the economic effects of a call by all governments to stay home as the best measure to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
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