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Category Archives: Medicine Hat (Alberta)
City looks to boost investment
A new investment policy could see the city invest directly in private businesses with an eye to earn returns, spur tax assessment growth, boost utility sales or further economic diversification, a city committee heard on Tuesday.
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All options for power division must be looked at, councillors say
Council members are waiting to see what’s all involved as administrators evaluate a potential deal to sell the city’s power generating company.
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Sell off or partner up: City’s future in power
Offers to sell its power generation business or partner with private industry are now being considered by the City of Medicine Hat, officials said Tuesday.
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Local real estate gains better than alternative
Medicine Hat’s real estate market managed to make gains in 2020, but largely missed an unexpected updraft in activity that lifted Canadian home values beyond all expectation in a pandemic year, said the new president of the Medicine Hat Real Estate Board.
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$6M shifted to help with relief projects
The city has re-allocated more than $6 million in previously budgeted capital spending to accommodate a host of new projects outlined last fall to take advantage of federal grant changes to spur the economy over the next year.
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BluEarth acquiring majority stakes in two SE Alberta solar plays
A renewable energy company is expanding its footprint in the region.
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HatSmart program adds rebates for high-efficiency gas furnaces, home audits
An energy conservation grant program in Medicine Hat will add rebates in 2021 for new high-efficiency gas furnaces and pay partial costs of home audits, the city’s utility department announced on Thursday.
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Business owners object to day shelter locale
Downtown business owners plan to formally object to a daytime homeless shelter that is now operating near the downtown intersection of Third Street and Sixth Avenue.
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Provincial flood maps don’t include the expected effects of Medicine Hat’s berms
Hatters can see the potential effects of up to a 1-in-1,000-year flood in a new provincial flood mapping study, but harder to discern are the effects of berms built by the city since major flooding in 2013.
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