The Seconder Rule: What Councillors Say vs. What the Law Requires
Two Medicine Hat city councillors have said that councillors should get a seconder for a motion before bringing it to a council meeting. But the Municipal Government Act and the official handbook for councillors say something different. This difference matters because Medicine Hat residents already have a low tolerance for decisions made behind closed doors.
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Under this law, chalk is legally the same as spray paint. The bylaw also doesn't mention sidewalks. But spray paint on a sidewalk is clearly graffiti. So if chalking a building is graffiti, then chalking a sidewalk is also graffiti. Every hopscotch grid. Every "you are loved" message. All of it. Illegal.
"Gittin' 'er Done": As City Hall Talks, Kookums Feed the Hungry
The Kookums operate on a simple principle: feed the hungry. In stark contrast, the cruel and dehumanizing rhetoric that sometimes surfaces online—treating hungry people like unwelcome vermin—reveals more about the speaker's lack of empathy than it does about the complex reality of homelessness.
