ARCH Worked -The Alberta Government Let It Die Anyway
The ARCH program in Medicine Hat was a pilot project that tested whether giving people with serious mental health and addiction issues their own home with the right support would work…It proved that housing with support works for people who are the hardest to help.
ARCH Participants Given Just 18 Days' Notice, Forced to Move as Program Shuts Down
The Government of Alberta has not publicly explained its decision not to renew funding for a program that was serving some of the province's most vulnerable residents. And with the clock ticking, the people who called ARCH home are running out of time.
Owl News Launches Community Water Safety Initiative
The Owl News Water Safety Initiative (working title - subject to change) will seek to install self-serve lifejacket loaner stations at certain spots along the South Saskatchewan River. The stations will be simple, weatherproof boxes filled with free lifejackets.
The White Horse Rider Tepee Project
Elder Charlie spoke of the traditional materials to use to build tepees - while Mercer's project uses canvas, they once used buffalo hide which is very heavy - this limited the size of the tepees… and told us the tepee rings we see on the plains were from campsites, the stones were used to hold down the tepees instead of pegs.
Medicine Hat Didn't Dodge. Our MLA Did.
Holly Turnbull asked her local MLA, Justin Wright, to step in and push for faster action (on the Forever Canada petition deemed successful Dec 2025). His reply? "I do not sit on the committee."
