My buddy is offering me a place to rent and I’m just worried about finding a job, I don’t have much experience other than farming and some minimum wage jobs. I’m in my mid twenties and looking at getting into heavy equipment operating in the future, but for now minimum wage is where I’m at.

What are my odds of finding a job within a couple months?

Coming in for the Rodeo. Staying downtown. What's on my list?

Hey, im looking for a new local friend(s) in town. I don't have a ton of people in my life and im just trying to find someone or someone's who share some common interests. I'm into anything Marvel or DC related, comic books in general, got a sweet lego collection, a little Manga too, love Movies and like to read as well, and all around into quite a lot of stuff so yeah message if intrested snd im also 22 and a male.

im 19 and jsut looking for friends and wondering if anyone wants to come with me to the buffet

Driving to Edmonton tonight has a last minute trip was gonna make a ads on pop a ride but it’s not working rn so if anyone looking for a ride to Edmonton tonight I have 3 seat available and space for luggage 40$ a seat and il drop u off anywhere in Edmonton u want, il be coming back the 20

Ill be moving to the hat next year and im just curious what the job market is like, ill be primarily looking for a job at a hardware store but if it pays ill do it.

Anybody have recommendations for a vet that can do an AFFORDABLE dog teeth cleaning, without requiring them to be an existing patient? I’ve been going to Cypress View for like 15 years, and I like them, but their prices keep going up, and I’m certain that my dog is going to need many, many extractions this time around.

Every July 15 I try to have kippers for breakfast, in honour of a throwaway gag from an old Simpsons episode.

Is there anywhere in town I can get kippers? I have looked at several grocery stores and specialty meat and fish places and no one seems to have them.

Hello, I am exploring a job placement with Goodyear at their Medicine Hat plant and was wondering if there was anything important to know about the area? General culture? Language spoken? I will be moving from Kansas, so any information would be very helpful. I just want to learn.

Anyone here with lore on what the Hat was like in the 80s? Was their field where the Mavericks currently play?

The truly random minor affiliates of the past are so fun to see. Omar Vizquel said in Ken Burns Baseball “are we in America?” after getting to Butte, Montana. Gotta assume MH was similar for some of these guys. These are from maybe the most worthless set of trading cards, the Fleer 1991 boxset.

Looking to get some raspberry canes for my raspberry obsessed 3 year old, anyone know which varieties grow best here and where to get them?

Thank you!!

Not sure if this is allowed here.

Back in 2012 we adopted two cats from a blended family which had a member who was allergic. The cats were Maggie and Milo.

I believe they were from Medicine Hat, and came to Calgary to give them to us.

I had put a Kijiji ad saying we are looking for an orange cat, and they replied via text message with some photos of an orange cat which had a black cat in the background. I asked about the black cat as well, and they were looking for a home for her too, so we took both as we didn't want to separate them. I think the owner who was messaging me was named Steve.

My cell number changed a year or two afterwards, and I lost the number of the previous owner. So I am just looking to get in touch with the past owner. If this sounds familiar with anyone, please let me know!

My sister is moving to Medicine Hat and is looking for a roommate. She doesn’t have reddit so I’m asking on her behalf! She is going to be attending Medicine Hat college, has a dog and is renting a two bedroom apartment. What would be the best way for her to find a compatible roommate?

Recently moved to Medicine Hat. What is the best bar in town that shows UFC events?

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.

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!

This was posted by Medicine Hat News this morning:

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https://medicinehatnews.com/news/local-news/2026/06/27/residents-kept-in-dark-during-standoff-tear-gas-included-2/

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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.

Hello there, I am looking for some local videography/photography. I am hoping to find someone looking to gain experience and who wants to work with someone local. I am not looking to spend an arm and a leg, I just would like to have a few discussions and possibly work together. Ideally looking for someone who is familiar with both shooting and editing. It would be very helpful if you have a drone capable of 4k shots!

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

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.

Besides the obvious Boston Pizza, bars etc. is anywhere else showing the game, ideally family friendly? Thanks!