Medicine Hat’s Vital Signs

CORRECTIONS

Please note, on page 9 of Medicine Hat’s Vital Signs there is a decimal placement error.

In the “Oil and Gas Prices” paragraph it should read “During this period oil was at a high of $133.33/barrel in June 2008 and dropped to a low of $39.16 in February of 2009. Gas hit its high in July 2008 at $1.30 and a low of $ .739 in December 2008.”

We apologize for this error.

NOTE:

On page 11 of Medicine Hat’s Vital Signs, the “Fact or Fiction” states that the percentage increase in the number of cases of shoplifting of $5,000 or under was 860%. We were later informed by the Medicine Hat Police Service that while there was an increase in shoplifting cases from 2007 – 2008, the high percentage noted in the statistics is due to a change in reporting to Statistics Canada. The actual number of shoplifting cases under $5000 was 157 in 2007 and 193 in 2008.