Eighty per cent

December 2, 2025

By Bill Kilpatrick Speaking with a local business owner last week about intimate partner violence, the owner stated something that everyone needs to hear. The ...

Polanada

By Bill Kilpatrick Many people don’t fully understand the significance of Bancroft’s geology. While many people know that we are the mineral capital of Canada ...

Centibillionaire Lives Matter

By Nate Smelle AT THIS POINT, it should come as no surprise to anyone living in Bancroft—or anywhere in Ontario, for that matter—that affordability has ...

The road to appeasement?

By Bill Kilpatrick Listening to local artist Arne Roosman speak about his experiences during the Second World War at a book launch at the Canadian ...

To spray, or not to spray

By Nate Smelle While walking along the Heritage Trail in L’Amable on the weekend I decided to take a detour away from the beaten path ...

Crossing the conservative Rubicon

By Bill Kilpatrick Julius Ceasar made a choice to cross the river Rubicon on Jan 10, 49 B.C.E. effectively starting the Roman civil war. It ...

The deadly art of forgetfulness

By Nate Smelle Every year on November 11, Canadians stop what they’re doing—if only for a few minutes—to bow their heads, listen to the haunting ...

Legions must speak out against authoritarianism

By Bill Kilpatrick It has been 107 years since the end of the First World War and 80 years since the end of the Second ...

Only one way forward on the road to progress

By Nate Smelle Whenever I spend a significant amount of time in another community in Ontario, I always return home to Bancroft with a renewed ...

List, what list? Nothing to see here, folks

By Nate Smelle A good friend recently asked me why I spend so much time writing about U.S. president Donald Trump instead of focusing on ...

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