World Alzheimer’s Day shines a light on a devasting disease

September 19, 2023

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter World Alzheimer’s Day was on Sept. 21 and according to the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, nearly 50 million ...

The limits of suffering

By Bill Kilpatrick One of the main premises that any liberal-democratic society must be based on is the notion of individual liberty, meaning that, in ...

A reminder that stopping for school buses is mandatory

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Constable Joel Devenish, community safety/media relations officer with the Bancroft detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police issued a ...

Aloha reality

By Nate Smelle There are no words to describe the pain and anguish that the people of Maui are feeling in the wake of the ...

What are we fighting for?

By Nate Smelle Is there anything more valuable than peace? Since chatting with the Canadian Peace Museum’s founder and CEO, Chris Houston last week, I ...

Another killer summer

By Nate Smelle Growing up in a household where the weather channel regularly dominated the television screen, since my childhood I have always had an ...

Life or death?

By Nate Smelle Well, if the blanket of wildfire smoke that has been smothering us on a regular basis this summer wasn’t enough of a ...

Local smoke

By Nate Smelle June is a very special month in Ontario. It is when the trilliums bloom, the birds and the turtles nest, and the ...

Fresh air

By Nate Smelle As the old saying goes: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Usually this statement is used metaphorically, with the intention of acknowledging that ...

Collateral damage

By Nate Smelle One would think that with the stench of the COVID-19 pandemic still lingering in our hospitals and graveyards throughout Ontario and around ...

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