The future we face

April 22, 2025

By Bill Kilpatrick As I sit to write this editorial Canada is a mere seven days away from electing a new prime minister and the ...

Redefining value

By Nate Smelle It is Monday, April 21 and in a week from now Canadians will elect our next Prime Minister. As critical as this ...

No time for parrots and praise

By Nate Smelle Every time we are faced with an election in Canada, we are told to “get out and vote, because this election is ...

The politics of cynicism

By Bill Kilpatrick “You can’t trust the mainstream media, it’s all owned by big business,” “government media is all propaganda,” “politicians are all alike,” “power ...

Memory and forgetting

By Bill Kilpatrick In his 1978 book entitled The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera spoke about how to resist powerful forces through the ...

Our interests

By Bill Kilpatrick Now that we are into a federal election it’s more important than ever to be thinking about our interests and how they ...

The ultra-greedy and the rest of us

By Nate Smelle THERE IS ALWAYS something in the news to worry about these days. I suppose this has been the case for as long ...

A peace that is no peace

By Bill Kilpatrick On Oct. 19, 1945, four short years before the Russians blew up their first atomic bomb, George Orwell, wrote a short story ...

Reform or revolution?

By Bill Kilpatrick In honour of International Women’s Day that was celebrated on March 8, I want to take a look at the life of ...

The public be damned

By Bill Kilpatrick Social Darwinism is the idea that takes the teachings of evolution by Charles Darwin, mainly “the survival of the fittest,” and applies ...