Commentary

The unwellness industry

January 7, 2025

By Bill Kilpatrick This past summer, after coughing up blood for a couple weeks I went to the doctor, had a CT scan and found ...

The 51st state? Take off, eh!

By Nate Smelle WITH THE FIRST sunrise of 2025 inching towards the horizon, once again we find ourselves looking back on the year behind us, ...

The year that will please nobody

By Bill Kilpatrick It’s that time again when we editorial writers pen our final editorials for the year, and this seems like an important one ...

Do as I do

By Bill Kilpatrick As someone who has worked as a domestic violence group facilitator for the past 13 years it’s deeply troubling to see the ...

The cost of giving and not giving

By Bill Kilpatrick What do Rupert Grint, Amazon, and Churches have in common? None of them, it would seem, really like to pay taxes. Grint, ...

Tolerating intolerable freedom

By Bill Kilpatrick In Karl Popper’s 1945 book The Open Society and its Enemies he posed a simple question, a question that seems more pertinent ...

The right-left-centre divide

By Bill Kilpatrick There’s a saying about the political divide between the right and the left and it goes like this, “The right wing and ...

A lowercase ‘g’

By Nate Smelle While watching the Bancroft Jets put on a show at the North Hastings Community Centre last weekend, I found myself thinking about ...

Threatening free speech

By Nate Smelle Well, it’s just after 3 a.m. on Nov. 5 and I am wide awake, anxiously awaiting the outcome of the next 24 ...

Seasonal movements

By Nate Smelle Each year, as autumn settles in across Ontario, a remarkable transformation takes place in the skies above. While most Ontarians are preparing ...

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