Common ground

May 27, 2025

By Nate Smelle Less than 24 hours after Prime Minister-elect Mark Carney met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and told him ...

Making sense?

By Bill Kilpatrick While it’s no secret that I’m not a fan of Pierre Poilievre, it might surprise you to know that I’m also not ...

Go green for mental health this May

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter May is mental health awareness month, and it’s a good time to acknowledge that it’s okay to not ...

Thoughts on freedom

By Bill Kilpatrick The name Milton Friedman is much more common now than it was some 60 years ago when he penned his now well-known ...

This too shall pass

By Bill Kilpatrick It’s hard to be a student of modern European history and have hope these days. An amusing cartoon with a father and ...

The future we face

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 ...

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