A waste of time

October 24, 2023

By Nate Smelle Over the past few months anyone who follows Bancroft This Week on Facebook will have noticed that the more than a decade ...

War: What is it good for?

By Nate Smelle Whether reading a newspaper, switching on the television, or logging into our social, everywhere we look for information we are reminded that ...

Turtles, butterflies, and common ground

By Nate Smelle BACK IN EARLY September, the Canadian Peace Museum announced their first Stories of Peace Award contest. In order to win this award, ...

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

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 ...