Commentary

Put Christ back in Christianity

December 22, 2025

By Bill Kilpatrick DURING MY HOUR-LONG conversation with Kevin Taylor about his motivation for starting friends for dinner, he stated very bluntly that, while Friends ...

For Christ’s sake

By Nate Smelle AS TIME PASSES, we humans tend to become more fixated on finding answers to difficult questions. Often the older we get, the ...

Friends for Dinner

By Bill Kilpatrick I attended my first ever friends for dinner this past weekend and it gave me a lot to reflect on as we ...

Naughty or Nice?

By Nate Smelle Well, we are only a week away from that holiest of holy days when Santa Claus comes to town and drops off ...

Eighty per cent

By Bill Kilpatrick Speaking with a local business owner last week about intimate partner violence, the owner stated something that everyone needs to hear. The ...

Polanada

By Bill Kilpatrick Many people don’t fully understand the significance of Bancroft’s geology. While many people know that we are the mineral capital of Canada ...

Centibillionaire Lives Matter

By Nate Smelle AT THIS POINT, it should come as no surprise to anyone living in Bancroft—or anywhere in Ontario, for that matter—that affordability has ...

The road to appeasement?

By Bill Kilpatrick Listening to local artist Arne Roosman speak about his experiences during the Second World War at a book launch at the Canadian ...

To spray, or not to spray

By Nate Smelle While walking along the Heritage Trail in L’Amable on the weekend I decided to take a detour away from the beaten path ...

Crossing the conservative Rubicon

By Bill Kilpatrick Julius Ceasar made a choice to cross the river Rubicon on Jan 10, 49 B.C.E. effectively starting the Roman civil war. It ...

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