Do as I do

December 10, 2024

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 ...

What happens in America …

By Nate Smelle One of the best, most welcoming things about living in North Hastings is how people here tend to look out for their ...

Thank you Donald! (Part one)

By Nate Smelle By the date of this newspaper’s publication, it will have been 2,933 days since now infamous Access Hollywood tape was released. For ...