Commentary

The politics of cynicism

April 11, 2025

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 ...

Our interests

By Bill Kilpatrick Now that we are into a federal election it’s more important than ever to be thinking about our interests and how they ...

The ultra-greedy and the rest of us

By Nate Smelle THERE IS ALWAYS something in the news to worry about these days. I suppose this has been the case for as long ...

A peace that is no peace

By Bill Kilpatrick On Oct. 19, 1945, four short years before the Russians blew up their first atomic bomb, George Orwell, wrote a short story ...

Reform or revolution?

By Bill Kilpatrick In honour of International Women’s Day that was celebrated on March 8, I want to take a look at the life of ...

The public be damned

By Bill Kilpatrick Social Darwinism is the idea that takes the teachings of evolution by Charles Darwin, mainly “the survival of the fittest,” and applies ...

Americans are not our enemy…

By Bill Kilpatrick …BUT MAGA AND anyone who supports them is. I wrote something similar on my Facebook page the other day after I heard ...

At what point?

By Bill Kilpatrick During the conversation that I had with incumbent MPP Ric Bresee he made a comment about what he expects of his constituents. ...

Buy, buy Canadian pie

By Nate Smelle  IT’S JUST BEFORE 5 a.m. on Feb. 13 and I am doing what all the cool kids are doing—enjoying my first coffee ...

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