Four crime and justice stories from 2025 that you might have missed

January 13, 2026

By Chris Houston If you love the type of crime and justice stories where there is a clear conclusion and the bad guy goes to ...

Dignity

By Bill Kilpatrick There is a saying that I’ve heard often around Bancroft, I’ve even used it myself, “If you don’t have at least three ...

Friends no more

By Bill Kilpatrick Sitting with my mother over the Christmas holidays chatting about current events, she paused, as we were talking about President Donald Trump’s ...

War is over … If you want it

By Nate Smelle Killing our “enemies” has always been the quickest path to achieve power for the feeble-minded. Fortunately, this road is always culminates at ...

Put Christ back in Christianity

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 ...