Commentary

Hopefulness during the metamorphosis

November 16, 2021

By Nate Smelle WELL, YET ANOTHER climate summit bringing together world leaders to confront the scientific facts that have been demanding their attention for decades ...

Blah, blah, blah

By Nate Smelle For nearly three decades, governments around the world have been meeting annually with the alleged intention of hammering out a meaningful response ...

Still a crime to be poor

By Nate Smelle Since I began reading our local newspapers in 2005, there have been articles and press releases appearing on a weekly basis that ...

Life or death

By Nate Smelle BEFORE YOU CAN even get one foot out the door in the morning at this time of year, the temperature grabs you ...

Refocusing hope

By Nate Smelle Since the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, on a weekly basis I have been receiving what can best be described as anti-scientific ...

Food for free thinkers

By Nate Smelle Since governments around the world began implementing public health measures to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control in the winter of 2020, ...

Naming the numbers

By Nate Smelle On Thursday, Sept. 30 it will have been 124 days since the carefully hidden bodies of 215 Indigenous children were found buried ...

Undercover of the big tent

By Nate Smelle It’s not even 6 a.m. yet on Tuesday, Sept. 21, and with the exception of the last two hours I spent in ...

Honouring a call to action

By Nate Smelle In June of 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released a multi-volume final report, that included 94 “calls to action.” ...

Low Fuel

By Nate Smelle Living in North Hastings, one quickly becomes accustomed to driving on a regular, if not a daily basis. In the last month ...

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