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Refocusing hope

October 20, 2021

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 ...

A War of Terror

By Nate Smelle As of Saturday, Sept. 11, two decades will have passed since Osama Bin Laden orchestrated the attack on the World Trade Centre ...

A simpler time?

By Nate Smelle Every edition of Bancroft This Week, or any community newspaper for that matter, is a time capsule archiving a specific day and ...

The myth of herd immunity

By Nate Smelle On my way to town the other morning I noticed there was a haziness unlike the usual humidity lingering in the air ...

Choosing a home

NATE SMELLEStaff WHEN I FIRST VISITED North Hastings more than 20 years ago as a tourist, I was immediately drawn in by the natural beauty ...

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