Commentary

Here comes the sun

March 16, 2021

By Nate Smelle Of all the months in the year, March bears the most signs of seasonal change. When the icicles start dripping, the water ...

A new tool

By Nate Smelle While listening to the March 3 meeting of Hastings Highlands council on YouTube over the weekend, my mind returned to the focus ...

Sunshine, lollipops and virtual campaigns

March 3, 2021 By Nate Smelle Since the recent announcement from Hastings-Lennox and Addington’s former MP Mike Bossio that he would be running in the ...

Achtung eh!

Feb. 16, 2021 By Nate Smelle Last week instead of tuning into programs such as The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, ...

Game-changers

Feb. 9, 2021 By Nate Smelle Super Bowl Sunday … is there a more sacred day of the year in the United States? Some might ...

Making the most of cabin fever

Feb. 2, 2021 By Nate Smelle Today is Groundhog Day. Like clockwork, this morning every Ontarian’s favourite meteorologist – Wiarton Willie – emerged from his ...

One year later

Jan. 27, 2021 By Nate Smelle Monday, Jan. 25 marked exactly one year since the first case of COVID-19 appeared in Canada. Reflecting on the ...

Questioning Conservatives

Jan. 19, 2021 By Nate Smelle Since Hastings Lennox and Addington MP Derek Sloan unseated our area’s former MP Mike Bossio in 2019, he has ...

A taste of sedition

Jan. 12, 2021 By Nate Smelle Sedition, insurrection, insurgency, siege, coup … are all words not to be used lightly. Yet, in the last week ...

Fear and loathing on the front-lines of the pandemic

Jan. 5, 2021 By Nate Smelle Looking back on the past year it is hard to imagine a scenario in which anyone alive is not ...

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