Commentary

Within ear shot

July 16, 2024

By Bill Kilpatrick When I teach my course on how to have a non-violent relationship one of the hardest things for many people to over ...

The battle for Ontario

By Bill Kilpatrick FOR THOSE WHO may be wondering why Premier Doug Ford would do something so stupid like risking the financial viability of the ...

Kiss my Butker

By Bill Kilpatrick By now many people reading this will have heard of The Kansas City Chief’s Kicker, Harrison Butker, and his interesting commencement speech ...

Two per cent

By Bill Kilpatrick APPAREBTLY SOME 23 United States Senators have their britches in a knot about how much money Canada spends on its defense and ...

The tyranny of hat etiquette

By Bill Kilpatrick PHILLIP TREACY ONCE quipped that, “How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about,” and hats, for me ...

They/them

By Bill Kilpatrick Imagine witnessing the following exchange: you see two people meet and one is a person of colour who has what appears to ...

The joys of fascism: Part two

By Bill Kilpatrick There is a quote circulating around Facebook by the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell regarding fascism and it goes like this, “The first ...

The price of making it personal

By Bill Kilpatrick AT THE APRIL 9 meeting of Wollaston council it was looking like the Coe Hill Riders ATV Club would have little difficulty ...

Axe the facts

By Nate Smelle DRIVING THROUGH BANCROFT on April Fool’s Day, I noticed a small, ragtag gang of protesters standing along the roadside parking lot at ...

A Blue Box full of trash

By Nate Smelle IF YOU HAVE’NT already heard the chatter regarding the Ford government’s changes to the Blue Box Program, buckle up buck-a-roos you’re in ...

« Previous PageNext Page »
Page Reader Press Enter to Read Page Content Out Loud Press Enter to Pause or Restart Reading Page Content Out Loud Press Enter to Stop Reading Page Content Out Loud Screen Reader Support