Commentary

Seasonal movements

November 5, 2024

By Nate Smelle Each year, as autumn settles in across Ontario, a remarkable transformation takes place in the skies above. While most Ontarians are preparing ...

What happens in America …

By Nate Smelle One of the best, most welcoming things about living in North Hastings is how people here tend to look out for their ...

Thank you Donald! (Part one)

By Nate Smelle By the date of this newspaper’s publication, it will have been 2,933 days since now infamous Access Hollywood tape was released. For ...

A climate of silence

By Nate Smelle When I first began reporting here in Bancroft in 2012 it was amid the rise of the Idle No More movement’s nationwide ...

Instruments of peace

By Nate Smelle LIVING IN NORTH Hastings for almost 18 years now I have come to appreciate the value of tourism on many levels. Whether ...

Transparency in peril in South Algonquin Township

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Transparency, the hallmark of our democracy, and the accountability and public trust it brings with it, is in ...

Onyx’s time

By Nate Smelle It was around 10 years ago when a former acquaintance asked me if I would be willing to look after her friend’s ...

International Day of Peace

By Chris Houston Amidst the arms races between the global superpowers in the 1980s, Dr. Young Seek Choue of South Korea proposed the idea of ...

Canada seeking Paralympic glory in Paris

By Michael Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Paralympic Games in Paris began on Aug. 28 and go to Sept. 8. Over 4,000 athletes from ...

In celebration of labour

By Nate Smelle By the time you are reading this, most of you will have already began contemplating the implications of the unofficial end of ...

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