Commentary

Territorial hissing

August 21, 2024

By Nate Smelle As nearly every federal election in Canada proves, what happens in the United States of America does not stay in the United ...

Will it be 2024 or 1984?

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As many in the United States and across the world rue the thought of a second Donald Trump ...

Local libraries offer more than you think

By Mike Riley When most folks think of libraries, they think of books, magazines, DVDs, and a place where you need to be really, really ...

Within ear shot

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 ...

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