The blind world

November 30, 2023

By Bill Kilpatrick I DONT’T KNOW how many times that I had to break up a fight between my kids after one of them came ...

Lest we forget again

By Nate Smelle Since King George V first urged all countries in the British Commonwealth to observe Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, Canadians have ...

Religious rights versus human rights redux

By Bill Kilpatrick Spanish painter Francisco De Goya once said that, “The slumber of reason breeds monsters,” and at this point in time, reason, it ...

A waste of time

By Nate Smelle Over the past few months anyone who follows Bancroft This Week on Facebook will have noticed that the more than a decade ...

War: What is it good for?

By Nate Smelle Whether reading a newspaper, switching on the television, or logging into our social, everywhere we look for information we are reminded that ...

Turtles, butterflies, and common ground

By Nate Smelle BACK IN EARLY September, the Canadian Peace Museum announced their first Stories of Peace Award contest. In order to win this award, ...

World Alzheimer’s Day shines a light on a devasting disease

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter World Alzheimer’s Day was on Sept. 21 and according to the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, nearly 50 million ...

The limits of suffering

By Bill Kilpatrick One of the main premises that any liberal-democratic society must be based on is the notion of individual liberty, meaning that, in ...

A reminder that stopping for school buses is mandatory

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Constable Joel Devenish, community safety/media relations officer with the Bancroft detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police issued a ...