Commentary

What are we fighting for?

August 1, 2023

By Nate Smelle Is there anything more valuable than peace? Since chatting with the Canadian Peace Museum’s founder and CEO, Chris Houston last week, I ...

Another killer summer

By Nate Smelle Growing up in a household where the weather channel regularly dominated the television screen, since my childhood I have always had an ...

Life or death?

By Nate Smelle Well, if the blanket of wildfire smoke that has been smothering us on a regular basis this summer wasn’t enough of a ...

Local smoke

By Nate Smelle June is a very special month in Ontario. It is when the trilliums bloom, the birds and the turtles nest, and the ...

Fresh air

By Nate Smelle As the old saying goes: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Usually this statement is used metaphorically, with the intention of acknowledging that ...

Collateral damage

By Nate Smelle One would think that with the stench of the COVID-19 pandemic still lingering in our hospitals and graveyards throughout Ontario and around ...

A new way of thinking

By Nate Smelle Over the past three-plus years, everyone of us has had to learn to adapt our lifestyle in order to do our part ...

To watch, or not to watch

By Nate Smelle Well, they did it! The Toronto Maple Leafs have won their first playoff series since 2004. With the exception of a few ...

The missing buzz

By Nate Smelle IN MY FIRST spring reporting for Bancroft This Week back in 2013, I recall there being a buzz leading up to April ...

The significance of small change

By Nate Smelle Last Wednesday, I had a chance to speak with the CEO of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Lynne Groulx about the ...

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