More than a meal: Community partnerships help FTP feed hope every day

August 27, 2026 · 0 Comments

Behind every meal served at Family Transition Place (FTP) is a story of compassion, community, and care. For individuals and families arriving at the shelter, ...

Africa: Getting history wrong

by GWYNNE DYER “I think that there’s a strategy to divide and conquer and to create a very contrived confusion,” said Samuel Okuzeto Ablakwan, Ghana’s ...

Trying to see the fox through the hurly-burly

by JAMES MATTHEWS Once in a while, you find something shiny and bright through the murk. The Bancroft Times and Bancroft This Week, sister papers ...

The charade

by GWYNNE DYER Last month US President Donald Trump announced “a monumental step toward lasting peace and security” in Gaza. Mediators from the ‘Board of ...

The people you meet in your neighbourhood

by JAMES MATTHEWS Perspective is relative. How one person sees a situation, emotionally digests circumstances, and responds might be a thousand ways different from how ...

Get out of the way: Letting young people discover what they can do

This week, I have been spending my days in a room full of 10- to 13-year-olds and a lot of butter, flour, and sugar. It ...

AI and bio-weapons

by GWYNNE DYER ‘Artificial intelligence’ based on Large Language Models is shaping up to be the most efficient destroyer of value since the South Sea ...

Of mala, baseballs and a messy metaphor

by JAMES MATTHEWS Baseball and meditation are closely aligned, I think. This may be the cheesiest thing I’ll write for this space. But bear with ...

Cyril Ramaphosa and the law

by GWYNNE DYER It’s outrageous. You’re at your hobby farm in the country, just pottering around, so you stuff the $580,000 in your pocket under ...

Of panicked screams heard on crowded public transport

by JAMES MATTHEWS They’re everywhere! My jebus, they’re everywhere!” Only jebus wasn’t the word he used, but this is a family newspaper. “Too many of ...