Councillors representing areas outside downtown tend to treat the city as a business. They try to keep taxes down, they balk ...

Gabe Pollock is the co-editor of Peterborough Currents. He’s a writer, editor, and arts administrator based in ...

East of the City of Peterborough, the landscape is carved into hundreds of gentle hills — the Peterborough Drumlin Field. These hills were created thousands of years ago by the last glacier to cover ...

There are five candidates running to be the next mayor of Peterborough. Read through who they are and what they’re promising in our round-up below. The Peterborough Currents team has prepared a short ...

This past spring, the Peterborough chapter of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) shuttered the doors to its popular Free Market program, which offered a space at Sadleir House where ...

The story of The Greatest Show’s unlikely 1988 production at Peterborough’s Del Crary Park is worthy of a small book. In composer/author R. Murray Schafer’s notes to the performers describing his ...

Last year, when city councillors approved the 2024 city budget with a 7 percent tax hike, they called the budget a “course correction.” Mayor Jeff Leal explained that additional investments were ...

City workers, accompanied by Peterborough police, forced the dismantling of an encampment in an East City park on Tuesday. Aaron Parker said city workers woke him and his partner Jackie in their tent ...

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In November, world leaders, climate activists, lobbyists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) went to Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26. The stated aim was to unite ...