That morning, the city had released Peterborough’s proposed Climate Change Action Plan 2.0. Replacing a region-wide plan from ...

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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 ...

There’s a patch of grass in front of Tiny Budd’s west-end Peterborough home where the neighbourhood kids like to play. Budd, 76, feels a sense of satisfaction seeing them from her kitchen window. The ...

There’s a divide among mental health inpatients at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). It’s between those who have access to the outdoors and those who don’t. Most mental health units at ...

Kairos Non-Profit Housing has provided homes to women-led families fleeing abuse for almost 40 years. (Illustration: Brooklin Stormie) In 1985, Sister Joyce Murray was looking for a way to give back ...

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 ...

On a hot evening this spring, I roll up to the corner of Water Street and Parkhill Road to meet my friend Mikey. We are there to eat a Peterborough delicacy Mikey introduced me to almost twenty years ...

Peterborough Currents had a busy year in 2023. We posted more than 60 articles to our website. We released 10 podcast episodes. And we sent 30 email newsletters to our audience of 4,900 subscribers.

News broke over the weekend that an unmarked mass grave for 215 children was discovered at a former residential school site in British Columbia. Since then, a memorial has sprung up at Peterborough ...