The scale of change the plan calls for is massive. As is the $2.2 billion of public and private investment required. A recent Peterborough Examiner editorial argues the city won’t be able to drum up ...

Local musicians Cormac Culkeen and Michael Cloud Duguay are longtime creative collaborators and close friends. (Photo: Luke Best) This article was originally published in the Spring 2025 issue of the ...

As the owner of Bijoux Bar, Shannon Mak is continuing a family legacy in downtown Peterborough. (Photo: Brett Throop) When Shannon Mak opened Le Petit Bar (now called Bijoux Bar) on Water Street in ...

Currents reached out to Ontario’s Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services for this story. The ministry’s media team did not answer when asked why fewer people with developmental ...

MP candidates debated housing and homelessness issues at All Saints Anglican Church on April 9. (Photo: Alex Karn) Janet and Greg Hayes had never been to a political debate before. But faced with “the ...

Logging continues to be permitted in Algonquin Provincial Park. (Screenshot courtesy of Logging Algonquin) The Catholic church hall in Downeyville, Ont., comes alive with song and dance on St. Patrick ...

The Peterborough Currents podcast dives into the 2025 municipal budget in its latest episode. (Photo: Will Pearson) Last year, when city councillors approved the 2024 city budget with a 7 percent tax ...

Social assistance health benefits are facing budget cuts as councillors try to trim next year’s tax increase. (Photo: Will Pearson) This is a corrected story. A previous version of the article ...

The city ordered an archaeological assessment of 539 George St. last year after the current owner of the property, Toronto developer ZZY Property Group, applied to build a six-storey apartment ...

How did the City of Peterborough evolve from a small town plot in the 1820s to the much bigger city that we know today? Through a series of incremental boundary expansions that, one by one, added to ...

This year’s IOAD event in Peterborough featured music and poems performed in front of a backdrop of white crosses. (Photo: Alex Karn) Families gathered at Millennium Park on Friday, August 30 to ...

PARD instructor Wendy Carruthers with Doc, a “people-pleasing” horse in his late-20s. (Photo: Will Pearson) Doc and the other “people-pleasers” stand calmly as they’re groomed and tacked up by a fleet ...