Politics
The Night Peterborough Blinked
City Hall crackled Monday night like a power line in a storm. On the table: a provincial mandate that says Peterborough has to cough up 4,700 new homes by 2031 or risk punishment from Queen’s […]
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Towering Ambition: How Peterborough’s Skyline Became a Numbers Game
Peterborough is waking up to a new skyline—and it’s not subtle. A seventeen‑storey glass-and-concrete tower is about to crash into East City’s backyards, a stark symbol of the province’s housing mandate and TVM Group’s relentless […]
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Ribfest 2025: Smoke, Sauce, and Summer Vibes Take Over Crary Park
Peterborough’s Ribfest returned in 2025 with the kind of smoky, saucy energy that reminded everyone why it’s a summer staple. This year, the festival moved to a new location at Del Crary Park, giving attendees […]
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Where the Music Took Over: Gussapalooza 25
It wasn’t Woodstock, but for three days in Cookstown, Ontario, it sure felt like the spirit was alive again. Fields packed with dreamers, guitars slung in every direction, voices carrying across the late-summer air—Gussapolooza 2025 […]
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Nicholas Campbell: Peterborough’s Rockabilly Dynamo Is Just Getting Started
At 20 years old, Nicholas Campbell has already earned the buzz of being “the real deal.” Like a young wolf raised in the honky-tonks and record shops of Peterborough, he picked up a guitar at […]
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Peterborough Musicfest 2025: Sixteen Nights on the Waterfront
Every summer, Peterborough orchestrates something most cities wouldn’t even dare to dream: sixteen nights of free, world-class music under the stars in their local park. No wristbands, no corporate cash-grabs. Just a community coming together […]
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Jeanne Truax: Rockabilly Rebel With a Modern Twist
Jeanne Truax isn’t playing it safe—she’s kicking down the doors of the Kawartha Lakes music scene with a sound that’s equal parts vintage swagger and sharp-edged indie fire. At just 22, the Dunsford-born rocker is […]
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Peterborough Folk Festival 2025: Where the Banjo Meets the Back Alley
Peterborough doesn’t usually make the national music radar. It’s a small city with a big river, too many Tim Hortons, and a reputation for being just a little too… But every August, the Peterborough Folk […]
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Carling Stephen: The Soul of a Thursday Night
On a quiet Thursday in downtown Peterborough, you can hear it before you see it—the low hum of conversation, the clink of pint glasses, and then that unmistakable voice. Inside The Black Horse Pub, Carling […]
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Hell’s Bells at Bonnerworth: A Savage Journey into Pickleball Politics in the Electric Heart of Peterborough
We were halfway through McDonnel Street when the tremors began — not from within, but from the earth itself. The rumble of municipal machinery, the unholy clank of backhoes defiling green space, all in the […]