Politics

Peterborough is preparing to spend somewhere in the neighbourhood of $170 million on a new downtown Multi-Use Sport and Event Centre, and the sales pitch arrives wrapped in all the usual municipal vocabulary: revitalization, tourism, […]

Monday night at City Hall wasn’t about decisions. It was about lining them up. The April 13 General Committee meeting did what these meetings are designed to do: move things into place so that when […]

Monday night at City Hall had that familiar rhythm: a few big ideas dressed as progress, a handful of procedural tune-ups, and a long list of things everyone knows are urgent but somehow never quite […]

City Hall this week leaned hard into the future — glass, steel, and planning language — while the present sat patiently off to the side, waiting to be invited into the conversation. The main attraction […]

City Hall this week spent a fair bit of time talking about height — specifically how high Peterborough might soon reach into the sky — while a few of the city’s more stubborn problems sat […]

Budgets, Towers, and the Long GameWhen City Hall says “moderate increase,” it usually means someone somewhere is about to notice. Peterborough entered 2026 carrying the newly adopted municipal budget — the one that began life […]

City Hall spent the week doing what cities do best: rearranging the visible deckchairs while pushing the real cost further down the ship. They called it “budget management.” I call it economics under fluorescent lighting. […]

In Peterborough, we like to sentimentalize the old CGE buildings — the brick cathedrals of our industrial glory days, when the lights stayed on, the shifts were full, and the city’s nickname actually made sense. […]

It’s late October in Peterborough, and the cold’s already got teeth. You can feel it coming off the river, crawling down George Street, cutting through the canvas of the tent encampments that have become part […]

Peterborough’s bike lane strategy reads like a love letter to Dutch urbanism penned by someone who’s never actually been to Amsterdam. There’s an earnestness to it — the kind that produces PowerPoints, not progress. We’ve […]