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Frozen Assets: How Peterborough Turned Culture into a Contact Sport

Peterborough, the so-called “Electric City,” has spent the last half-decade proving it believes in power — not just electricity, but concrete, steel, and, apparently, enough courts to keep a whole city bouncing. Council has invested […]

Pothole Politics: Peterborough’s Never-Ending Road to Nowhere

Drive five minutes in Peterborough and you’ll get a free chiropractic adjustment, courtesy of a pothole the size of a canoe. Welcome to a city where the roads are less a network and more a […]

City Council September 22 2025

City Council met September 22nd and, as usual, managed to combine money, mud, garbage, and teenagers into one evening of civic poetry. Money, money, money (or lack thereof).The accountants started things off with the city’s […]

Feeding the Electric City: Can Peterborough Solve Hunger Before Winter Hits?

September in Peterborough carries a certain unease. The nights are cooler, the shadows longer, and while most of the city is stocking up for back-to-school or haggling over end-of-summer barbecues, the people living on the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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