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City Hall

CITY HALL: March 30 — Towers, Tweaks, and the Things Left Unsaid

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 […]

It’s going to rain. Are we ready for it?

With rain warnings in the forecast, it is a good time to remember that Peterborough has seen what happens when a storm stops being weather and turns into a civic disaster. The flood of July […]

CITY HALL: April 13 — The Decisions Before the Decisions

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 […]

Bicycle in Peterborough? The difference between infrastructure and symbolism.

Peterborough’s bike-lane argument usually gets framed like some culture-war yard sale: drivers on one side, cyclists on the other, everyone acting as if a painted line on asphalt is either the dawn of civilization or […]

Peterborough’s Last Tree Stands Are Becoming the City’s Quiet Battleground

Peterborough has always sold itself as a city with one foot in town and the other in the woods. The river, the trails, the parks, the old neighbourhood maples throwing shade over sidewalks that were […]

City Survey: Help shape Peterborough’s Cultural Future

The City of Peterborough is in the middle of shaping a new Municipal Cultural Plan — a document that will help decide where the city puts its money, attention, and long-term energy when it comes […]

City Hall says “Build it and they might come.”

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, […]

The Petes, The OHL, And The 0-Million Question

The Petes, The OHL, And The $170-Million Question

There is a quieter pressure campaign running underneath Peterborough’s proposed new downtown arena, and it wears a maroon jersey. For all the talk about concerts, tournaments, tourism, downtown revitalization, and economic spin-off, one of the […]

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