Peterborough Currents

You’re reading the July 16, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here. Hi, I’m Currents co-editor Alex Karn. Welcome to your weekly Peterborough Currents email newsletter! This week’s newsletter is jam-packed, with a story about youth empowerment through music, news updates from across the city, event listings, and a new weekly challenge we hope you’ll enjoy.

Newcomers to Canada and longtime Nogojiwanong residents getting settled in the voyageur canoe. (Photo: Alex Karn) You’re reading the July 7, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here. Hi, I’m Alex Karn and I’m thrilled to welcome you to this week’s Peterborough Currents email newsletter! It’s been a while, but I’m so grateful to be back on the team as Peterborough Currents’ new co-editor.

Curve Lake First Nation elder Janet McCue teaching children traditional songs at the Lessons from the Land event on July 1. (Photo: Alex Karn) Dozens of tiny toads hopped across the stone pavers outside the Canadian Canoe Museum on July 1, finding refuge from the scorching sun underneath folding chairs, between volunteers’ feet, and in the shade cast by boxes of supplies set on the grass as organizers prepared for the sixth annual Lessons from the Land event.

Peterborough—Kawartha MPP Dave Smith speaks at the Peterborough HART Hub launch, as Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock MPP Laurie Scott (left) and Honorable Vijay Thanigasalam, Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Ontario Ministry of Health (right) look on. (Photo by Gabe Pollock) You’re reading the June 29, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here.

You’re reading the June 22, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here. Hi, I’m Currents co-editor David Tough. Welcome to your weekly Peterborough Currents email newsletter! This week I talked to some friends about their gardens, and had some thoughts of my own about the process of turning neglected and needy lawns into places for pollinators.

OPSEU leaders speaking at a demonstration outside constituency office of MPP Dave Smith on Aylmer Street. (Photo by Gabe Pollock) You’re reading the June 15, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here. Greetings, it’s co-editor Gabe Pollock, here with your weekly Peterborough Currents newsletter.

Strikers gather outside MPP Dave Smith’s constituency office on Chemong Road. (Photo by Gabe Pollock) Tom Newton has worked multiple jobs at Community Living Trent Highlands. The non-profit organization helps children and adults with developmental delays in Peterborough, Haliburton, and Kawartha Lakes.

(Photo from keithrielformayor.ca) Peterborough mayoral candidate Keith Riel announced last month that he will support the expansion of public transit in the city if he wins this fall’s election. As reported in the Peterborough Examiner by Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay, Riel signed a pledge at a meeting with labour leaders in May, committing to “invest” in Peterborough Transit in line with the Transportation Master Plan of 2024.

You’re reading the June 1, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here. Hi there, it’s Currents co-editor Gabe Pollock, here with your weekly Peterborough Currents email newsletter. Food is such a fundamental part of our lives.

You’re reading the May 45, 2026 edition of the Peterborough Currents email newsletter. To receive our email newsletters straight to your inbox, sign up here. Hi, I’m Currents co-editor David Tough. Welcome to your weekly Peterborough Currents email newsletter! I wrote an article about what users think of Peterborough’s bus system a couple weeks ago, and a lot of readers responded to it. I’m always happy to read what people think of what we’re writing.