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For almost ten years, By the Bushel has been connecting people in Peterborough to the food produced by local farmers. At that same time, they’ve been cultivating relationships between people who eat food and people who grow it, something that executive director Paula Anderson says is one of the keys to a healthy local food […]

A few years I go, I became weirdly obsessed with a short-lived Bravo TV show called Work of Art. The show took the tried-and-true reality competition show formula of Top Chef and Project Runway, and applied it to the world of fine art. It was a bizarre show, and rightly canceled after one season, but […]

{Pop/Rant] It’s been brought to my attention that a recent column of mine (“Anywhere But Here: A Modest Proposal”) has ruffled a few feathers in the downtown core among a certain element who feel like calling for the wholesale murder of vulnerable drug users is in some way “heartless,” “cruel,” or “complete and total madness.” […]

As a founding director of the Endeavour Centre, a local sustainable building school, Jen Feigin has spent almost a decade teaching the skills of ecologically friendly construction to students in Peterborough. In addition, Feigin has worked to make the construction trades more accessible and supportive for women. She regularly leads two-day carpentry workshops for women, […]

She walked by the large-windowed, tiny room on George Street several times before “working up the nerve,” as she put it, to step inside. Since then, she’s been back to the space two to three times a week, often with a family member. She always comes eager to make art, to encourage other newcomers in […]

You’ve likely seen him marching purposefully downtown in bare feet until the first snowfall, with thick glasses and long hair, bearded and braided, in a big army overcoat brightly embellished with red fabric swatches. Hartley Stephenson is his own man, a proud man, opinionated, and wildly creative, a free spirit if there ever was one. […]

For the better part of three decades, Drew Hayden Taylor has been shining a light on contemporary Indigenous life and culture, and doing so with humour and style. He has written award-winning comedic and dramatic plays, articles, novels, non-fiction, short stories, TV series, and documentaries, but what remains consistent is an insightful, compassionate, and fiendishly […]