Kemi Akapo was just elected as Peterborough’s newest City Councillor in the Town Ward, having taken the seat vacated by newly elected Mayor Diane Therrien, but the path to public service started early for her. In Grade 4, she took part in a fundraiser for a local orphanage. “I was super excited,” she says, “and […]
Stephen Wright may be new to Peterborough City Council, having just unseated Councillor Dave Haacke in the Northcrest Ward, but he’s been around politics for a long time. He first ran for office at the age of 20, when a simple question asked at a Winnipeg School Board meeting led to a run for school […]
The votes have been counted and the results are in: Peterborough has a new mayor. Town Ward Councillor Diane Therrien won in a landslide victory over incumbent Mayor Daryl Bennett, more than doubling his total, with 68.98% of the vote compared to his 31.02%. Peterborough also has three new City Councillors. In Otonabee Ward, Kim […]
The Peterborough municipal election is upon us! Online voting is now open (as of October 9, 2018), and the election date is October 22, 2018. This article will provide all the information you need to find out if you’re eligible to vote, get registered, find your polling station, and vote. Am I eligible to […]
An election issue that crops up time and again in conversations with artists is the ongoing struggle to find and retain affordable space to create their work. With real estate prices rising steeply and an influx of Torontonians fleeing unsustainable housing costs, gentrification is well under way in our downtown, and the arts community feels […]
A warning up top: this is an article about zoning. It’s an article about bylaw processes and land use designations and infrastructure development. But it’s also an article about the Parkway and the casino, about reducing crime levels and cancer rates, and about how we build a healthier, happier, more integrated community for all of […]
On Wednesday, in front of a packed crowd at Venture North, Mayor Daryl Bennett announced that he would be seeking a third term as mayor of Peterborough. It comes more than two months after Councillor Diane Therrien announced her candidacy at Artspace on May 3, and only two days before the nomination period closes and […]
Listen to the third episode of the Electric City Magazine Podcast! How can we respond to the largest public health crisis in modern Canadian history? Opioid addiction rates are growing, and Peterborough now has the fourth highest rate of overdose deaths in Ontario. A far cry from the traditional view of the ‘addict,’ opioid misuse […]
Plans to open a temporary overdose prevention site in Peterborough appear to be on hold while local social service agencies wait to learn how the new provincial government will respond to the opioid crisis. PARN, the local agency leading Peterborough’s harm reduction efforts, announced in March that, with the support of Peterborough Public Health and […]
Listen to the second episode of the Electric City Magazine Podcast! What is ‘food insecurity’? Did you know that for every four to five people who are food insecure, only one will be able to get to a food bank? Did you know that one in two female-lead families are food insecure? This episode features Will Pearson […]