Tag: Peterborough Currents
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Kelli Marshall dances to honour residential school survivors and victims
Kelli Marshall has been dancing all of her life. And in the last nine years she has bridged her passion for dance with her Anishinaabe culture and teachings. As she learns and engages with these dances, Marshall says she wants to offer healing dances to honour survivors and victims of residential schools. She is organizing…
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The local — and national — effort to count cyclists
Early this morning, Kalen Alexander was sitting on the corner of Charlotte and George Streets making note of each cyclist who passed. She is volunteering her time in the first ever national cyclist count, called the Pedal Poll, organized by Vélo Canada Bikes. Alexander sat for two hours this morning, from 7 to 9 a.m.,…
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In photos: Community mourns for children lost to residential schools
An impromptu memorial has sprung up at Peterborough city hall. Community members are leaving children’s toys, teddy bears and shoes to mourn the unknown number of children who died in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.
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LA Alfonso explores a stranger’s strange archive in Agent Sunless
Peterborough-based media artist LA Alfonso broadcasts “the real-time edit of a documentary,” in his new series.
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Safer supply pilot project will study viability for small cities and rural communities
The Peterborough 360 Degree Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic is leading a research project that explores how communities like Peterborough can provide a legal and regulated supply of opioids to people who use drugs
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Health unit’s vaccine transparency report discloses when doses are given to ineligible recipients
We took a look through the health unit’s vaccine transparency report and here’s what we found.
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Newsletter: The City says it wants dialogue with citizens. How should that work in practice?
Good morning,This is the Peterborough Currents News and Updates newsletter, where we bring you local stories straight to your email inbox. As a journalist, a fair amount of my time is spent tracking down information: the whats, the whens, the whos of notable current events – a lot of that information is available publicly if…
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Transgender patrons of the Peterborough Sport and Wellness Centre reflect on proposed gender-neutral change rooms
The new design for an inclusive universal locker room at PSWC proposes to replace gendered change rooms. Here’s what four transgender patrons of the gym think of the proposed plan.
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Neighbours podcast: Peter Williams on how “connection, community and belonging” are at the core of harm reduction
Peter Williams has a long history doing harm reduction work, though he didn’t necessarily realize it as such at the time, but he notices now looking back on it. “What I know now looking back is that I was doing harm reduction work but that wasn’t necessarily the framework for it,” he says during our…
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Neighbours podcast: How Peterborough Drug Strategy brings together a dozen organizations in a coordinated response
The Peterborough Drug Strategy was started in 2009 as a way to bring different organizations together to coordinate a joint response to the drug crisis. Today, they’re the name behind the projects making headlines responding to the overdose crisis: from the Consumption and Treatment Services site to the Mobile Supportive Overdose Resource Team and many…