Peterborough Currents turned five years old in 2025. We're hiring a new editor to lead our news production going forward.

The story of The Greatest Show’s unlikely 1988 production at Peterborough’s Del Crary Park is worthy of a small book. In composer/author R. Murray Schafer’s notes to the performers describing his ...

Malaika Collette is an eighteen-year-old climate activist from Peterborough. In November, she attended the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference as an observer. (Photo courtesy of Malaika ...

Through a city-funded program at B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop, Alkhalil received equipment and training to make his first winter cycling experience a positive one. B!KE’s Winter Wheels ...

In our sixth episode of the Budget Week podcast, co-publishers Ayesha Barmania and Will Pearson go over how the draft 2021 municipal budget addresses the issue of affordable housing and homelessness.

Last week, Peterborough city councillors sat as the finance committee to review each page of the 2021 draft municipal budget highlights book. This year, it was three evenings of deliberations and ...

Vivian Chong performed her one-woman show “Blind Dates” at Market Hall on March 20, 2025. (Photo: Alex Karn) When blind playwright, composer and Dora Award nominated performer Vivian Chong brought her ...

Jackson Pind is a mixed Settler-Anishinaabe Historian of Indigenous education who focuses on the history of Indian Day Schools in Ontario. He is currently an Assistant Professor, Indigenous ...

At 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.

This summer, the Peterborough Currents team produced our first print publication: a series of three walking guides to help you explore local creeks. And now you can purchase all three of them for $16 ...

The latest articles about arts and culture in Peterborough, Ontario. Peterborough Currents profiles the local creative community in the area.

We tried to find a delicate way of phrasing this, but there isn’t one. So here we go: Peterborough Currents is running out of money. The last time we reviewed the financials, we had a little more than ...