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Bruce Head is kawarthaNOW.com's managing editor, chief technical officer, and a contributing writer. If he has any spare time, he enjoys songwriting, playing acoustic guitar, and taking photos of Cait the border collie.
At the Peterborough city council meeting on November 4, 2025, councillor Joy Lachica raised concerns about the use of a procedural tactic to prevent debate after it was used in two straight meetings on the same item. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

Peterborough city councillor raises concerns about use of procedural tactic at council meetings

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Joy Lachica says 'call the question' is 'being weaponized' after tactic used for second time to prevent debate on GE heritage designation decision.
Parks Canada is replacing the upper and lower lock gates at Lock 20 - Ashburnham in Peterborough from November 2025 through April 2026. As pedestrians using the Trans Canada Trail normally cross the lock via the yellow bridge at the top of the lock gates, Parks Canada will be installing a temporary bridge to allow pedestrian access to the trail during the construction period. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

Parks Canada replacing lock gates at Lock 20 in Peterborough from November through April

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A temporary bridge will be installed on November 7 to allow pedestrian access on the Trans Canada Trail over the next six months.
Richard Freymond, the City of Peterborough's commissioner of finance and corporate services, presented a high-level overview of the city's 2026 draft budget at a general committee meeting of city council on November 3, 2025. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of City of Peterborough video)

City of Peterborough’s 2026 draft budget proposes 7.43% all-inclusive rate increase

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Public consultations and council deliberations set for November as city aims to finalize budget for December 8 adoption date.
Staff at One City Peterborough's Trinity Community Centre preparing to open its overnight drop-in program. (Photo: One City Peterborough 2024-25 annual report)

Peterborough city council awards $1.12 million low-barrier shelter contract to One City Peterborough

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Less than five months after rejecting expanded drop-in program funding for One City's Trinity Community Centre, council has reversed course.
The Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (PACAC) has recommended to city council that additional buildings in the General Electric factory complex receive heritage designation, including the facades of buildings 8 and 34 along Albert Street, to protect them from planned demolition by GE Vernova. (Photo: Google Maps)

Peterborough city council rejects heritage committee recommendation for additional GE building designations

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Council votes to retain its October 14 decision after a brief 10-minute special general committee meeting with no debate.
The Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (PACAC) has recommended to city council that additional buildings in the General Electric factory complex receive heritage designation, including the facades of buildings 8 and 34 along Albert Street, to protect them from planned demolition by GE Vernova. (Photo: Google Maps)

Heritage committee recommends Peterborough city council expand building designations at GE factory complex

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PACAC wants five building facades and the former power house added to heritage designation as GE Vernova prepares to demolish buildings.
The General Electric factory complex at 107 Park Street North in downtown Peterborough, which began operations in 1891 as the Canadian Works of the Thomas Edison Company and later continued under General Electric. The site includes a complex of 33 buildings built between 1891 and 1981 and used for industrial manufacturing and ancillary purposes. In 2018, General Electric ceased its manufacturing activities on the site, with most of the buildings now decomissioned with machinery and equipment removed. (Photo: Google Earth)

Ontario’s environment minister responds to Peterborough mayor on proposed demolition of toxic General Electric...

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October 24 letter states ministry staff will ensure demolition process 'protects public health and the environment'.
Terry, a Peterborough resident who supports himself by delivering papers and recycling bottles and cans, tries out the prototype sleeping cabin built by Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes (PATH). After leasing a site at 385 Lansdowne Street East from Habitat for Humanity Peterborough and Kawartha Region, PATH applied to the City of Peterborough for a temporary use zoning by-law amendment to build 24 one-room sleeping cabins with wrap-around services to help address the city's homelessness crisis. Although city staff recommended approval of the application, Peterborough city council voted against it, prompting PATH to appeal the decision to the Ontario Land Tribunal. (Photo: Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes)

Tribunal rejects Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes appeal, ending plans for Lansdowne St. sleeping...

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Ontario Land Tribunal upholds city council's 2024 decision, ruling cabins are residential dwellings too close to neighbouring industry,
Lesley Heighway, president and CEO of the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Foundation, received a standing ovation as she accepted the Business Citizen of the Year award at the Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce's 23rd annual Peterborough Business Excellence s at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on October 22, 2025. (Photo: Bruce Head / kawarthaNOW)

PRHC Foundation president and CEO Lesley Heighway named Peterborough’s Business Citizen of the Year

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The Peterborough and the Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce's annual Peterborough Business Excellence Awards recognized 21 businesses and individuals,
An audience in Stratford watches a screening of "We Lend A Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes", produced and directed by Colin Field with historical producer Bonnie Sitter, who wrote the 2019 book "Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: Memories of Ontario Farmerettes" with retired journalist Shirleyan English. (Photo via welendahand.ca)

Award-winning Farmerettes documentary comes to Lakefield on November 26

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'We Lend A Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes' tells the story of the 40,000 teenage girls who worked Canadian farms during World War II.
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