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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) has cancelled the 2020 Taste of Downtown event scheduled for Saturday, June 6. The event will return in 2021. (Photo: Peterborough DBIA)

Taste of Downtown in Peterborough cancelled for 2020 due to COVID-19

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Annual event was scheduled to take place on Charlotte Street in downtown Peterborough on June 6.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on April 22, 2020 announcing the new Canada Emergency Student Benefit. (Photo: Office of the Prime Minister / YouTube)

Federal government announces new COVID-19 Canada Emergency Student Benefit

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Post-secondary students and recent graduates can receive $1,250 per month from May to August.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford during a media update about COVID-19 on April 22, 2020. (Screenshot: Premier's Office / YouTube)

Premier Ford won’t commit to loosening of Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions by Victoria Day weekend

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Ontario has extended all emergency orders until May 6, with state of emergency continuing until May 12.
Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region - April 22, 2020

Daily COVID-19 update for Peterborough and the greater Kawarthas region – April 22, 2020

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Cases and deaths as reported by regional health units: Peterborough Public Health; Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit; and Hastings Prince Edward Public Health.
Police tape

Kawartha Lakes man faces second-degree murder charges

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Richard Brachman is accused in the death of Glen Mark at a Valley Road home on April 21.
Steve Carell stars as General Mark R. Naird in the new Netflix original comedy series "Space Force", about a group of people taskes with creating Donald Trump's new branch of the U.S. military. Also starring John Malkovich, Ben Schwartz, and Lisa Kudrow, the series premieres on Netflix Canada on May 29, 2020. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in May 2020

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Featuring Space Force with Steve Carell, Jerry Seinfeld comedy special, season two of Dead to Me, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend, and more
The main entrance of Peterborough Regional Health Centre. (Photo: PRHC)

COVID-19 outbreak at Peterborough Regional Health Centre declared over

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No additional positive cases since initial three staff cases; all others tested on affected unit tested negative.
Stay Home Save Lives sign

Peterborough residents who do not self-isolate may be fined $5,000 daily

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Peterborough Public Health issues order requiring people known or suspected to have COVID-19 to self-isolate for 14 days.
Children learn about turtles from Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre at Ken Reid Conservation Area in July 2019. Kawartha Conservation has cancelled all of its 2020 summer camps, programming, and events because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Kawartha Conservation / Facebook)

Kawartha Conservation cancels all summer kids’ camps and other programming

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Also cancelled are all seniors' walks, forest bathing, parent and tot program, and tree planting initiatives.
While healthcare workers at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) are prepared and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, there's an urgent need for the technology and supplies that will help the hospital's doctors, nurses, and staff save patients' lives while protecting their own. Right now, donors have a special opportunity to double the impact of their gifts to the PRHC Foundation's COVID-19 response fund thanks to a generous matching gift of up to $50,000 from long-time PRHC champions David and Patricia Morton. (Photo: Michael Hurcomb)

Peterborough Regional Health Centre needs your help now more than ever

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$50,000 matching gift from local philanthropists David and Patricia Morton will double the impact of donations to the PRHC Foundation's COVID-19 response fund.
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