Brett Throop

Biography

Brett Throop is a reporter based in Peterborough. He previously worked as a radio producer for CBC in Ottawa and Toronto. His writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Edmonton Journal, the Ottawa Citizen, Canadian Architect and the Peterborough Examiner.

Newsletter: Jackson Park approved for heritage designation
Brett Throop
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December 7, 2021

As the pandemic raged, opioid poisoning deaths surged in Peterborough. We looked behind the numbers.
Brett Throop
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December 1, 2021

Newsletter: A dramatic rise in emergency shelter bans
Brett Throop
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November 24, 2021
Two shopping carts loaded with clothes and bags.

“They have nowhere to go”: Low vacancy in Peterborough’s emergency shelters fuels push to end tenting ban in city parks
Brett Throop
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November 9, 2021
A composite image showing the approved safe consumption site and photos of the six candidates.

Most Peterborough–Kawartha candidates support a local drug consumption site; Ferreri won’t say
Brett Throop
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September 17, 2021

Grade 11 student in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle beside Adam Scott high school
Brett Throop
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September 9, 2021