Trans Peer Outreach program aims to bridge a gap in local healthcare, advocacy, and community
Advocates say there is a severe lack of access to gender-affirming healthcare services in Peterborough.
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Fighting stigma and finding community: storytellers share their experiences with poverty, illness and domestic violence
Our Stories Our Voices program trains those who have experienced poverty, racialization, criminalization, disability or substance use to advocate through oral storytelling.
Election Day is here, and Peterborough’s new Canadians are excited
Housing and pandemic recovery are top of mind for this group of new voters
Peterborough families remember loved ones lost to overdose
“Every time he slipped, he would call me and he would be crying because he was so upset at himself. He said, Mom, you have no idea what it’s like when you have a craving like that.”
Kelli Marshall dances to honour residential school survivors and victims
Event planned for August 29 will showcase music and dance for residential school survivors
Caleb Musgrave on teaching, harvesting and growing food the Anishinaabeg way
Musgrave shares his knowledge in the hopes that more people will become confident in the wilderness
Newcomer youth write guidebook to life in Canada
The New Canadians Centre’s Young Leaders Council takes the lead to support incoming students during another pandemic school year
Homeward Bound is removing the barriers between single mothers and a new career
The program provides housing, childcare and mentorship so women can focus on their studies. This month, three participants will graduate from college and one is already employed.
The local — and national — effort to count cyclists
Local volunteers are assisting in a nationwide effort to count bicycle riders, but it’s not a first for Peterborough
