November 2025

Dr. Sylvie Bérard, a French Studies professor at Trent University, has been awarded the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation for her translation of The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai, translated into French as Les Sœurs de la Muée. The Governor General’s Literary Award is considered one of the highest literary distinctions in Canada….

Peterborough Currents is an independent, community-centered, local news outlet in Peterborough, Ontario. Though it was founded in 2017, Currents changed its organizational structure in February 2025; according to their website, “a privately owned business was no longer the appropriate organizational structure for a news outlet that citizens had come to value so deeply.” In Summer…