Ontario Premier Doug Ford was in Peterborough on Monday, November 9th to announce nearly $40 million in Provincial funding to be awarded to the city through the Province’s Development Charge Reduction Program. Ford was joined by Ministers Rob Flack and Vic Fideli, as well as Liberal MP Emma Harrison, outgoing Mayor Jeff Leal, Mayor-elect Michael…
Peterborough—Kawartha MPP Dave Smith’s “Action Centre” constituency office will be moving, a decision the Progressive Conservative MPP attributes to eleven weeks of constant protest outside his current Chemong Road office. Smith said that the repeated demonstrations had a negative effect on neighbouring businesses in the Chemong Rd. plaza, and that when the constituency office’s lease…
Peterborough residents gathered outside MPP Dave Smith’s office on the afternoon of Saturday, April 25th, to voice their frustrations with Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government. The protest was one of many province-wide demonstrations, occurring on the same day, in response to recent changes to Freedom of Information legislation, and the Premier’s purchase of a…
