Premier Doug Ford had sharp words for students protesting changes the provincial government made to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) in February. “Give your head a shake kids,” Ford said to students in response to a question asked to him at a November 9th press conference in Peterborough. “Some kids…they say ‘let’s all run…
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…
On the morning of Saturday, August 29th, members of the Peterborough community gathered outside of city hall to demonstrate against the Dominion Society of Canada, a far-right, anti-immigration and ethno-nationalist organization. The organization drew attention recently for a spate of posters promoting “remigration,” a policy advocating the force deportation of Canadians not descended from French,…
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…
