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Why does a major street with three schools nearby not have sidewalks to begin with? Can the city really not afford to build one? And what does all of this say about the way Peterborough has been developing in recent decades?

With the Arthur team tied up in print deadlines, Will Pearson and Brett Throop from Currents explore these questions in the latest episode of this special podcast series on the city’s 2024 budget deliberations.

Links:

⁠Arthur Newspaper⁠

⁠Peterborough Currents

Closing out the season on Trent Radio, Abbigale, Evan, and Sebastian drag their exhausted bodies into the studio for one last kick at the can to reflect upon the season and how they're feeling after publishing the last print edition of 2023.

After Evan discusses the newest garbageface album, ENANTIODROMIA - set to be released on December 21st - key questions arise among the editors concerning the plans for future reproduction and what they would name their prospective spawn before suggesting that the roundabout to nowhere at Cleantech Commons is Peterborough's best new hook-up spot.

These three are never beating the polycule accusations.

If you're worried about not hearing from the editors for the next few weeks, have no fear! They're cooking up something good - and they need your help! Send in your festive greetings to be included in a special holiday-themed episode set to air later on in December.

Mailed cards get priority but email works too!

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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 12PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.trentradio.ca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.trentarthur.ca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Courier⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

It's a big news day in Peterborough—Nogojiwanong, and no, we're not talking about budget week. It is, of course, Spotify Wrapped week, and the ever-intrepid Arthur editors have undertaken the great endeavour of debriefing this most sacrosanct of cultural moments.

Not only that, but two-thirds of our trinity have taken it upon themselves to plomb the uncharted depths of a mysterious new network domain—the TCSA's mobile app.

Between that and a heated discussion about municipalities in Southeastern Ontario, the agenda is brimming with soundbites and—as ever—hijinks ensue.

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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 12PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.trentradio.ca⁠⁠⁠⁠

Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at ⁠[email protected]⁠. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.trentarthur.ca⁠⁠⁠⁠.

You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Courier⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Peterborough city councillors went through the municipality’s draft budget for 2024 page by page and line by line last week. Sitting as finance committee for three nights in a row starting on November 20, they were staring down a potential 9.59 percent increase to residential property taxes next year and were on the lookout for ways to reign in spending.

Arthur has teamed up with Peterborough Currents to cover the municipal budget deliberations in a limited-run podcast series. Episode three focuses on the November 20 to 22 finance committee meetings.

In particular, we focus on five stories that emerged during council’s budget deliberations. From a proposed funding cut for social assistance medical benefits, to an airport that loses millions every year, these are five budget items that provoked debate among councillors.

Links:

Arthur Newspaper

Peterborough Currents

Arthur's editorial team are back and bedraggled, having spent the weekend packin' the shack and the better part of the week paying far too close attention to Peterborough City Hall. However, the news waits for no mere man, and so long as the busses keep runnin' and the river don't rise, our editors will be here to heed their divinely-ordained compulsion to disseminate the news.

Now, back in the hot seat, they're here to debrief the weekend's transit negotiations and the narrowly avoided ATU Local 1320 strike.

In other news, Trent is getting a new college, amongst other things! The editors discuss Gidigaa Migizi college, Trent's varsity volleyball home-opener, and the perennial favourite, The Game of Life.

ALSO: Arthur's AGM is this week! Come if you can! It's a great way to engage with the paper (and get free food to boot). Fri. Nov. 24th at 5:00PM in the Sadleir House Lecture Hall.

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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 12PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at ⁠⁠⁠www.trentradio.ca⁠⁠⁠

Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at [email protected]. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at ⁠⁠⁠www.trentarthur.ca⁠⁠⁠.

You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter ⁠⁠⁠The Courier⁠⁠⁠.

Will Pearson, Evan Robins and Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay sit down to discuss the latest on the 2024 Peterborough City Budget news. Last week, representatives from a variety of community groups addressed city councillors on Tuesday, November 14 to ask councillors to reverse a proposed cut to the municipal grants they receive.

Peterborough’s draft budget proposes cutting the Community Service Grants it gives to 14 local non-profits by between 3.5 percent and 5.2 percent in 2024. The Community Service Grant program provides funding to non-profits that deliver programs to improve the quality of life for residents in Peterborough, according to the city’s budget documents.

Representatives from many of the groups facing the cutback — including the New Canadians Centre, Peterborough GreenUP, and Artspace — were present at the November 14 finance committee meeting to ask councillors to reverse the proposed cutback when they debate the budget starting on November 20.

If the grant cuts to the 14 non-profits are approved, the city would spend $29,132 less on all the groups combined next year compared to 2023. That works out to savings of $0.67 for the median household in the city.

Meanwhile, at the November 15 2023 finance committee meeting, Chief of Police Stuart Betts made the case for a 15.3 percent increase to the police budget for 2024 — that increase would cost the median residential taxpayer $106 more next year.

We cover these two stories and more in the latest episode of our 2024 Budget Podcast, which Arthur is producing in collaboration with Peterborough Currents.

Links:

Peterborough Currents' Site⁠

⁠Arthur Newspaper's Site

In this episode of Radio Free Arthur Abbigale, Sebastian, and Evan discuss their plans to help "pack the shack" for an upcoming series of home games for Trent's Varsity Volleyball Team.

Also on the docket is the question of who from Trent will show up to support the ATU 1320 as they head back into negotiations with a strike mandate set for November 20th.

All this before they dive into the not-yet-public "Excaliburnt Out Report" to see if there is anything revelatory or consequential contained within its 37 pages.

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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 12PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at ⁠⁠www.trentradio.ca⁠⁠

Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at [email protected]. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at ⁠⁠www.trentarthur.ca⁠⁠.

You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter ⁠⁠The Courier⁠⁠.

Arthur and Peterborough Currents have teamed up to cover Peterborough's budget deliberations in a podcast format. We’ll be releasing podcast episodes as city council’s budget deliberations progress.

In this first episode of the series Will Pearson, Brett Throop, and Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay discuss their initial reactions to the draft budget. They also check in with Harry Kitchen, a retired Trent University economics professor with an interest in municipal finance.

Kitchen argues that of all the taxes we pay in Canada, municipal property taxes offer the most bang for your buck. He says it’s the “lowest of all the taxes you pay, and you’re getting the most services for that tax.”

Links:

Peterborough Draft Budget

Budget Season Arrives in Peterborough as Council Faced with Potential 9.59% Tax Rate Increase

Peterborough Currents' Site

Arthur Newspaper's Site

With two weeks having passed since the editors last properly sat down together, there is so much to catch up on. From several new articles from Arthur journalists, a breakdown on the latest from Peterborough City Hall—including the new waste collection program—and the much awaited 2024 budget, there's much to talk about and only so much time to talk about it.

Tune in for Sebastian's piping-hot budget takes, Abbigale's appraisals of Arthur's new authors' work, and Evan's impromptu evisceration of that classic piece of capitalist realism, Love, Actually (2003).

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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 12PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at ⁠www.trentradio.ca⁠

Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at [email protected]. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at ⁠www.trentarthur.ca⁠.

You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter ⁠The Courier⁠.

With Sebastian off on a busman’s holiday to Québec, Co-editors, Abbigale Kernya and Evan Robins come to you live from a cabin in the woods where they give you a rundown on new articles from Arthur journalists and discuss an odd looking book found in said cabin. 

In other news, the two discuss University of Ottawa’s radio station, CHUO, who has recently had their $4 levy fee defunded in a controversial referendum brought forth by a singular UOttawa student. 

Tune in for a breakdown of inconsistencies of the referendum, student union inaction, levy solidarity, and the importance of speaking up against injustices on campus.

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Radio Free Arthur broadcasts live on Wednesdays @ 12PM through the facilities of Trent Radio - 92.7 CFFF FM in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong and online at www.trentradio.ca

Arthur Newspaper has been Trent University's Radical Independent Student and Community Press since 1966. You can reach the Editors at [email protected]. Keep up to date on local Peterborough news by regularly checking our website at www.trentarthur.ca.

You can also sign up for our weekly newsletter The Courier.