Pints & Politics

4 Peterborough poets explore how to gauge the readiness of an audience to fully hear & understand their work.

4 Peterborough poets explore how to gauge the readiness of an audience to fully hear & understand their work.

Listen to Peterborough's Deputy Chief of Police, our Medical Officer of Health and a city councilor along with two residents with lived experience of opioids discuss the extent of Peterborough's opioid crisis and what can be done to help those who wish to get off these potentially lethal drugs.

Listen to Peterborough's Deputy Chief of Police, our Medical Officer of Health and a city councilor along with two residents with lived experience of opioids discuss the extent of Peterborough's opioid crisis and what can be done to help those who wish to get off these potentially lethal drugs. Listen to Part 1 before listening to Part 2 in order to get the full context of this discussion.

Sylvia Sutherland, Lauren Hunter, Sean Conway, Donald Fraser & Tim Etherington weigh in on recent events affecting all of us in Peterborough. The panel starts with an examination of potential planning problems in East City, then assesses the first year of the Ford government and ends with troubling conclusions about the level of public discourse in our federal election campaign (so far).

Our guest panel discusses the survival of the CBC and other Canadian media as an issue in the current federal election campaign.

Will the climate crisis & other environmental issues come up as campaign issues in the run-up to Canada's federal election on October 21st? Or will our politicians continue to ignore these issues or minimize their importance? Our panel of naturalists, activists and political candidates is not optimistic.

Two union presidents from CUPE locals - Laurie Hatton & Amanda Marche -- & City Councillor Stephen Wright look at the impact of the Ontario Government's cutbacks & restructuring of public health services in Peterborough & across Ontario

Three student activists --Zach Hatton, Brett Porter & Brianne Menchion discuss the state of politics on campus and make their predictions about the looming federal election.

Our politics panel looks at urgent issues on the municipal, provincial and federal levels.