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Radio Free Arthur S2E12: Two-and-a-Budget Days Later

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Attention listeners of Radio Free Arthur: we, the editors of Arthur, are proud to announce that we have single-handedly solved the 2025 Draft Budget.

Radio Free Arthur S2E11: Misinformation? I Hardly Know Her!

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Abbigale Kernya

Evan Robins

Breaking news out of The Borough this week: Hundreds of protestors showed up at City Hall to contest the 2025 Draft Budget, which could see funding to arts and social services cut to accommodate council's will of a strict 5% tax increase.

Currents x Arthur -Budget Week 2024

Currents x Arthur - Budget Week 2024 Episode Five - 2024 Budget Debrief; or, The Road to 7%

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Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay

Abbigale Kernya

Will Pearson

The City of Peterborough has a Budget! Council adopted the 2024 City Budget during a meeting on December 11th which includes a property tax rate increase of 7% - down from 9.59% in the original draft budget proposed by City Staff.

Currents x Arthur - Budget Week 2024 Episode Four - Why don’t these pedestrians have a sidewalk? Peterborough faces infrastructure backlog due to “funding challenges.”

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Will Pearson

Brett Throop

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?

Peterborough Politics Podcast

Peterborough Politics Podcast Episode 11: Dave "Stigma Male" Smith

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Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay

Danny Taro

Episode 11! We talked about the STIGMA that seeps from the pores of Conservative MPP Dave Smith as well as Police spending $185,505 (plus annual operations costs) to install 12 CCTV cameras in Peterborough's downtown, plus much more!

Peterborough Politics Podcast Episode 10: Nahloxone

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Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay

Danny Taro

Episode 10! Our big topic this week was Peterborough City Council voted down the move to have city staff undergo life-saving Naloxone training. We also expressed general frustrations with the lack of vision and direction for the city.

Growing Pains

Growing Pains Episode 3: A Culture You Can't Kill Part 2

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Brazil Gaffney-Knox

Nicky Taylor

After a hiatus, Growing Pains has returned to bring you two episodes all about student activism at Trent. In Part 1 & 2 we map out Trent’s radical, activist roots and take stock of the changes that have taken place over the past 20 years.

Growing Pains Episode 3: A Culture You Can't Kill Part 1

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Brazil Gaffney-Knox

Nicky Taylor

Bread: Culture Politics and Practice

Bread: Culture Politics and Practice Episode 1: What's Going On?

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Nicole Burton

For various reasons—social isolation, quarantining, fear of food shortages, boredom, social media—the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a dramatic increase in sourdough breadmaking. While this is something to be celebrated, the phenomena also calls for closer scrutiny.

Black Girls Chatter

Black Girls Chatter Episode 11: Covid Carding

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Shaela McLeod

Alicia McLeod

In this episode Shaela and Alicia dive into the history of carding in Canada, and how Doug Fords latest announcement on April 16th affects the BIPOC community.

Black Girls Chatter Episode 10: Natural Hair Movement

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Shaela McLeod

Alicia McLeod

Alicia and Shae share their stories transitioning to natural hair. They cover the different hair types and the history of the natural hair movement.

What's the Point? w/ Arthur Newspaper

What's the Point?Episode 12: TCSA Elections

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Nicky Taylor

Brazil Gaffney-Knox

This week on What's the Point?! interview this years candidates running in the TCSA Spring Elections! We start with a quick primer on what the TCSA is and what has been up in the past few years. Listen in to get the tea on how to vote in this year's elections.

What's the Point?Episode 11: Category is... PRIYANKA

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Nicky Taylor

Brazil Gaffney-Knox

This week on What's the Point?! we switch things up and give you an episode that is nothing but FUN! Nick gets candid with the inaugural Champion of Canada's Drag Race, PRIYANKA! They talk about everything from Priyanka's origin story and the Toronto drag scene, to her best and worst moments on Drag Race and what winning meant to her.

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