Joelle Kovach
City Hall and Politics Reporter at The Peterborough Examiner
City Hall and politics reporter for @PtboExaminer. Reader, mom of boys, francophone. Sober.
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2 days ago |
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joelle Kovach
City council may soon ask the Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (PACAC) to rank its list of 53 properties that it recommended for potential heritage designation. Coun. Joy Lachica made the motion at a general committee meeting on Monday night. It carried, but now needs a final ratification vote at a forthcoming city council meeting.
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2 days ago |
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joelle Kovach
Peterborough city council is interested in waiving municipal development fees between $80,000 and $100,000 per new affordable rental home. The move comes as part of an update of the city’s affordable housing community improvement plan. Other updates include making the plan applicable to the entire city, rather than select areas.
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3 days ago |
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joelle Kovach
If any American physicians are thinking of leaving the United States to move to Canada, Peterborough city councillors want to welcome them to live and practice here. At a general committee meeting on Monday night, councillors voted to have city staff investigate the current surge of American doctors looking to relocate to Canada, (that’s been occurring amid health care funding cuts and mass layoffs of health care workers in the U.S., the Toronto Star has reported).
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3 days ago |
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joelle Kovach
City council is interested in setting up four new roadside cameras to catch speeders zipping through school safety zones, in Peterborough. The proposal from city staff carried unanimously at a general committee meeting on Monday night (meaning it got preliminary approval; a ratification vote is expected at the next city council meeting, May 20).
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5 days ago |
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Joelle Kovach
A free after-school music instruction and social program in downtown Peterborough is thriving, three years after it was founded. The Upbeat! program allows kids aged seven to 14 to learn cello, violin or viola for free. Vice-chair and community engagement director Joy Simmonds said the idea is to foster a sense of belonging for all: “It’s a music program, but it’s a social program first.”Children come from Queen Mary and Prince of Wales public schools.
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