Sara Whitehead

I am ever so grateful for real live humans covering local news, and especially covering Council! Thank you @joellekovach.bsky.social @arthurnews.bsky.social

Kyle Clark, welcome once again to The War on Cars. @kylec.bsky.social

Peterborough City Council is absolutely responsible for the library cuts. And has the power to fix this mess.

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

Beautiful! Still waiting here in #ptbo for anything in the Bethune St planter boxes, and for the Charlotte St better-than-nothing seasonal plastic bollards.

Truly wild analogy. Are they perhaps referring to the fact that cars have been infesting our cities for just about a hundred years?

How to end the free ride of street parkers Car owners should pay full freight for their use of city streets, or cede the space to public transit

This applies to every city; parking should not be free: "Sometimes weighing the greater public good isn’t complicated. Removing subsidized street parking to speed up the trip for tens of thousands of bus riders is so self-evidently logical it shouldn’t require debate."

a mangled Caution Flexpost with tire tracks behind it in a bike lane

wear bright clothing so drivers can see you.

Fantastic work! 🎉

Sign the Petition Stop the Cuts at Peterborough Public Library!

At City Council's direction, Peterborough's Public Library is set to restructure, laying off three librarians & eliminating the Children's Librarian role entirely. All to shave $120,000 off a budget of $411 million.
Petition here -- please sign and share:

www.change.org/save-ptbo-li...

Call your councillors #ptbo

“And the Northern Star — that one’s ours”

Former CDC Director Tom Frieden: Cuts to the agency will cost American lives and dollars The Office on Smoking and Health, the Environmental Health Laboratory, CDC Communications offices — the gutting of these teams will make America sicker, writes former CDC Director Tom Frieden.

These cuts are a recipe for more illness, higher healthcare costs, and less information for people to make decisions about their own health.

They're a recipe for disaster.

Cuts to CDC’s global work will cost lives, damage America’s reputation, and weaken our economy.

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First reverse rainbow, teamwork with @perspicuity.bsky.social

I am so grateful for @ptbocurrents.bsky.social helping to address this urgent need for local news and accountability in my community. Please support them as a monthly subscriber if you have the means.

“Tuberculosis is a form and expression of injustice.”

Transportation Professionals Saw Elon Musk’s Lies and Disdain for the Public Firsthand. We can't sit on the sidelines now.

When did Elon lose your respect? It depends on when he first showed up in YOUR field and claimed to know all about it. For social media people, that was 2022. For cave rescuers, 2018. And for transport professionals, around 2017. Fine @shigashide.bsky.social piece.

blog.ucs.org/steven-higas...

White text on black: WE ASK EVERYONE OUTSIDE OF THE CAR TO BE SAFE SO THAT DRIVERS CAN BE DANGEROUS THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF OUR APPROACH TO ROAD SAFETY ROVÉLO CREATIVE

The Ask stickers are coming to the shop next week.

You can mix/match these with the Auto Freedom stickers in the order. Will be here when available www.creativebyrovelo.com/shop

Disappointing to see such outdated messaging in this campaign — once again, everyone outside of cars asked to wear reflective clothing etc with minimal focus on drivers and none on street design

How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious - Gift link - 🎁

"President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements."

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

No amount of reflective yellow vests can protect pedestrians from unsafe infrastructure and unsafe drivers. So weary of this messaging

Yes — and many more like Fortaleza, Campinas, Recife, Guayaquil, Cali. We have so much to learn and we don’t have to always look to Europe for great examples

Cross-town by ski for a lovely dinner/trip report with the roads and trails (almost) to ourselves

This is always the case

The AP provides a model of effective press resistance Credibility is more important than access.

sick burn:
"But as ABC, Meta, the LA Times, the Washington Post, and Google demonstrate, you lose 100 percent of the fights you preemptively and despicably surrender"
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gulf...

men given feedback suggesting they were feminine expressed more support for war, homophobic attitudes, and interest in purchasing an SUV

The SUV one is sending me
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

That’s my question too — how are other communities handling this?

Support Us - Peterborough Currents A message from publisher-editor Will Pearson It’s no secret that it’s harder than ever to operate a journalism business these days. Sometimes, when our cash flows get tight, I wonder if it’s worth the...

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Such a great tool! Looking forward to trying it out