Since their Instagram soft-launch in early July, Peterborough "slut punks" My Fair Lady have consistently posted glitzy, attention-grabbing, and provocative graphics depicting their various members in fishnets, glam makeup, and high heels. Now, Evan Robins sits down with the band's architect, Liam Parker, to talk about the group's conception and the relevance of punk to Peterborough's queer community.

Peterborough Action for Tiny Homes (PATH) board member, Marion Burton, spoke out in an interview with Arthur following the results of the August 26th General Committee meeting where councillors voted down PATH’S temporary zoning application that would allow them to build 24 sleeping cabins at 385 Lansdowne Street East for up to three years. 

During the August 12th City Council meeting, Councillor and co-chair of Housing and Homelessness Keith Riel proposed a deferral of several pre-committed projects to allocate money for affordable housing in the upcoming budget which caused a divide among council.

Councillors returned from a month-long break on the evening of August 6th to convene for General Committee. On the agenda was the 2025 Draft Budget Impact Survey—a guideline brought forward by staff detailing different estimates of the upcoming budget impacts. This survey comes after the June 11th and 27th meetings, where staff presented budget information from each department, which council voted to revisit in August.

On Wednesday, July 17th, CUPE Ontario kicked off a series of Province-wide days of action for the "Support Our Care" petition, which aims to combat the Progressive Conservative government's increases privatization of Ontario's healthcare. Co-Editor Evan Robins spoke to members of the Healthcare Workers Co-ordinating Committee about the campaign and the current state of healthcare in the province.

On the evening of July 10th, Trent University English literature professor, Aaron Kreuter, presented the Peterborough launch of his newly-released short story collection, Rubble Children.