By the age of four, transgender youth Marissa Taylor was already having suicidal thoughts. ‘I want to die so I can go to heaven and talk to God. I […]
Local Group Participates in Walk to Save Indigenous Sacred Site From Condos, Office Towers and Pavement By Melodie McCullough Algonquin Grandmothers and Elders of the Ottawa River region, and […]
By Melodie McCullough So far Canada’s federal government has spent $762,827.48 and 30 years trying to make Lynn Gehl disappear. It hasn’t worked Gehl wants First Nation Indian status, and, although she lost a […]
By Melodie McCullough This article was updated August, 2017 “I’m sorry, but you’re just not a good fit.” Stacey Love-Jolicoeur does not like those words. In fact, she hates them. […]
The school principal finds the tiny Grade 2 boy hunched over in the hallway, sent out from his classroom because he’s been disruptive and rude to his teacher. His face […]
By Melodie McCullough There’s a small wooden box on a shelf in Rosemary Ganley’s Peterborough apartment. Each day, she opens it and adds to it — scraps of paper on which […]
By Melodie McCullough One day after being bailed out of jail by her boyfriend in Montreal, Lillian, age 20, landed in Peterborough on a 2 a.m. Sunday Greyhound bus. Dressed […]
Ariel O’Neill, Women and HIV/AIDS Community Animator with PARN (Community AIDS Resource Network ), works with community agencies to enhance their capacity to address HIV/AIDS and to build safe environments that support women and their HIV/AIDS-related needs. While she says there are fewer than a dozen female clients of PARN “that […]
Ivity, Dot and Shoo-Ella are three Peterborough gals who like to spend their days helping out around the Peterpatch — maybe talking about sex with teens, or popping into a […]
