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This is fascinating for a whole host of reasons.

Good morning, The local children's aid society, facing budget pressures after years of reductions to its core provincial funding, has opted to defund a program that provides mental health services to kids who've experienced abuse. https://t.co/takld6XHLh

A program that provides mental health services to kids and teens in the child welfare system in Peterborough is facing closure, and advocates say its loss will put children at risk. https://t.co/bKJNf41JBV

Today, MPP Dave Smith announced provincial funding for the Peterborough Street Medicine team, which provides primary health care to people experiencing homelessness. https://t.co/tKzsMv06VZ

Here's your arts and community newsletter for this week! Featuring: 📚 Friends of @ptbolibrary book sale 🎻 Folk music at Sadleir House 🍳 @onecityptbo gets its commercial kitchen ➕ And more! https://t.co/iLZz7auCcl

If I could make one little change to the local media landscape, it would be for outlets to stop running these OLG marketing press releases about people winning the lottery. Or, at the very least, to run an equal amount of articles about people losing their savings to gambling.

🥁 🚲 🥁 🚲 🥁 It's time for my annual check-in on the Crawford Trail! To me, this is a no-brainer priority for improving transportation in Peterborough. Anyway, no surprises here, but it ain't in the 2025 budget. Fingers crossed for 2026!

Peterborough mayor wants to adjust tax ratio so residential property taxpayers get about $3 million in relief, but a local MPP wants to see city council control its spending first. https://t.co/Q2x6RyOniK

The city has released its draft budget for 2025. Staff made over $1 million in spending cuts to bring the tax increase down to 7.8 percent, the budget states. Among the cuts: Grants to local non-profits and health benefits for people on social assistance. https://t.co/X5g5a5xtDX

For years, the Khera family's restaurants and grocery stores have offered a taste of home to South Asian international students in Peterborough. Now, the family has opened a worship space so their customers have a place to pray, as well. https://t.co/ASxPTOWZLA

Premier Doug Ford said that his government "never cut" funding to @KHChildrensAid when asked about the agency's deficit on Tuesday. The agency's financial statements show decreasing annual funding from the province, plus some one-time boosts. Read: https://t.co/PiEJ9hwH5T

There was a lot of talk on social media about illegal salmon fishing on the Ganaraska River in Port Hope this fall. The province responded with a ban, but is it really in the best interest of the fish? https://t.co/s8rZZi7etR

We just sent our email newsletter to 7,828 local readers. It covered: 🥘 60 years of Meals on Wheels 💲 Doug Ford said the PCs have "poured money" into children's aid — is that true? ⚕️ Doctor recruitment update ➕ And more! Read it here:

Here's our chart showing the province's decreasing base funding to @KHChildrensAid, which has been supplemented by occasional one-time funding boosts. Story: https://t.co/WazGvSr0iV

Here's @fordnation responding to a question re: KHCAS this morning. "We poured money into children's aid society. We never cut it. We've increased it."

It was really nice to connect with other indie publishers this weekend. Grateful for the @pressforward_ca community.

Many more illuminating charts over on the website: https://t.co/WazGvSry8t

Minister Parsa said KHCAS has received $4.6 million "over and above" its annual allocation since 2020. That's true. Those boosts are represented as light blue in this chart. But the annual allocations themselves have been steadily decreasing.