City Matters
PART SIX: Nearly $100 million for roads. What value is Kawartha Lakes getting?
The Kawartha Lakes Scorecard
Latest
The most recent stories from Lindsay and the City of Kawartha Lakes.
City Matters
PART TWO: Fire protection is too important - and too expensive - to measure vaguely
The Kawartha Lakes Scorecard
Arts + Culture
Kawartha Lakes non-profits struggle to stay afloat amid funding challenges
The Giving Issue: October 2026
City Matters
After dark, at 68 Lindsay Street North
The city filled 68 Lindsay Street North with those most likely to die without housing, then confirmed in its own reports that they need care around the clock. It has never given that care a budget line we can find. Now, rather than fund the care, it is quietly changing the building. Those asking to be your mayor owe you an answer.
City Matters
Getting to work: Transportation and low wages stall Kawartha Lakes’ economy
Analyzing 11 major indicators of community wellbeing through Vital Signs
City Matters
The Kawartha Lakes Scorecard
A four-part election-year test of what municipal government costs - and what taxpayers get
City Matters
PART ONE: Before taxes rise further, show taxpayers what municipal spending delivers
The Kawartha Lakes Scorecard
Lifestyle
The midlife reboot
For a growing number of people in their 40s, 50s and early 60s, middle age is not a slow fade, but rather a time of transformation. Work, health, family and identity are undergoing transformations, with the best chapters still to be written.
People & Places
Reflections on Leisure with Lisa Trefzger
Part of our Voices of Kawartha Lakes Series
City Matters
The choice behind the choice: How voters navigate a five-way mayoral race
Five names will appear under mayor. The ballot records only one choice, but it cannot show all the decisions voters make before getting there.
People & Places
Reflections on Mental Health with Laurie Dillon-Schalk
Part of our Voices of Kawartha Lakes Series
Columnists
Building a sense of belonging in a new place
Home Reimagined is a monthly column that explores the experiences, lessons, and discoveries that come after settling in Canada.
City Matters
Local income gaps reveal a complex economic picture
Vital Signs report examines income and poverty in Kawartha Lakes
Lifestyle
100 stories from 100 issues
A trip down memory lane with a single story snapshot from every magazine we've published in the past 100 issues.
Business
SmartCentres identifies Lindsay as key location in its national Retail Development program
Walmart and Home Depot at the centre of Highway 35 growth
City Matters
Food insecurity on the rise in Kawartha Lakes, despite best efforts of community groups
Analyzing 11 major indicators of community wellbeing through Vital Signs
Voices of Kawartha Lakes
Reflections on Retirement with Ken Louie
Part of our Voices of Kawartha Lakes Series
Voices of Kawartha Lakes
Reflections on Community with Robyn James
Part of the Voices of Kawartha Lakes Series
Voices of Kawartha Lakes
Reflections on Community from Melissa Alfred
Part of our Voices of Kawartha Lakes Series
People & Places
Solutions from Finland on chronic homelessness
Part of our Solutions from the World Series