For over five years, Peterborough Currents has delivered in-depth and community-centred journalism on the internet. Now we’re putting ink to paper. This spring, we’re celebrating our fifth birthday by releasing our first-ever print magazine. The Peterborough Currents Magazine is now available for free (or pay-what-you-can) at various local businesses, including Take Cover Books (59 Hunter St E), The Food Shop (374 Water St), and Dreams of Beans Café (141 Charlotte St). The magazine features the same insightful reporting and empathetic storytelling that Currents publishes on its website. But the new print format encourages a slower and more reflective reading experience free from the distracting clutter of the internet. The magazine’s cover story dives deep into a pressing issue that is too often overlooked in Peterborough and Ontario: the housing challenges faced by people with developmental disabilities. “Ontario’s supportive housing waitlist is longer than ever, putting highly vulnerable people in increasingly desperate situations,” Currents reporter Brett Throop writes in the feature article. But Throop’s story doesn’t just focus on problems. He also examines solutions. He visits a home in Peterborough’s west end where four women with developmental disabilities have lived stably and safely for over a decade. And he follows a group of local families as they found their own non-profit and fundraise to build a duplex for their daughters with disabilities.