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By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 5, 2023 12:43 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size A First Nation chief and the mayor of a Prince Edward Island community are calling for a councillor to resign over a sign posted on his property denying the existence …
Read More »Prince Edward Island provincial election set for April, premier announces
P.E.I. Premier Dennis King announced Monday night that the province will go to the polls on April 3, just under four years after his Progressive Conservatives were elected. King told supporters at a nomination meeting in his riding north of Charlottetown that he had visited Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry earlier in …
Read More »Bell Aliant says 911 service restored after disruption in N.S., N.B., P.E.I.
Bell Aliant says 911 service is restored in the three Maritime provinces after it was disrupted earlier Tuesday morning. The telecommunications company said earlier that people in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. “may be experiencing issues” calling 911 from a landline. 9-1-1 service is now restored for Nova Scotia, …
Read More »About 2,900 homes and businesses on P.E.I. still without power 19 days after Fiona
Maritime Electric, P.E.I.’s main electrical utility, continued the hard slog of restoring mostly individual power outages on Tuesday, returning power to about 600 customers 19 days after Fiona knocked it out. Immediately following the post-tropical storm on Sept. 24 electricity was out for the whole province. With the work done …
Read More »Coasts need living shorelines to stave off erosion, says P.E.I. researcher
Researchers and watershed coordinators are working together to mitigate coastal erosion on P.E.I., using a set of powerful natural solutions to create what they call living shorelines. Living shorelines harness plants that naturally grow on P.E.I. to trap sand and topsoil and prevent the coast from eroding, says Erin Nelson, a climate …
Read More »Temporary foreign workers rescued from abusive situation on P.E.I. farm
CBC News has learned details of why nine temporary foreign workers were released from their obligations to a P.E.I. farm business, and has spoken directly with two of those workers. The federal government granted the employees open work permits to enable them to escape an abusive situation, a program that …
Read More »P.E.I. church criticized for post about webinar designed to ‘protect’ children during Pride Month
A member of a Summerside, P.E.I., church is speaking out against a social media post he calls “homophobic,” and looking for a new faith community. In the post, the Summerside Community Church directed its followers to a June 17 webinar offering “practical advice for parents and grandparents to protect children from …
Read More »P.E.I. offers more financial bonuses for new doctors
The Prince Edward Island government is now offering new doctors bigger bonuses and a shorter service commitment when they sign up to work in the province, in an effort to recruit more than two dozen doctors. Incentives are being offered for family physicians and some specialists who take jobs anywhere in P.E.I., whereas …
Read More »Ukrainian doctors find new life on P.E.I. as resident care workers
Trained as physicians in their country, a Ukrainian couple is now building a new life on P.E.I. as resident care workers at a long-term care home in Charlottetown. Olena Yevchenko, 29 and Yehor Polusmiak, 28, were on vacation in Africa when war broke out in Ukraine. Polusmiak’s parents moved to …
Read More »Splitting P.E.I. into two EI zones made for ‘crass political reasons,’ says former Liberal MP
The decision to split P.E.I. into two EI zones was made for “crass political reasons,” and workers and employers continue to pay the price, says a former Island MP. Wayne Easter was testifying at Senate hearing Thursday, part of the discussions on former P.E.I. Senator Diane Griffin’s bill to reverse the …
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