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Tyson Bradley, CEO of the P.E.I. Energy Corporation, said the Hermanville wind farm, located just west of Souris, has had $15 million worth of repairs. There are 10 wind turbines in Hermanville. Dave Stewart • The Guardian

Repairs to P.E.I. wind farm cost $15 million in last several years

Most of the 10 wind turbines at the Hermanville wind farm are working again following $15 million in repairs during the past several months, says the CEO of the P.E.I. Energy Corporation. Tyson Bradley said additional money was spent on purchasing ...

Updated 6 hours ago |4 min read

No two-way traffic on Summerside's Water Street East again Monday, May 13

Updated 7 hours ago |1 min read

Parts of Queen Street and Richmond Street will be closed between Feb. 16-17 for Jack Frost Festival events. - Stock Image

P.E.I. authorities issue warning after squatters found in abandoned Stratford home

Updated 10 hours ago |3 min read

Stratford councilor, Jody Jackson said anyone with vacant properties should check on their property to ensure it is secured after four people were found squatting on an abandoned property in Stratford. Dave Stewart • The Guardian

P.E.I. releases new and updated tools relating to coastal and inland flooding

Updated 12 hours ago |2 min read

Confederation Landing chosen for downtown Charlottetown market location after council vote

Updated 12 hours ago |2 min read

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Changes to P.E.I.’s population strategy push permanent residency beyond reach for some foreign workers

Updated 9 hours ago |7 min read

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Protesters attend a rally outside Province House to demand the full implementation of the Coastal Protection Act on Wednesday, May 8, 2024.
Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

JOHN DeMONT: Let us protect a coastline that is a wonder of the world

I doubt that the placard-waving people gathered in front of the Nova Scotia legislature this week to protest the government’s unwillingness to decisively protect our coastline had numbers on their minds. But, even with my Grade 11 math, I can think ...

Updated 8 hours ago |6 min read

LETTER: Don’t rush into new CBRM central library project

Updated 9 hours ago |2 min read

The former Cape Breton County courthouse in Sydney, which CBRM council is considering as an option to house a new central library. GREG MCNEIL/CAPE BRETON POST FILE

LETTER: CBRM fire department budget likely to increase following dismissal of hazmat team

Updated 9 hours ago |3 min read

A truck used by the Cape Breton Fire and Emergency Services' hazardous materials response team. Four vehicles, two boats and more have been dedicated for Hazmat use. CONTRIBUTED/CAPE BRETON REGIONAL HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TEAM

ROSEMARY GODIN: Cape Breton Regional Municipality mayor praised for service and commitment

Updated 9 hours ago |6 min read

EDITORIAL: Canadians making impossible choices between health and food

Updated 11 hours ago |5 min read

LETTER: What's Poilievre's plan if he does axe the carbon tax?

Updated 13 hours ago |3 min read

Business

Ranjit Singh, who recently joined as a part-time Uride driver in Charlottetown, says the past two weeks have been busy for him, with people booking rides on the Uride app back-to-back. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

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Uride debuts in Charlottetown with free rides as demand for ride-hailing services is booming in P.E.I.

With the rise in ridesharing usage in P.E.I., people now have another option as a new ride-hailing service has recently started operating in the capital region. Uride, a ridesharing company that serves smaller communities across Canada, launched its ...

Updated 14 hours ago |6 min read

P.E.I. man sentenced for 54 Employment Insurance offences

Updated a day ago |3 min read

Kevin Davis, 34, of South Winsloe, pleaded guilty on April 29 in provincial court in Charlottetown to 54 charges of knowingly making false employment insurance (EI) reports about earnings that resulted in him receiving more than $41,000 in overpayments. File

Atlantic Business Magazine names 2024 Top 50 CEOs

Updated 7 hours ago |4 min read

Greg Roberts, CEO and owner of Mary Brown's, gave a keynote speech Wednesday at the St. John's Board of Trade's Business Bootcamp at the Delta Hotel. — Andrew Robinson/The Telegram

Halifax Stanfield Airport revenue bounces back big in 2023

Updated 9 hours ago |1 min read

THE WRAP: Bud the Spud, Bluenose wine stud and picking on Galen Weston

Updated 7 hours ago |4 min read

China's consumer prices rise for 3rd month, factory deflation persists

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Lifestyles

This painting of Dendromaia unamakiensis by Canadian artist Henry Sharpe is part of a display at the Cape Breton Fossil Centre in Sydney Mines. Discovered in Point Aconi, the 309-million-year-old fossilized remains of the lizard-like mammal ancestor is the earliest fossil evidence of parental care in existence. Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

The Tree Mother of Cape Breton: Fossil found in Point Aconi first evidence of maternal care

SYDNEY, N.S. — More than 300 million years before moms started kissing our boo-boos and reminding us to eat our veggies, a lizard-like creature in Cape Breton performed the first recorded act of motherly love. In 2017, a fossil enthusiast named Brian ...

Updated 5 hours ago |5 min read

THE BOOK SHELF: Cow Bay author chronicles his bike and surf adventure in new book

Updated 6 hours ago |7 min read

Author RC Shaw takes readers on an adventure in his book Captain Solitude: One Surfers Search for the World’s Greatest Sailor. Contributed

GET GROWING: Six pint-sized compact shrub options for the garden

Updated 6 hours ago |5 min read

There are many types of shrubs that stay very compact, even when mature.

MARK DeWOLF: Delect'ble spring culinary weekend

Updated 7 hours ago |4 min read

PHOTO: Mi'kmaw elder, residential school survivor receives honorary doctorate from Nova Scotia university

Updated 12 hours ago |1 min read

Sunset Series in Inverness returns for another summer of performances

Updated 15 hours ago |3 min read

Sports

Will Zafiris has been named the new head coach of the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers Knights’ major under-18 male hockey team. Will Zafiris • Special to The Guardian

P.E.I.'s Charlottetown Knights name new head coach

A familiar face behind benches in eastern P.E.I. is continuing to progress up the ranks to the New Brunswick/P.E.I. Major Under-18 Male Hockey League next season. Will Zafiris of Stratford has been named head coach of the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers ...

Updated 10 hours ago |4 min read

TOSH senior keeps promise to coach of returning to rugby pitch after suffering serious injury

Updated 16 hours ago |6 min read

Carter Lawless is back on the rugby pitch with the Three Oaks Axemen senior AAA boys’ team this season. Lawless, a Grade 12 student, had a serious non-rugby-related injury close to a year ago. - Joel Arsenault/Special to SaltWire

HARNESS RACING: Tobins Brownie wins feature race in sloppy conditions

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Trainer-driver Mike McGuigan and Islebetu Islebeatu lead the field around the turn for the homestretch in the opening race of a 10-dash harness racing card at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. Islebetu Islebeatu, a three-year-old bay filly, won the race over a sloppy track in 2:03.1. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

Raising autism acceptance: NBA coach from P.E.I. and his wife form To The Max Foundation in honour of their son

Updated May. 8, 2024 |10 min read

MacDougall right back to work at UNB after returning home from coaching Canada to world U18 championship

Updated May. 8, 2024 |6 min read

P.E.I.'s Scott Morrison enjoys first season as Utah Jazz assistant coach

Updated a day ago |2 min read

Canada

Lawyers representing the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John's and survivors of abuse at Mount Cashel prepare to leave Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court after proceedings Tuesday, May 30, 2023. TARA BRADBURY • THE TELEGRAM

Lawyers concerned over delay as insurance company wants ‘11th hour, 59th minute’ involvement in St. John’s archdiocese abuse claim process

A court hearing over the compensation claims of survivors of abuse by members of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John’s (RCECSJ) took an unexpected turn Friday, May 10, with the late participation of an insurance company that says it wasn’t ...

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Seven people charged after gunpoint kidnapping and assault in Tobique First Nation, N.B.

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Plea set on drug and weapon offences; Cape Breton court report for May 10, 2024

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Col. Robert Kearney faces five counts of Conduct Prejudice to the Good Order and Discipline.

CBRM mayor, province's Justice Department spar over policing responsibilities

Updated 5 hours ago |9 min read

The Tree Mother of Cape Breton: Fossil found in Point Aconi first evidence of maternal care

Updated 5 hours ago |5 min read

Patrons help save man: Emergency preparedness of Cape Breton restaurant staff questioned

Updated 6 hours ago |7 min read

World

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm listens to questions from the audience during the PR100 event in Orocovis, Puerto Rico, March 28, 2023.

US energy secretary to visit Saudi Arabia, UAE next week, officials say

(Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will visit Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates next week to work on "climate co-operation" and other issues, two Biden administration officials told Reuters on Friday. The visit will run ...

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Ukraine ground force commander expects Russian push ahead of arms supplies

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Firefighters work at a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine May 10, 2024.

US working to keep Israel, Hamas engaged in Gaza truce efforts

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A Palestinian man travels in a vehicle as he flees Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip May 9, 2024.

Russian attack forces frustrated, hungry residents from Ukraine border town

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Donald Trump's son Barron will not represent Florida at Republican convention

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Biden jokes Trump should have injected himself with bleach

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Repairs to P.E.I. wind farm cost $15 million in last several years

Changes to P.E.I.’s population strategy push permanent residency beyond reach for some foreign workers

P.E.I. authorities issue warning after squatters found in abandoned Stratford home

Uride debuts in Charlottetown with free rides as demand for ride-hailing services is booming in P.E.I.

Confederation Landing chosen for downtown Charlottetown market location after council vote

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Repairs to P.E.I. wind farm cost $15 million in last several years

No two-way traffic on Summerside's Water Street East again Monday, May 13

P.E.I. authorities issue warning after squatters found in abandoned Stratford home

P.E.I. releases new and updated tools relating to coastal and inland flooding

Confederation Landing chosen for downtown Charlottetown market location after council vote

Changes to P.E.I.’s population strategy push permanent residency beyond reach for some foreign workers

Opinion

JOHN DeMONT: Let us protect a coastline that is a wonder of the world

LETTER: Don’t rush into new CBRM central library project

LETTER: CBRM fire department budget likely to increase following dismissal of hazmat team

ROSEMARY GODIN: Cape Breton Regional Municipality mayor praised for service and commitment

EDITORIAL: Canadians making impossible choices between health and food

LETTER: What's Poilievre's plan if he does axe the carbon tax?

Business

Uride debuts in Charlottetown with free rides as demand for ride-hailing services is booming in P.E.I.

P.E.I. man sentenced for 54 Employment Insurance offences

Atlantic Business Magazine names 2024 Top 50 CEOs

Halifax Stanfield Airport revenue bounces back big in 2023

THE WRAP: Bud the Spud, Bluenose wine stud and picking on Galen Weston

China's consumer prices rise for 3rd month, factory deflation persists

Lifestyles

The Tree Mother of Cape Breton: Fossil found in Point Aconi first evidence of maternal care

THE BOOK SHELF: Cow Bay author chronicles his bike and surf adventure in new book

GET GROWING: Six pint-sized compact shrub options for the garden

MARK DeWOLF: Delect'ble spring culinary weekend

PHOTO: Mi'kmaw elder, residential school survivor receives honorary doctorate from Nova Scotia university

Sunset Series in Inverness returns for another summer of performances

Sports

P.E.I.'s Charlottetown Knights name new head coach

TOSH senior keeps promise to coach of returning to rugby pitch after suffering serious injury

HARNESS RACING: Tobins Brownie wins feature race in sloppy conditions

Raising autism acceptance: NBA coach from P.E.I. and his wife form To The Max Foundation in honour of their son

MacDougall right back to work at UNB after returning home from coaching Canada to world U18 championship

P.E.I.'s Scott Morrison enjoys first season as Utah Jazz assistant coach

Canada

Lawyers concerned over delay as insurance company wants ‘11th hour, 59th minute’ involvement in St. John’s archdiocese abuse claim process

Seven people charged after gunpoint kidnapping and assault in Tobique First Nation, N.B.

Plea set on drug and weapon offences; Cape Breton court report for May 10, 2024

CBRM mayor, province's Justice Department spar over policing responsibilities

The Tree Mother of Cape Breton: Fossil found in Point Aconi first evidence of maternal care

Patrons help save man: Emergency preparedness of Cape Breton restaurant staff questioned

World

US energy secretary to visit Saudi Arabia, UAE next week, officials say

Ukraine ground force commander expects Russian push ahead of arms supplies

US working to keep Israel, Hamas engaged in Gaza truce efforts

Russian attack forces frustrated, hungry residents from Ukraine border town

Donald Trump's son Barron will not represent Florida at Republican convention

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