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Dozens of people gathered in an auditorium at Colonel Grey High School on April 24 to listen and to discuss the risks associated with the privatization of health care in P.E.I. Vivian Ulinwa • SaltWire

P.E.I. Health Coalition raises concerns over privatization threats to public health care

Concerns about the province’s public health-care system moving towards the private sector have members of the P.E.I. Health Coalition worried. A public meeting was held April 23 at Colonel Gray High School in Charlottetown to discuss the risks ...

Updated 8 hours ago |6 min read

Cleantech data collection underway in Georgetown, P.E.I.

Updated 15 hours ago |2 min read

Kuljeet Grewal is the leader of the Georgetown Living Labs project. Caitlin Coombes • Local Journalism Initiative reporter

More security needed in Charlottetown parks, councillors say, as city hires summer guards

Updated 17 hours ago |6 min read

Joseph A. Ghiz Memorial Park is near the new outreach centre location in Charlottetown. - Logan MacLean

Transitional housing opens in Summerside with vulnerable mothers with new children

Updated 17 hours ago |7 min read

Violence on the rise in P.E.I. schools, says teachers' federation

Updated 14 hours ago |5 min read

P.E.I.'s spring sitting of the legislature has closed. Here are three takeaways

Updated 17 hours ago |7 min read

Opinion

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $13.3 million in agreements with the CBRM and Membertou by way of the Housing Accelerator Fund. From left, Sydney-Victoria MP Jaime Battiste, Membertou Chief Terry Paul, Trudeau, CBRM Mayor Amanda MacDougall-Merrill and Cape Breton Canso MP Mike Kelloway. Mitchell Ferguson/Cape Breton Post

AMANDA MCDOUGALL-MERRILL: Homelessness in CBRM reason for concern

“Safe, sustainable, and affordable housing is a basic human need and a requirement for good mental health. When housing is inadequate or unavailable, personal as well as community well-being suffers.” This is the first paragraph of a council ...

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Rick Mercer: Rants, Writings, and Road Trips

Updated 8 hours ago |1 min read

Rick Mercer

Courtesy Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism and Credit photographer Kara O'Keefe.

PAM FRAMPTON: Anxiety — the stuff that dreams are made of

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Anxiety dreams can plague your sleep, making you wake up more exhausted than when you went to bed. — Kahfiara Krisna/Unsplash photo

ANDY WALKER: Working towards a screen time balance

Updated 13 hours ago |3 min read

LETTER: CBRM and Halifax average assessment values re-visited

Updated 13 hours ago |2 min read

LETTER: CBRM’s financial pain hitting home

Updated 13 hours ago |2 min read

Business

Members of the Progressive Conservative front bench listen as Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry closes out the spring sitting of the P.E.I. legislature. – Stu Neatby

P.E.I.'s spring sitting of the legislature has closed. Here are three takeaways

The 27 members of P.E.I.’s legislature headed back to their districts for the summer after a 31-day sitting closed on April 23. The spring sitting saw the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Dennis King pass another record-high budget, ...

Updated 17 hours ago |7 min read

Roll Up to Win confusion: Cape Bretoners disappointed after Tim Hortons email mistake

Updated 7 hours ago |6 min read

In this Saltwire file photo, a person rolls up the rim of their Tim Hortons cup to see if they are a winner or not, which was how the contest was run until 2021 when they decided to make it a digital-only game. SALTWIRE FILE

Time to double the quota? Owner of only N.L. fish plant to process exclusively northern cod thinks stocks are ready and is working to regain its position in global marketplace

Updated 15 hours ago |7 min read

A cod is tagged earlier in 2024 as part of the Northern Cod Fishery Improvement Project in Newfoundland and Labrador, a collaborative effort by industry partners to improve the science of understanding the stock and to elevate its place in the global market. Contributed/Atlantic Groundfish Council

Leon's furniture store completes relocation from Charlottetown to Summerside

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CBRM seeks land-use bylaw change for supportive housing units

Updated 19 hours ago |5 min read

Toyota to delay EV production launch in US to 2026, Mid Japan Economist reports

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Lifestyles

a baseball player hitting a ball The Nova Scotia Major Little League Provincial Championship will continue this weekend at Cameron Bowl in Glace Bay. The host Glace Bay McDonald’s Colonels enter the weekend undefeated. STOCK IMAGE.

Baseball NL wants more players and communities to 'Step Up to the Plate'

Baseball NL is ramping up efforts to grow interest across the province through a new initiative offering information and resources to encourage more play. ‘Step Up to the Plate’ offers several useful resources including registration information, ...

Updated 11 hours ago |2 min read

Scary, exciting times: Some first-time buyers perservering despite frustrating market challenges

Updated 12 hours ago |5 min read

House prices have risen 6 per cent year-to-year in the Halifax market and likely across the Atlantic region. FILE

Curious, not furious: How to manage a child's big emotions

Updated 12 hours ago |5 min read

Parent from a place of peace - not chaos. Don’t expect children to do things they are not ready to do yet.

P.E.I. lighthouse finalist in Canadian historical place restoration competition

Updated 14 hours ago |6 min read

ERIN SULLEY: Never underestimate the power of a slow cooker in the kitchen – check it out by making this slow cooker apple pork

Updated 14 hours ago |6 min read

One for the ages: Cape Breton comic proud to be a geriatric millennial

Updated 15 hours ago |7 min read

Sports

Duane Richards of Charlottetown has performed several duties with the Kensington Monaghan Farms Wild major under-18 hockey team over the last 10 years. Richards has served as general manager the last three seasons. The Wild is representing Atlantic Canada at this week’s Telus Cup Canadian under-18 hockey championship in Membertou, N.S. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

TELUS CUP: GM Duane Richards the heartbeat of P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild

Duane Richards has done just about everything for the Kensington Monaghan Farms Wild but drive the team bus. The Charlottetown resident joined the Wild as an assistant coach under Kyle Dunn for the 2014-15 season. Richards remained in that role for ...

Updated 11 hours ago |7 min read

P.E.I.'s Kensington Vipers win opener at Don Johnson Memorial Cup in dramatic fashion

Updated 10 hours ago |3 min read

Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers forward Brett Ballum, 20, skates up the ice at Eastlink Centre in Charlottetown during the P.E.I. junior B hockey championship series against the Sherwood-Parkdale A&SScrap Metal Metros. Ballum scored the winning goal in the Vipers’ 4-3 win over the Kent Koyotes at the Don Johnson Memorial Cup Atlantic Canada junior B hockey championship on April 24. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

MHL PLAYOFFS: Caps’ Duquette suspended indefinitely

Updated 12 hours ago |2 min read

P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild drops decision to Calgary at Telus Cup

Updated 13 hours ago |2 min read

P.E.I.'s Kensington Vipers making 15th appearance at Don Johnson Memorial Cup

Updated a day ago |6 min read

MHL PLAYOFFS: Timberwolves tie series; Caps facing another suspension

Updated a day ago |5 min read

Canada

Pallet shelters are being set up outside Beacon House in Lower Sackville on Tuesday, February 6, 2024.

Pallet shelter plan: A year late and 90 per cent short

Twenty tiny shelters are on the way to Kentville. In a couple of weeks, they’ll be up and ready for people to move in, according to Suzanne Ley, executive director of employment supports and income assistance at the Department of Community Services.

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Hutton says tent city protesters impeding help ‘to keep the protest going’

Updated 4 hours ago |4 min read

Housing Minister Fred Hutton speaks with reporters after question period on Wednesday. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

'Flying planes by french fries': Come by Chance refinery fully operational; 50 years in the community

Updated 4 hours ago |5 min read

Favoured fuel

Todd O’Malley, Braya Renewable Fuels chief executive officer, speaks to reporters during the facility's 50th-anniversary event at the Come By Chance refinery Wednesday afternoon. See story on page A3. Keith Gosse • The Telegram

Roll Up to Win confusion: Cape Bretoners disappointed after Tim Hortons email mistake

Updated 7 hours ago |6 min read

Mallard Cottage and BDC make first court appearance

Updated 8 hours ago |3 min read

Bonavista police investigating break-in, theft at Anglican Christ Church

Updated 8 hours ago |1 min read

World

A Chinese flag flutters outside the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) building on the Financial Street in Beijing, China February 8, 2024.

China stands by economic data, says defence spending 'transparent'

By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended the veracity of its economic numbers and asserted its military spending was "transparent and reasonable", while dismissing as "typical double standards" comments made this week by the head of the U.S.

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US births retreat after pandemic-era growth

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The entrance to the labor and delivery wing is shown at the newly constructed Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center hospital in San Diego, California, U.S., April 17, 2017.

China should have confidence to talk to us, Taiwan's president-elect says

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Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te, of Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP), holds a press conference, following the victory in the presidential elections, in Taipei, Taiwan January 13, 2024.

Clinical lab operator Labcorp to buy bankrupt genetic test maker Invitae for $239 million

Updated 2 hours ago |1 min read

Australian police charge five teenagers in Sydney cleric's stabbing

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Thousands mark Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand

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P.E.I. Health Coalition raises concerns over privatization threats to public health care

MHL PLAYOFFS: Caps’ Duquette suspended indefinitely

Violence on the rise in P.E.I. schools, says teachers' federation

P.E.I.'s spring sitting of the legislature has closed. Here are three takeaways

P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild drops decision to Calgary at Telus Cup

P.E.I. lighthouse finalist in Canadian historical place restoration competition

Local

P.E.I. Health Coalition raises concerns over privatization threats to public health care

Cleantech data collection underway in Georgetown, P.E.I.

More security needed in Charlottetown parks, councillors say, as city hires summer guards

Transitional housing opens in Summerside with vulnerable mothers with new children

Violence on the rise in P.E.I. schools, says teachers' federation

P.E.I.'s spring sitting of the legislature has closed. Here are three takeaways

Opinion

AMANDA MCDOUGALL-MERRILL: Homelessness in CBRM reason for concern

Rick Mercer: Rants, Writings, and Road Trips

PAM FRAMPTON: Anxiety — the stuff that dreams are made of

ANDY WALKER: Working towards a screen time balance

LETTER: CBRM and Halifax average assessment values re-visited

LETTER: CBRM’s financial pain hitting home

Business

P.E.I.'s spring sitting of the legislature has closed. Here are three takeaways

Roll Up to Win confusion: Cape Bretoners disappointed after Tim Hortons email mistake

Time to double the quota? Owner of only N.L. fish plant to process exclusively northern cod thinks stocks are ready and is working to regain its position in global marketplace

Leon's furniture store completes relocation from Charlottetown to Summerside

CBRM seeks land-use bylaw change for supportive housing units

Toyota to delay EV production launch in US to 2026, Mid Japan Economist reports

Lifestyles

Baseball NL wants more players and communities to 'Step Up to the Plate'

Scary, exciting times: Some first-time buyers perservering despite frustrating market challenges

Curious, not furious: How to manage a child's big emotions

P.E.I. lighthouse finalist in Canadian historical place restoration competition

ERIN SULLEY: Never underestimate the power of a slow cooker in the kitchen – check it out by making this slow cooker apple pork

One for the ages: Cape Breton comic proud to be a geriatric millennial

Sports

TELUS CUP: GM Duane Richards the heartbeat of P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild

P.E.I.'s Kensington Vipers win opener at Don Johnson Memorial Cup in dramatic fashion

MHL PLAYOFFS: Caps’ Duquette suspended indefinitely

P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild drops decision to Calgary at Telus Cup

P.E.I.'s Kensington Vipers making 15th appearance at Don Johnson Memorial Cup

MHL PLAYOFFS: Timberwolves tie series; Caps facing another suspension

Canada

Pallet shelter plan: A year late and 90 per cent short

Hutton says tent city protesters impeding help ‘to keep the protest going’

'Flying planes by french fries': Come by Chance refinery fully operational; 50 years in the community

Roll Up to Win confusion: Cape Bretoners disappointed after Tim Hortons email mistake

Mallard Cottage and BDC make first court appearance

Bonavista police investigating break-in, theft at Anglican Christ Church

World

China stands by economic data, says defence spending 'transparent'

US births retreat after pandemic-era growth

China should have confidence to talk to us, Taiwan's president-elect says

Clinical lab operator Labcorp to buy bankrupt genetic test maker Invitae for $239 million

Australian police charge five teenagers in Sydney cleric's stabbing

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