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

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

Security guards will patrol public parks in Charlottetown this summer, but some members of council say it’s not enough. Since 2010, the city has hired security to patrol Victoria Park and other city greenspaces. While council voted 10-0 at the April ...

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Transitional housing opens in Summerside with vulnerable mothers with new children

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Hope House Executive Director Tammy MacKinnon, said that the shelter is open 24 hours a day. New or expecting mothers can get a referral, or can self-refer. – Kristin Gardiner/SaltWire

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

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Andy Doran, president of the P.E.I. Teachers’ Federation, wants to see better working conditions for teachers in this province so those who graduate with an education degree will apply for teaching jobs here. Dave Stewart • The Guardian

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

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Testy exchange in P.E.I. legislature over measures to end Sunday hunting ban

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P.E.I. woman dead, Nova Scotia woman hospitalized following head-on collision in Upper Nappan

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Opinion

Clover's presence in fields and meadows increases plant diversity, providing habitat and food sources for various insects, birds and small mammals, writes Geoffrey Hurley, which promotes ecological balance and resilience. Gary Bendig • Unsplash

COMMENTARY: An ode to clover: So-called 'weed' has multifaceted benefits

Geoffrey Hurley, a retired environmental consultant living in Dartmouth, N.S. contributed the following opinion article. Email: [email protected] We all know that carrying clover, particularly a four-leaf clover, will bring you good ...

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MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: Trump takes a swing

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Tease for Michael de Adder's editorial cartoon for Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

COMMENTARY: Land acquisition critical to establishing Blue Mountain Park

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October 21, 2022--Drone photo of the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes area. To go with a story by Stu Peddle on a legal fight between the city of Halifax and Annapolis Group Inc.
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PETER McKENNA: Havana syndrome: Can Cuba be forgiven now?

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JOHN DeMONT: The dark side of gambling’s golden hour

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EDITORIAL: Nova Scotia mass casualty proved domestic violence is not a private matter

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Business

Duane, left, and Dave MacDonald, co-owners of Callbecks Home Hardware and now Leon’s Summerside, celebrated the latter’s official opening on April 17. Their company purchased the Leon’s franchise for P.E.I. from D.P. Murphy earlier this year and subsequently relocated it from Charlottetown to Summerside. Colin MacLean

Leon's furniture store completes relocation from Charlottetown to Summerside

The cutting of a bright yellow ribbon has marked a homecoming for a long-time Summerside business. Dave MacDonald held the scissors; he is co-owner, along with his brother Duane, of Callbecks Home Hardware and its associated family of businesses. On ...

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CBRM seeks land-use bylaw change for supportive housing units

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With provincial plans to ultimately phase out institutional settings for people with disabilities, such as Sydney River’s Breton Ability Centre, there will be a greater need for accessory dwelling units for supportive housing. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST FILE

Five Corners Properties talk 3,000 unit housing project in Bible Hill

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A proposal from Five Corners Properties offers 3,000 new residential units in the Bible Hill area. Image Five Corners Properties

Clarenville's SubC Imaging gets nearly $500K in N.L. government funding for new ROV project

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Interest in electric vehicles in Canada drops for second year: survey

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Mexico's consumer prices up 0.09% in early April

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Lifestyles

Cape Breton Community Calendar events for April 25-May 1

Cape Breton Community Calendar is a public service listing of community events sponsored by non-profit groups. It will appear weekly on Fridays. The deadline for submissions is the Wednesday previous at noon but to ensure adequate advance ...

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PHOTO: Cape Breton Golden K gives to palliative care

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Nominations open for 2024 Cape Breton Business and Philanthropy Hall of Fame

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The Cape Breton Regional Chamber of Commerce has opened nominations for the annual Cape Breton Business and Philanthropy Hall of Fame this year.

SHERRY MULLEY MACDONALD: Groves Point man brings MS walk back to Cape Breton

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Let’s do our part to help the planet: Today is Earth Day, time to connect with the natural world

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Nickelback playing Churchill Park Music Festival in St. John's

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Sports

The Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers participate in a skating drill during a practice at the Gerard (Turk) Gallant Arena in Summerside on April 16. The Vipers open play at the Don Johnson Memorial Cup Atlantic Canada junior B hockey championship tournament in Mount Pearl, N.L., on April 24. Jason Simmonds • Journal Pioneer

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

The Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers know the drill. The Vipers, who have won 13 provincial championships, begin play in their 15th Don Johnson Memorial Cup tournament, which will crown Atlantic Canada’s junior B hockey champion for the ...

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MHL PLAYOFFS: Timberwolves tie series; Caps facing another suspension

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Miramichi Timberwolves forward Zachael Turgeon, 14, passes the puck from behind the goal-line as Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals goaltender Drew Sim and forward Trent Crane, 11, defend on the play. The action took place during Game 1 in the best-of-seven Maritime Junior Hockey League championship series at the Island Petroleum Energy Centre on April 20. Turgeon recorded three points in the Timberwolves’ 5-1 win in Game 2 in Miramichi, N.B., on April 22. The series, which is tied 1-1, resumes in Summerside on April 24 at 7 p.m. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

NHL PUCK DROPS: Columnist offers playoff predictions

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Atlantic All-Star event in Halifax will showcase the region's top female basketball players

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P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild rally falls short in opening game at Telus Cup

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MHL PLAYOFFS: No officiating changes coming in final series

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Canada

Margaret Melanson has been appointed as the permanent president and CEO of Horizon Health in New Brunswick. - Horizon

New Brunswick's Horizon Health appoints Margaret Melanson as new president and CEO

Margaret Melanson has been appointed president and CEO of Horizon Health Network, effective immediately. Melanson, the interim president and CEO since July 2022, was appointed by the board of directors following a national search led by executive ...

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New grant to help affordable housing projects 'get off the ground'

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The 39-unit Barrack Green Residences development on Broadview Avenue is one of four projects approved for Saint John's 2023 affordable housing grants, the city's growth committee heard Monday.

'Very busy' year so far for building permits, Saint John says

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Construction has begun on the 56-unit Steepleview Apartments development on Waterloo and Cliff Streets. Saint John's growth commissioner Amy Poffenroth told the growth committee Tuesday that there are 525 units under construction or ready to start.

St. John's council moves forward on applications for apartment building on Blackmarsh Road, new cul-de-sac on Bay Bulls Road

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‘I’ve never seen such a caring, generous group of people’: Outpouring of support for families of two Lark Harbour men who died while lobster fishing

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Canadian military to destroy 11,000 Second World War-era pistols

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World

Teacher takes students name at lunch break in their first day of school, at Wilder Elementary School in Louisville, KY, Kentucky, U.S., August 11, 2021.

Biden administration toughens school nutrition standards

(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new rules limiting the sugar and sodium content of meals served to millions of children at U.S. public schools. The standards unveiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are part of ...

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Fuel tax blocks aid to hunger-ravaged South Sudan, UN says

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A woman waits to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan, February 26, 2017.

Analysis-China spy charges up scrutiny of Germany's far-right ahead of EU polls

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Maximilian Krah, member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany and AfD's top candidate in June's election to the assembly, gives a statement, after an aide has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of "especially severe" espionage for China, in Berlin, Germany, April 24, 2024.

Ukraine receives new EU funds, sees three more tranches in 2024

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Explainer-How the West might use Russia's frozen reserves to help Ukraine

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Thermo Fisher lifts profit forecast as medical equipment demand improves

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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

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

Transitional housing opens in Summerside with vulnerable mothers with new children

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

Testy exchange in P.E.I. legislature over measures to end Sunday hunting ban

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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

Testy exchange in P.E.I. legislature over measures to end Sunday hunting ban

P.E.I. woman dead, Nova Scotia woman hospitalized following head-on collision in Upper Nappan

Opinion

COMMENTARY: An ode to clover: So-called 'weed' has multifaceted benefits

MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: Trump takes a swing

COMMENTARY: Land acquisition critical to establishing Blue Mountain Park

PETER McKENNA: Havana syndrome: Can Cuba be forgiven now?

JOHN DeMONT: The dark side of gambling’s golden hour

EDITORIAL: Nova Scotia mass casualty proved domestic violence is not a private matter

Business

Leon's furniture store completes relocation from Charlottetown to Summerside

CBRM seeks land-use bylaw change for supportive housing units

Five Corners Properties talk 3,000 unit housing project in Bible Hill

Clarenville's SubC Imaging gets nearly $500K in N.L. government funding for new ROV project

Interest in electric vehicles in Canada drops for second year: survey

Mexico's consumer prices up 0.09% in early April

Lifestyles

Cape Breton Community Calendar events for April 25-May 1

PHOTO: Cape Breton Golden K gives to palliative care

Nominations open for 2024 Cape Breton Business and Philanthropy Hall of Fame

SHERRY MULLEY MACDONALD: Groves Point man brings MS walk back to Cape Breton

Let’s do our part to help the planet: Today is Earth Day, time to connect with the natural world

Nickelback playing Churchill Park Music Festival in St. John's

Sports

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

MHL PLAYOFFS: Timberwolves tie series; Caps facing another suspension

NHL PUCK DROPS: Columnist offers playoff predictions

Atlantic All-Star event in Halifax will showcase the region's top female basketball players

P.E.I.'s Kensington Wild rally falls short in opening game at Telus Cup

MHL PLAYOFFS: No officiating changes coming in final series

Canada

New Brunswick's Horizon Health appoints Margaret Melanson as new president and CEO

New grant to help affordable housing projects 'get off the ground'

'Very busy' year so far for building permits, Saint John says

St. John's council moves forward on applications for apartment building on Blackmarsh Road, new cul-de-sac on Bay Bulls Road

‘I’ve never seen such a caring, generous group of people’: Outpouring of support for families of two Lark Harbour men who died while lobster fishing

Canadian military to destroy 11,000 Second World War-era pistols

World

Biden administration toughens school nutrition standards

Fuel tax blocks aid to hunger-ravaged South Sudan, UN says

Analysis-China spy charges up scrutiny of Germany's far-right ahead of EU polls

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