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Stargazing or glamping on your summer bucket list? Cosy up in a geodesic dome by True North Destinations in Pleasant Bay along Cape Breton Island’s Cabot Trail. Read our interview with the owners on Page 11. - Belle DeMont

True North Destinations brings Eco-chic to Cape Breton Island

Experience the very best of summer in Atlantic Canada

- Belle DeMont Photo Illustration

Millicent McKay offers an insider’s guide to P.E.I.

Can tourism strangle a community's identity?

Is tourism a trap for Atlantic Canadians?

Foraging for wild food in Atlantic Canada

Four food trucks to try in Newfoundland this summer

Underwater tourism is the ultimate immersive experience

Is Atlantic Canadian tourism doing luxury right?

Sully, a Border collie and St. Bernard mix breed, recovers from his knee surgery at the Atlantic Veterinary College on Aug. 14, 2019. The surgery was paid for thanks to some of the 2,100 members of the Sully’s Adventures Facebook group, which raised $4,500. April Adams/Special to The Guardian.

P.E.I. dog gets surgery thanks to help from fans

Published 3 hours ago

PEI court

P.E.I. man takes shower in stranger's home; judge orders mental health assessment

Updated 11 hours ago

Hong Kong gears up for fresh protests as activists target airport

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Local

Vern Watson of Charlottetown gets around much faster on his new GIO scooter than he did on his previous device.

Rules say personal mobility scooters don't belong on P.E.I. roads

Updated a day ago

The public works department in Charlottetown is looking at the possibility of introducing pedestrian scrambling at the intersection of Queen and Grafton streets. Such a concept would involve traffic stopped in all four directions for about 20 to 30 seconds while pedestrians would be allowed to proceed across each of the intersections at the same time.

No firm decision on pedestrian scramble in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Published 12 hours ago

Charlottetown Coun. Mike Duffy suggested that it may be time to require cyclists to register and display a licence plate.

Charlottetown councillor Tweel wants more security in P.E.I.'s Victoria Park

Published 13 hours ago

Charlottetown city council has given the okay for five properties to be cleaned up.

Demolition list issued for properties in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Published 13 hours ago

Opinion

It is not Elections Canada’s fault for applying the law as it is written.

ANDREW COYNE: It's the election laws at fault, not Elections Canada

Updated 16 hours ago

OPINION: The automobile – freedom of the roads (part 2)

Updated Aug 20, 2019 at 4:21 p.m.

OPINION: The automobile arrives on Prince Edward Island (part 1)

Updated Aug 20, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

Baseball safer than hockey or football says Dr. Gifford-Jones.

GIFFORD-JONES: MLB players hold secret to longevity

Published Aug 20, 2019 at 12:22 p.m.

Business

For U.S. housing, trade war set to blunt some of Fed stimulus: Reuters poll

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Bank of China to open branch in Greece by end of 2019

Published 10 hours ago

Japan August manufacturing shrinks for fourth month as export orders fall: flash PMI

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U.S. factories show signs of trouble; labor market still firm

Updated 2 hours ago

Sports

Rock Diamonds N, with Mitch Cushing doing the driving, won the 60th edition of The Guardian Gold Cup and Saucer just after midnight Sunday at Red Shores at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

DOWN THE BACKSTRETCH: Rock Diamonds N gets precision trip in Gold Cup and Saucer victory

Published 6 hours ago

Harness racing

Dangle Ona Dime wins by a length in top race at Summerside Raceway

Published 12 hours ago

Head coach Randy Byrne, centre, speaks to the players on Team P.E.I. for this week’s 16-and-under girls’ national baseball championship in Bedford, N.S., during a training session in Stratford.

P.E.I. fielding first squad completely of Island players at 16-and-under girls’ national baseball tourney

Published 15 hours ago

Four Islanders will be playing for New Brunswick teams at the Bigs Seeds Canadian senior men’s baseball championship beginning today in Miramichi, N.B. From left are John Patrick (J.P.) Stevenson, Logan Gallant and Dillon Doucette.

Four Islanders playing for New Brunswick teams at senior men’s baseball nationals

Updated 17 hours ago

Local Lifestyles

‘Kapempant (Airplane)’, an acrylic on canvas painting by Mary Ann Penashue, was recently purchased by The Rooms provincial museum for the provincial art bank. -COURTESY OF CHRISTINA PARKER GALLERY

P.E.I. Summer Arts Auction planned for August 2020

Published 8 hours ago

Siobhan Parker will perform with Lena Westlund and Isaac Shaw at the Kirk of St. James recital today in Charlottetown at 12:10 p.m.

Recital at the Kirk to feature French horn, oboe and piano Aug. 22

Published 10 hours ago

Participants in the March of the Crows make their way down Victoria Row on Saturday. Every year, the march draws out hundreds of participants and spectators.

'Uncommon Threads' tie the 2019 Art in the Open together in Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Updated 10 hours ago

Sam (Michael Torontow) and Donna (Rebecca Poff), back row centre, appear in a cast photo for “Mamma Mia”at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.

Actor in P.E.I. production of 'Mama Mia!' nears 1,000th performance

Updated 6 hours ago

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