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Check out the lights from your area and around Atlantic Canada below! - 123RF photo

Prince Edward Island Christmas lights map — Click to submit your lights

Get creative with Christmas projects right at home

You never know what to expect with a gift exchange.

A gift to anticipate

Shown here are the angels of Rose Blanche: (front, from left) Mildred Hatcher, Edith Leamon, Judy Hardy, Rita Currie, Joan Herritt, Valarie Pink, Alice Billard, (back) Maxine Edwards, Lesley Hardy, Violet Clarke, Lena Penney, Erna Buckland, Phyllis Horwood and Victoria Savoury. Missing from photo are Judy Francis, Ruth Deveaux, Audrey Best, Diane Hardy, Sylvia Munden, Diane Munden and Wanda Anderson.

Sewing love, cheer into every stitch

Artist Adam Young is often inspired by fishing stages.

Island of inspiration: Artist Adam Young paints vibrant scenes of East ...

Rooted in Christmas tree traditions

Roseanna Boyd is the president of the Hants County Christmas Angels Society and spends the holiday season helping others. She’s shown here with K-Rock 89.3 radio host Darrin Harvey.

Holiday help at the ready

Rose O’Keefe won The Telegram's Choice award for her Rose’s Raisin Molasses Bread recipe.

Recipes for the holidays

Using baker’s twine and miniature clothespins, you can easily clip up Christmas cards as they arrive.

Decor, function go hand in hand with this DIY holiday project

Get cosy on the couch this Christmas and enjoy a festive movie marathon.

Must-watch holiday movies

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This rum cake tastes like redemption

Ann Sherman, outgoing chairwoman of the Premier's Action Committee on Family Violence Prevention, lights a candle during an event in Charlottetown commemorating the Dec. 6, 1989 murder of 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal. The event also commemorated 10 women who have been murdered on P.E.I. since 1989. - Stu Neatby

Hundreds gather in Charlottetown to commemorate murdered women in Montreal, P.E.I.

Updated 2 hours ago

RCMP cruiser.

Solar panels stolen from Cape Breton Highlands National Park

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Performers from The Foggy View Players will be staging their annual holiday show, In-Laws, Outlaws and Other People (That Should Be Shot) at the Louisbourg Playhouse on Saturday, Dec. 7, Sunday, Dec. 8 and Monday, Dec. 9. Shown here left to right are Rachel Wagner playing Bud, Denise Poirier playing Tracy and Thelma Baillie playing Aunt Rose.

Latest Louisbourg production looks at unwelcome guests

Published 17 minutes ago

Logan Kelly-Murphy of the Cape Breton Eagles watches the play during a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League game against the Shawinigan Cataractes at Centre 200 last month. Kelly-Murphy was an invite to camp and earned himself a spot on the Cape Breton roster this season.

Cape Breton Eagles’ Kelly-Murphy getting his chance to play in the QMJHL

Published 26 minutes ago

Local

Kathy and Greg Caseley

P.E.I. couple's truck stolen after leaving it in a hotel parking lot in Montreal

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Province pleased with P.E.I. students performance in international test

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Liberal interim leader Sonny Gallant speaks with Social Development and Housing Minister Ernie Hudson. Gallant’s Liberal colleagues all voted against changes to the province’s Adoption Act, introduced by Hudson.

Head of national adoption records group says penalties in new P.E.I. law ‘beyond the pale’

Updated 11 hours ago

Officials with Red Shores are having discussions with staff and councillors with the City of Charlottetown and the provincial government about potential interest in expanding its operation into the adjacent trade centre. That interest first surfaced a couple of years ago but talks are going again as all parties try to figure out the future of the entire complex.

Red Shores could be ready to roll dice on expanding Charlottetown operation

Updated 12 hours ago

Opinion

Jim Williams is a senior research professor at St. Francis Xavier University. He is pictured along Antigonish Harbour. - Aaron Beswick

JIM WILLIAMS: Myth-busting Northern Pulp mill pollution

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Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister

EDITORIAL: Atlantic premiers should follow Manitoba's lead and appeal to workers fed up with Quebec's Bill 21

Updated a day ago

Bruce MacKinnon

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Dec. 5, 2019

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Contact The Guardian to submit a letter to the Editor.

LETTER: The shoreline needs trees

Published Dec 04, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

Business

The Charlottetown Short Term Rental Association identified this property on King Street as one of the many short-term rental properties in the city. A spokesman with the association says they recognize there is a housing shortage in the capital area but that they are not solely to blame for it. Dave Stewart/The Guardian

Charlottetown short-term rental owners welcome regulation, not restrictions

Updated 9 hours ago

Western, Chinese consumers divided on electric, self-driving cars -survey

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Brazilian inflation rebounds in November, but no barrier to rate cut

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Italy's watchdog suspends CHL shares over alleged irregularities

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Sports

The Kensington Wild and Moncton Flyers met in an entertaining New Brunswick/P.E.I. Major Midget Hockey League game in Kensington on Oct. 12. The Flyers scored two power-play goals during a 25-second span in the final minute of regulation time to win the game 3-2.

VIDEO: Sports talk with P.E.I. Guardian columnist Fred (Fiddler) MacDonald - Dec. 6, 2019

Published 4 hours ago

Austin Sorrie.

DOWN THE BACKSTRETCH: Sorrie, Barrieau in contention for O’Brien Awards

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Goaltender Cayden Primeau stops a shot during the Montreal Canadiens' rookie camp at the Bell Sports Complexe in Brossard on Sept. 6, 2019.

Canadiens Game Day: Habs lose game and Jesperi Kotkaniemi

Updated 31 minutes ago

Pascal Aquin celebrates with Pierre-Olivier Joseph after Joseph scored a goal in Game 3 of the Charlottetown Islanders second-round playoff series with the Halifax Mooseheads Tuesday in Charlottetown.

Aquin scores first AHL goal

Published a day ago

Local Lifestyles

Music P.E.I.

Music P.E.I. announces 2020 award nominees

Updated 3 hours ago

There are many things to consider when giving someone a cookbook as a holiday gift.

MARGARET PROUSE: Give a cookbook fitting of the recipient's needs

Published 7 hours ago

Trooper will be back at Rock the Boat MusicFest at Green Park on Aug. 1, 2020 for the first time since 2016. - Contributed

Rock the Boat confirms first five musical acts for 2020 festival in P.E.I.

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KEELYWOOD: Shopping for Christmas? Try these Hollywood-inspired gifts

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Jim Williams is a senior research professor at St. Francis Xavier University. He is pictured along Antigonish Harbour. - Aaron Beswick

JIM WILLIAMS: Myth-busting Northern Pulp mill pollution

RCMP cruiser.

Solar panels stolen from Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Performers from The Foggy View Players will be staging their annual holiday show, In-Laws, Outlaws and Other People (That Should Be Shot) at the Louisbourg Playhouse on Saturday, Dec. 7, Sunday, Dec. 8 and Monday, Dec. 9. Shown here left to right are Rachel Wagner playing Bud, Denise Poirier playing Tracy and Thelma Baillie playing Aunt Rose.

Latest Louisbourg production looks at unwelcome guests

Logan Kelly-Murphy of the Cape Breton Eagles watches the play during a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League game against the Shawinigan Cataractes at Centre 200 last month. Kelly-Murphy was an invite to camp and earned himself a spot on the Cape Breton roster this season.

Cape Breton Eagles’ Kelly-Murphy getting his chance to play in the QMJHL

The Mercedes GLE 450 has a knockout cabin with heaps of passenger room.

This Mercedes may have the best cabin in the game

Jason Daniel Pentecost, 43, of Westmount, stood trial in July on six counts of child luring relating to two female complainants aged 15 and 16. A Supreme Court judge delivered a verdict in the case Friday in Sydney.

Suspended Westmount teacher found guilty of child luring

Leave kids in their “inside” clothing until securely belted in, with hats, mitts and boots. Then use a blanket or wrap for warmth.

Snowsuit in a car seat isn't as safe as you might think

Riverview High School is changing the Red Cup format this season, the Cape Breton Post has learned. Sources tell the Post the school is looking at the idea of having games played after school during the weekday and possibly only feature the local teams.

Riverview High School making changes to Red Cup Showcase format for 2020 tournament: sources

Paul Vienneau, manager of Cape Breton Search and Rescue, shows a tattoo of a drawing by editorial cartoonist Sean Casey published in the Cape Breton Post in 2014, after the hero dog owned by the family of the late James Delorey, sadly died. Chance had been credited with keeping James Delorey, 7, warm during the two days he was lost in a snowstorm after wandering from his home. This was the second tattoo Vienneau got in regards to the death of Delorey, which Vienneau said has been hard for himself and other searchers to cope with.

VIDEO: Tragic search made its mark on Cape Breton volunteers

The Mazda CX-3 is a small crossover that’s fun to drive, practical, and it won’t get stuck in the snow.

Mazda's 2019 CX-3 GT AWD has the white stuff to tackle winter

Canadiens' Nick Suzuki follows the play during the third period against the San Jose Sharks in Montreal on Oct. 24, 2019.

Nick Suzuki moves back to centre to replace concussed Kotkaniemi

Toyota’s now made AWD available, optionally, with the new Prius AWD-E.

All-wheel-drive cars increasingly common, capable