The Guardian

Summerside city council must not forget about the situation downtown. We have many empty business locations, including limited employment options.  As we speak, Summerside city council has committed to the Pope Road/Central Street, our ...

Recently, reading the cheers and jeers I came to this jeer from a concerned citizen about horses on the Confederation Trail causing damages. It prompted me to write to rebuke that statement. I was a horse person that owned and rode horses all ...

Kate MacQuarrie Guest opinion As Members of Parliament prepare to return to Ottawa next week, it’s timely to remind them of some basic principles of good governance.  We expect our MPs to support democratic processes and ...

Phil Ferraro  Guest opinion There has been a fair bit of talk about civil forfeiture in the news lately. The government of Prince Edward Island has not enacted civil forfeiture legislation. However, that may change if some well-intentioned ...

Regarding the issue of school lunches and their proposed reforms in Island schools, it is shameful that the King government is opting to include for-profit corporations in their planning when instead this reform should be seen as a tremendous ...

Daphne Davey’s excellent letter of Jan. 14th outlined the need for a provincial museum that includes natural history. While the Museum Act of 1983 included natural history, we are still lacking facilities and staff for the P.E.I. Museum and ...

CHEERS: TO Summerside's Noah Dobson, who scored his first NHL goal Tuesday versus the Detroit. The 20-year-old rookie defenceman floated a shot from just outside the faceoff circle that looked to be going wide of the net. But a failed ...

EDITOR:   Once more Summerside shows leadership when it comes to the development and use of renewable energy. It's been especially aware of the importance of storage, in some ways the holy grail of renewable energy. The sun doesn't ...

EDITOR:   The most alarming article in the Jan. 6 Guardian was the special report on page A4: “Oil and gas bonanza on Newfoundland's horizon.” Our world is nearing a tipping point, and any additional oil and gas extracted ...

EDITOR:   The test facing Island society is a deeply moral one: can we rid the Island of industrialized agriculture? There is something murderous about the way we treat the soil of this Island, and even those who don't commit the ...