Featured Local Perspectives
LAWRENCE MacAULAY: Canadian products are worth promoting
Lawrence MacAulay, Canada’s minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and member of Parliament for Cardigan, Prince Edward Island, provided the following opinion article. There is no question that our farmers, producers, and fishers work tirelessly to ...
ANDY WALKER: Change is not always better
The reaction to the death of former prime minister Brian Mulroney, unfortunately, points out yet again how much the political atmosphere has changed, not only in Canada but in many other parts of the world. I was particularly struck by the reaction ...
LETTERS: Canada is not broken; treated like a criminal
Canada is not broken Why is Pierre Poilievre campaigning when an election has not yet been called? Does he really understand the Canadian political system? The American political system is always campaigning but not the Canadian one. Canada usually ...
RICK MacLEAN: You learn who you are when the power goes out
The first time it happened, I missed it. Well, most of it. A huge ice storm hit my end of the world in January 2017 and, well, the lights went out. And the heat. And cable TV. And the internet. All the things you need to survive. All the ...
COMMENTARY: Invest in women. Accelerate equality
Serena Smith of Summerside is the chairperson of the P.E.I. Advisory Council on the Status of Women. The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day celebration is a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The impact of investing in women ...
EDITORIAL: With an ambulance hours away, rural Atlantic Canadians desperate for solutions
When a single-vehicle crash left three young children badly injured, it took a total of two hours and 20 minutes from the first 911 call for all the youngsters to be picked up by ambulance while a first responder had to stabilize a victim's spine for ...
CHEERS AND JEERS: Jeers to P.E.I. Premier Dennis King for swipes at a public servant
Jeers to P.E.I. Premier Dennis King for his bullying language since the legislature reconvened on Feb. 27. On the opening day of the spring sitting, King told the assembly that he wished he had fired former Health P.E.I. CEO Michael Gardam. This ...
COMMENTARY: Mulroney left his mark on Canada-U.S. relations
Who could forget those images, troubling to some no doubt, of then prime minister Brian Mulroney and U.S. president Ronald Reagan – celebrating the end of a successful mid-March 1985 “Shamrock Summit” in Quebec City – kicking up their heels to the ...
EDITORIAL: Gender gaps persist as International Women's Day marked March 8
One year ago, on March 5, 2023, SaltWire journalist Juanita Mercer won the National Newspapers Awards’ E. Cora Hind Award for her work on exposing the gender pay gap in her home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. As International Women’s Day ...
LETTERS: P.E.I. letters writers on medical homes and saving the environment
Patient registry, empty promises Premier Dennis King has been quoted as saying (also a campaign promise) his party will eliminate the patient registry by the end of 2025 with all the new medical homes being built. Would a statement like this be ...