Featured Local Perspectives
EDITORIAL: A is for anxiety: Atlantic Canadian schoolchildren living new world for learning
The schoolchildren attending classes across Atlantic Canada today are experiencing a very different introduction to reading, writing and ’rithmetic than their parents — or even older siblings — did in years past. These days, an Apple left on a ...
IAN (TEX) MacDONALD: Other locales better suited to Charlottetown's outreach centre
Ian (Tex) MacDonald, a former mayor of Charlottetown, provided the following opinion article. In the landscape before us stands the Charlottetown Curling Club. It was built in 1945 after the original club, The Excelsior burned down in 1938. The ...
LETTERS: Thoughts on P.E.I. waste collection
Saving time and money It seems the government's answer to problems is to throw money at it. This is what is happening at Island Waste Management where they want to increase the rates. The government is giving them $2.9 million to defer those ...
LETTER: Eclipse offered opportunity for reflection and connection
Perhaps the eclipse on Monday was an opportunity for you, as it was for me, to stop and reflect — although it also reminds us that we are moving! My personal circumstances were such that I witnessed the 2017 solar eclipse, as well. On both occasions, ...
JOCELYNE LLOYD: PWHL's atmosphere unlike any other hockey crowd I have experienced
Almost exactly a month ago today I experienced one of my dreams coming true as I climbed the stairs to take my seat among more than 10,000 other enthusiastic hockey fans to watch the game played with unmatched skill by women in a professional ...
PETER McKENNA: Anyone guess what Argentina’s Milei is up to?
What is with Argentina’s mercurial and bombastic president, Javier Milei? Perhaps it is true what some commentators are saying about him – namely, that he is trying to channel his inner former U.S. president Donald Trump. Obviously operating under ...
EDITORIAL: Women's sports — and Atlantic Canadians — on the world stage
Has there ever been another time in history when the world’s attention has been captured, as it has been this month, by so many spectacular women athletes and teams performing on the international stage? With the WNBA Draft three days away on April ...
CHEERS AND JEERS: Cheers to latest P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame inductees
Cheers to the newest members of the P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame: Katie Baker (field hockey); Rickey Burns (bowling); the late Ray Moore (rugby) and the 1969-70 Charlottetown Junior Islanders. Not only are they excellent choices by the selection ...
REFLECTION: A mother and partner share grief of losing a member of P.E.I. music scene
Kathy Birt of Charlottetown is the mother and Amy Martin is the partner of Tyler Jorgensen, who they remember in the following reflection after his Feb. 1 death by suicide. From Kathy I was reading a lot like I usually do, but words on the pages ...
COMMENTARY: The best pathways to alcohol safety are free
David Cairns, an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Prince Edward Island, provided the following opinion article. In a recent dramatic moment, every government member in the P.E.I. legislative assembly rose to defeat Liberal MLA Gord ...