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Members of the Halifax Regional Police forensics identification unit are seen in front of C.P. Allen High School after a stabbing incident at the school in Bedford March 20, 2023. 

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EDITORIAL: A is for anxiety: Atlantic Canadian schoolchildren living new world for learning

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Within the next 60 days, Charlottetown's Community Outreach Centre on Euston Street will be shut down, and the province will move it to 15 Park St., marking the fifth relocation of the centre in just a few years. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

IAN (TEX) MacDONALD: Other locales better suited to Charlottetown's outreach centre

Contributed |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Traffic lines up to cross the scales at the waste drop-off plant in Charlottetown in this Google Streetview image.

LETTERS: Thoughts on P.E.I. waste collection

Contributed |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

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 ...

The April 8 eclipse viewed from the Mill River Resort in Mill River, P.E.I., began shortly after 3:30 p.m. and lasted until after 5 p.m., with the moon obscuring the sun for more than two minutes. Tristan Hood • The Guardian

LETTER: Eclipse offered opportunity for reflection and connection

Contributed |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

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, ...

Montreal's Maureen Murphy skates past a Barbie advertisement on the boards after a goal at Place Bell during a PWHL game against Ottawa on March 10, 2024 as smoke from flares begins to dissipate in the stands. Jocelyne Lloyd • The Guardian

JOCELYNE LLOYD: PWHL's atmosphere unlike any other hockey crowd I have experienced

Jocelyne Lloyd |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |14 min read Premium content

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 ...

President Javier Milei gestures during his election campaign in Buenos Aires, Argentina Nov. 4, 2023. REUTERS/Mariana Nedelcu/File

PETER McKENNA: Anyone guess what Argentina’s Milei is up to?

Contributed, Peter McKenna |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Blayre Turnbull celebrates scoring a goal against Minnesota on Feb. 3 in Toronto. - PWHL

EDITORIAL: Women's sports — and Atlantic Canadians — on the world stage

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |10 min read Premium content

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 ...

The 1969-70 Charlottetown Junior Islanders’ hockey team was inducted into the P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame at Credit Union Place in Summerside recently. Contributed

CHEERS AND JEERS: Cheers to latest P.E.I. Sports Hall of Fame inductees

SaltWire Staff |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Kathy Birt, with her son Tyler Jorgensen in the left photo and with his partner Amy Martin in the right photo, says she is trying to hold on to happy memories of her son, who died in February.

REFLECTION: A mother and partner share grief of losing a member of P.E.I. music scene

Contributed |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

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 ...

The alcohol industry cannot refute the health impacts of its product, writes David Cairns, but it can divert attention from these impacts and its role in creating them through efforts such as the "drink responsibly" slogan. SaltWire file

COMMENTARY: The best pathways to alcohol safety are free

Contributed |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

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