Cheers to Charlottetown resident George Bassett and his family for creating a $100,000 endowment fund for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation to go towards medical equipment for cancer care at the P.E.I. Cancer Treatment Centre.
The donation was made in the memory of Abla Bassett, George’s wife. The Bassetts have been a pillar in the community since the late 1960s.
George said he hopes this gift will inspire other business owners to consider doing the same.
Cheers to the Town of Cornwall's staff and council for establishing the activity credit program last week.
The program's goal is to get the town's youngest and oldest residents involved in recreational, educational or artistic programs of their choice by providing a $20 subsidy to them once a year.
It's a proactive initiative that will let eligible residents pursue their interests and become more well-rounded citizens.
Jeers to the people who aren't properly disposing of their disposable facemasks.
Disposable does not mean they can be dropped on a sidewalk, in the middle of a parking lot, inside a grocery cart or along the Confederation Trail.
Wearing a facemask during a pandemic is a good hygienic practice; so is taking the time to either put them in a public waste receptacle or holding onto them until they can be disposed of properly and safely at home.
Also, don't forget to snap off the ear loops so they don't choke or tangle wildlife.
Jeers to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for recommending a 15 per cent cut of P.E.I. public servant wages and benefits.
The recommendation was included in a CTF submission for the upcoming provincial budget.
The CTF also suggested privatizing golf courses in P.E.I. and replacing business subsidies with tax cuts.
In fairness, these measures should be debated publicly. But it is clear public servants have played a vital role in P.E.I. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some enforced border control protocols — a key measure that may have played a crucial role in ensuring community spread was limited.
These public servants deserve respect; suggesting an across-the-board wage cut is free-market fundamentalist run amok.
Cheers to Malpeque MP Wayne Easter for speaking out publicly to the Globe and Mail about security and human rights concerns related to China.
Easter expressed concerns about the intimidation of Chinese-Canadians and about the increasing integration of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in government-funded research partnerships.
Easter is one of few Liberal MPs who have enough stature to make such independent-minded comments.
But at a time when the Chinese government is committing human rights violations against Uyghur citizens in Xinjiang, and while Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are still languishing in prison, it is refreshing to see Easter speak up.