Makiya Noonan was 13 months old when she underwent surgery for cochlear implants — at the time, according to her family, she was the youngest person in Canada to get both implants done in one surgery. Now 16 years old, the P.E.I. curler is gearing up to compete in the Canada Games in February. Makiya doesn’t remember life […]
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Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King is calling on the federal government to support reducing the toll on the Confederation Bridge by 60 per cent, so that it sits at $20 by September. King spoke with federal officials about decreasing the amount it costs to cross the bridge to New Brunswick in November, and then sent a letter on Dec. […]
A P.E.I. senior is locked in a battle with his insurance company over who should pay for thousands of dollars of damage his home sustained in post-tropical storm Fiona. “It’s just like a punch to the gut,” says Paul Williams, 72, who lives in New Annan, just east of Summerside. “My house was off the blocks and […]
A bald eagle from Prince Edward Island is settling in at his new home at the Hope for Wildlife rehabilitation and education centre near Halifax, N.S. It is the end of a very long journey for Eagle 450 — or Buddy, as he was affectionately dubbed by staff and students at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown. That’s […]
Some might describe it as a dog’s paradise — over 200 acres of private land in Kildare Capes, P.E.I. It certainly was for one four-year-old Pyrenees named Caspie. “She was clumsy and klutzy and just anybody that met her loved her,” said owner Debbie Travers. “She would come over, sit next to you … and […]
It all started when Joseph Luppe’s flight from Vancouver to Toronto was cancelled on Dec. 20 because of bad weather. Joseph, a student at the University of British Columbia, was planning to travel back home to his family in Wood Islands, P.E.I., for Christmas. But like many Canadians this holiday season, his travels did not […]
Despite considerable bounce-back in some major business sectors on P.E.I. in 2022, the provincial government is projecting it will run a deficit of $94.8 million by the end of the current fiscal year. That’s according to the province’s fiscal update, released on Thursday. The new figure represents a $1.9-million increase in the deficit, which was originally projected at […]
A winter storm that hit P.E.I. Tuesday is forecast to move off the Island this morning, but it’s tapped the power grid in West Prince in its dying hours. At 9:45 a.m. Maritime Electric was reporting more than 1,000 customers without power, with the largest concentration of outages in the Alberton area. Schools are closed […]
P.E.I.’s environment minister says the province is placing a moratorium that will mean no new development in buffer zones along the Island’s fragile shorelines until a policy to protect them can be drafted and brought to the legislature. Steven Myers made the announcement as the Prince Edward Island’s legislature adjourned after its fall sitting, saying […]
Some schools are closed and opening is delayed for others as thousands of homes and businesses on P.E.I. are without power in a windstorm Thursday morning. Power outages have closed Englewood Elementary, Mount Stewart Consolidated, and Donagh Regional. Other schools are operating on a one-hour delay. RCMP are warning they are receiving reports of trees down on […]