Prince Edward Island News Archives

Taylor Mitchell, a 19-year-old folksinger from Toronto, died after she was attacked by two coyotes in Cape Breton.

CHARLOTTETOWN A 26-year-old North Milton man is facing charges of possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography following a police search carried out Wednesday.

A rediscovered work of fiction by L.M. Montgomery, handed to the publisher on the day she died in 1942, could change the way Canadians think about the famous author of Anne of Green Gables and her writing.

Chief health officer Dr. Heather Morrison assures Islanders there will be enough vaccine to go around.

PEI Premier Robert Ghiz says he met with Quebec premier Jean Charest last month to discuss energy options.

Anne Murray says she decided to write her tell-all memoir because it was the last item remaining on her career to-do list.

Hotel staff attempt to talk protesters down off the furniture. Four seal hunt protesters were dragged from a lunch hosted by the Fisheries Council of Canada in Charlottetown on Wednesday.

A pair of anti-seal protesters protesters were arrested Wednesday for disrupting the Fisheries Council of Canada fall conference in Charlottetown.

Demonstrators with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are planning to protest the Canadian seal hunt outside the Fisheries Council of Canada fall conference in Charlottetown today.

The city laid it on the line Tuesday with representatives from Bell Aliant over pending job losses in Summerside and is now awaiting a reply from the major communications company.

The opposition Progressive Conservatives are engaging in a smear campaign against "a young Island couple that is dedicated to public service," P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz charged Thursday.

Shoppers looking for bargains had a last chance on the weekend at two Charlottetown stores dedicated to selling P.E.I. products.

Occupational Health and Safety officials have concluded their investigation of a workplace accident earlier this month in Summerside, P.E.I. An electrical worker with a private contractor fell off a ladder while working on the overhead lights at an Atlantic Superstore.

East Prince RCMP are investigating a possible spud-gun shooting that could have resulted in a serious crash.

Peter Goodhand was a relatively young man when his first wife was diagnosed with a rare and incurable form of cancer at the age of 30.

Speaking for the first time since issuing a public apology nearly two weeks ago over "inappropriate" jokes about a deadly listeriosis outbreak linked to processed meats, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Monday faced a barrage of attacks by opposition politicians who accused him of ducking responsibility for food safety.

Prince Edward Island's Breast Screening Program is being improved to reduce wait times by up to several months, health officials announced this week.

The Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts is on the road, talking with artists across the province about arts education and training for adults.

Bell Aliant is closing two storefront customer service locations in Charlottetown and Summerside, P.E.I., as part of an ongoing effort to streamline its operations.

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Carrie St. Jean, from left, president of the P.E.I. Teachers Federation, Mary-Lou Donnelly, president of the Canadian Teachers Federation, and Dr.

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ST. JOHNa S, N.L. - Two polls conducted before the election campaign was called have the federal Liberals riding high in Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, while two more show the Conservatives on top in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

DFO has determined that the Bluefin Tuna fishery will remain open overnight to fish the remaining portion of the PEI 2009 fall tuna quota.

The total number of people affected wasn't disclosed but Atlantic Canada's main phone company said its 16 customer call centres range in size from four employees to 400 and employ about 1,400 jobs in total.

Charges are pending after a car hit a potato truck in Prince Edward Island, sending three people to hospital.

More than 1,000 Maritime Electric customers lost power in Charlottetown overnight due to a downed wire in West Royalty.

Three years after its completion, some drivers are still trying to get around it literally and figuratively.

Charlottetown Water & Sewer Utility has closed North River Road today between Villa Avenue & Green Street to repair a broken water main gate.

The fall tuna season had only been open a couple of hours when Prince Edward Island fisherman Terry Harris nabbed a giant.

This is Fire Prevention Week, and the Summerside fire department is marking the occasion by hosting 12 students each day from the city's elementary schools.

Artist Laura Archer pictured in her studio , St. Antoine West, Montreal, Wednesday, July 30, 2008, with part of her exhibition, ' Facing Africa'. Photograph by: Graham Hughes, Montreal Gazette Officials with the international aid organization, Doctors Without Borders, were continuing to grapple with conflicting information out of Sudan Saturday on ...

ALBERTON Hand sanitizers are showing up in some Island churches as clergy and their congregations take steps to control the spread of the H1N1 virus, swine flu.

In what might be the clearest indication yet that Canada's labour market is recovering sooner than expected, Statistics Canada reports that the country's jobless rate fell for the first time in nearly a year last month, to 8.4 per cent.

Higher prices at the gas pumps Friday fuelled talk on the election campaign while a new poll suggested almost four in 10 Canadians would vote strategically to keep Prime Minister Stephen Harper from winning a majority government.

CHARLOTTETON The 2009 recipients of the Order of Prince Edward Island were honoured at a special investiture ceremony at Government House recently.

The New Brunswick government has set up a hotline for patients after a review was ordered of ultrasounds, chest X-rays and other tests done over the last three years by a radiologist whose work has come under scrutiny.

People need to know that there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for those who would harm the young.

An inmate at Charlottetown's Sleepy Hollow Correctional Centre has pleaded guilty to assaulting a guard at the jail.

The pilot killed Saturday when his homemade plane spiraled down into a Prince Edward Island farmer's field has been identified as 70-year-old Thomas Capstick, a long-time aviator and former airport employee.

One man was killed in a single-engine plane crash just after noon today near an airstrip in western Prince Edward Island.

Canada's municipalities have backed away from a threat to boycott U.S. goods and services in retaliation for "Buy American" provisions that were included in the economic stimulus bill south of the border.

Prince Edward Island has dropped the Keno lottery game. The move follows Nova Scotia's decision last month to discontinue the controversial electronic game, the Island's gambling strategy officer said Friday.

A Canadian man who shot his television with a handgun was placed on probation and ordered to undergo psychological counseling in Prince Edward Island.

By Nancy MacPhee Journal Pioneer SUMMERSIDE - Michael Schurman was on a golf course when it happened.

Minimum wage increases to $8.40 About 2,000 Prince Edward Island residents still earn minimum wage The Guardian Minimum wage increases across Prince Edward Island Thursday.