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Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:19 PM

Canada goes for gold in sledge hockey

Canada will compete for the gold medal on Saturday at the World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Charlottetown.

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Last Updated: November 20 2009, 9:33 PM

H1N1 postpones hospital fundraiser

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown postponed a large fundraiser for its annual Friends for Life campaign on Thursday because of swine flu conerns.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 8:56 PM

P.E.I. deficit to be $85M

P.E.I.'s deficit for the 2009-2010 fiscal year will be $85 million, treasurer Wes Sheridan announced during his fiscal update on Friday.

It could be up to eight weeks before a refugee family can move back in to their smoke-damaged duplex. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 6:09 PM

Refugee family escapes Charlottetown fire

A refugee family of nine from Colombia is temporarily homeless after a fire at a Charlottetown duplex Friday.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 1:37 PM

Tournament of Hearts comes to P.E.I.

Charlottetown will host the women's national curling championship, the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, in 2011.

New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham was attending a meeting of Atlantic Canada premiers in Churchill Falls, Labrador, Friday. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 12:47 PM

N.B. and N.L. remain at odds over utility sale

The premiers of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador say they've agreed to disagree over the planned sale of NB Power to Hydro-Qu�bec.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:29 AM

Chef criticized for foie gras on menu

A Charlottetown restaurant owner says he would consider permanently taking foie gras off his menu if there were a large group of people who wanted it removed.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:18 AM

Lost bus ticket stalls student in Moncton

A 17-year-old university student from Prince Edward Island thinks Acadian bus lines should not have stranded her temporarily at its Moncton terminal this week.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 10:18 AM

Lost bus ticket stalls student in Moncton

A 17-year-old university student from Prince Edward Island thinks Acadian bus lines should not have stranded her temporarily at its Moncton terminal this week.

Opposition leader Olive Crane wants to know why pay for tutors is so low when the government has money to hire wine experts. (P.E.I. legislature)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 8:37 AM

Parents desperate for autism strategy

Long wait times in P.E.I. for the diagnosis of autism, up to two years, are leaving parents in a "state of panic," said a protester at the legislature Thursday.

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 7:10 AM

Child-care study starting late, says opposition

Opposition leader Olive Crane is questioning the timing of the P.E.I. government's decision to study the economic impact of moving kindergarten from child-care centres to the school system.

The Dominion Building has been vacant since 2008. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 20 2009, 6:29 AM

Federal building in Charlottetown up for sale

The Dominion Building in downtown Charlottetown will be on the real estate market within a matter of weeks.

Simon Buckhaven said he wanted to reduce the time it takes to kill lobsters for cooking. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 9:48 PM

Lobster jolt more humane: inventor

A British inventor is hoping his lobster-killing device - which zaps them with electricity as an alternative to boiling them alive - will give the Maritime lobster industry a jolt.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 8:06 PM

Cavendish Farms union thanks P.E.I. for training funds

The union representing Cavendish Farms workers has publicly thanked the P.E.I. government for more than $600,000 in training money.

Childcare workers pinned black ribbons on their charges at a rally outside the legislature. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 6:49 PM

Child-care workers rally at P.E.I. legislature

Dozens of child-care workers gather outside the P.E.I. legislature to raise concerns about the loss of funding when kindergarten moves into the public school system next fall.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 4:37 PM

Final UPEI hockey coach quits

The entire coaching staff of the UPEI Panthers hockey team has now quit and an interim coach has been hired.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 2:49 PM

Wholesale business Kays to reopen

Kays Brothers, a wholesale business that operated for 60 years in Charlottetown, is reopening under new ownership.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 1:19 PM

Union wants role in health-care talks

Unions representing health-care workers on P.E.I. are upset they have been cut out of discussions about the creation of a new agency to administer health delivery in the province.

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 12:42 PM

Charges laid in heating oil spill

Police in Summerside have laid charges against an 18-year-old Kensington man after a car struck an oil tank at a Summerside house Friday night and fled the scene.

Cammie Richard, seen in her hospital room in Toronto, has been `quite the trooper,` her mom says. (Family photo)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 9:42 AM

P.E.I. toddler battles cancer in Toronto

A two-year-old Summerside girl with tumours in her abdomen, ribcage, skull and leg bones is undergoing a stem cell transplant in Toronto in hopes of beating the cancer.

RCMP Sgt. Denis Morin said police chased several tips about Gregory`s whereabouts in the early years of the case. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 7:57 AM

Husband 'only suspect' in '80s disappearance

The RCMP say Theresa Ann Gregory, who disappeared from her P.E.I. home in 1982, was probably killed by her husband, Kenny Gregory, who committed suicide 10 years later.

Stephanie Drake`s daughter Hannah needs to do daily stretching exercises. (Nancy Russell/CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 7:19 AM

Child physiotherapy program expanded

Children older than six who require physiotherapy or occupational therapy will soon be able to get it at three P.E.I. schools.

Carolyn Bertram said two different minimum wages are possibility in the new code. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 19 2009, 6:36 AM

Sick leave, holidays improved in new code

Employees in non-union jobs on Prince Edward Island are about to see some improvements in their working conditions.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 9:54 PM

Traffic fines set to increase

P.E.I. is set to increase traffic violation fines, in some cases doubling the value.

An energy deal between Hydro-Qu�bec and New Brunswick could see the Magdalen Islands connected to the mainland power grid. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 8:29 PM

Hydro deal raises questions for Magdalen Islands

Magdalen Islands Mayor Jo�l Arsenault says Hydro-Qu�bec's business plans in Atlantic Canada may be a mixed blessing for his community.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 7:51 PM

Hazelbrook dump owner happy about reopening

The president of Bulldog Demolition says he's pleased the provincial government has allowed his company to reopen its construction and demolition waste site in Hazelbrook, P.E.I., after more than 18 months.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 3:58 PM

Minister defends new lobster program

P.E.I. Fisheries Minister Neil LeClair is defending a decision to offer financial assistance to new lobster fishermen when there are efforts underway to get people to leave the industry.

Progressive Conservative Leader Olive Crane said Wednesday it`s up to the public to decide whether the Liberal MLAs` use of the immigrant investment program was a conflict of interest. (P.E.I. legislature)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 3:01 PM

Liberal MLAs who used PNP funds cleared of wrongdoing

P.E.I.'s conflict of interest commissioner has cleared three Liberal MLAs of any wrongdoing in connection with their involvement in the provincial nominee program (PNP).

Dr. Billy Scantlebury says requests for doctor`s notes are clogging up waiting rooms. (CBC)

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 1:34 PM

Go easy on doctor's notes: medical society

Employers should be relaxing their policies regarding doctor's notes for sick employees during the flu pandemic, says the Medical Society of P.E.I.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 11:13 AM

Wind power health effects queried by municipal group

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is asking Ottawa to fund more scientific research into the potential health effects of wind turbines.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 9:31 AM

UPEI hockey coaches resign

Three of the four coaches for the UPEI men's hockey team have resigned.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 7:38 AM

Starbucks boosts downtown coffee business

Some downtown coffee shops in Charlottetown have been surprised to find this fall that business is up since the arrival of Starbucks at the end of September.

Last Updated: November 18 2009, 6:31 AM

P.E.I. signs off on training money for Irving

Innovation Minister Allan Campbell has completed an agreement to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Irving-owned Cavendish Farms for staff training.

Last Updated: November 17 2009, 8:50 PM

Hazelbrook dump site to reopen

The province has given permission for the Hazelbrook construction and demolition dump site to reopen for 12 months.

Last Updated: November 17 2009, 8:49 PM

P.E.I. adult vaccinations begin Nov. 30

The general public in P.E.I. will be able to start getting vaccinated against H1N1 the week of Nov. 30, provincial health officials announced Tuesday.

Last Updated: November 17 2009, 5:04 PM

2 injured, 2 flee in ATV accident

Two men from western P.E.I. ended up in hospital and two fled the scene of an ATV accident in Nail Pond on Monday night.

Last Updated: November 17 2009, 3:16 PM

Apology needed for child migrants: descendant

The P.E.I. founder of the Canadian Centre for Home Children is asking the Canadian government to follow Australia's lead and apologize for its role in the child migrant program.

Last Updated: November 17 2009, 1:14 PM

Driver charged for hitting students

Charlottetown police have laid a charge against the city man whose car struck two teenage boys as they were in a crosswalk.

Last Updated: November 17 2009, 10:58 AM

French requested in parking ticket fight

A French-speaking Charlottetown man is asking the provincial court to hold his trial over five parking tickets in French.

Last Updated: November 17 2009, 10:28 AM

P.E.I. says no to wind turbine firm

A bankrupt wind energy company's latest attempt to get funding from P.E.I. taxpayers has been turned down.