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JOCELYNE LLOYD: This Mother's Day, think about life lessons
LETTERS: P.E.I. letter writers concerned about doctor shortage and direction of health care
Worried about health-care future For the first time, I tried to get care with the new virtual health-care system on P.E.I. My dear family doctor, a beautiful person, passed away, and now after 45 years, I do not have a family doctor. I had to fill ...
BLAKE DOYLE: Depopulation strategies lacking in P.E.I.
The province's population growth once heralded by political leaders has now become a Waterloo of poor planning. Growth aggressively sought by provincial and municipal politicians, is a quick pivot when constituents' ire is raised. The province with ...
RICK MacLEAN: The girdle offered me a pregnancy lesson
The cool thing about regaining consciousness is how sudden it can be. One minute you’re getting to know what it’s like to be wheeled down the hall on a stretcher. It’s exactly the same view shown in all the TV shows set in hospitals. The lights of ...
EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports
Like Atlantic Canadian labourers who migrate for jobs in western Canada for months at a time, when Lude Meng left her home in China to work in a Prince Edward Island fish plant, she did so to build a better life for her family. Instead, she faced a ...
CHEERS AND JEERS: Cheers to those working to ensure safety of temporary foreign workers
Cheers to the Cooper Institute in Charlottetown for its tireless work advocating for vulnerable P.E.I. residents, including temporary foreign workers like Lude Meng. In a series about Meng’s efforts to obtain an open work permit after she was ...
LETTER: P.E.I. renters do not support blacklisting of tenants and other letters
Renters do not blacklist tenants We wish to address concerns raised in the article titled "Centralized application for renters in P.E.I. could lead to privacy concerns, tenant blacklist: advocate" (April 22) by Logan MacLean. We are disappointed that ...
COMMENTARY: P.E.I. businesses addicted to newcomer labour
Ben Morrissey, a P.E.I. resident who is currently working as a policy analyst in Nunavut, provided the following opinion article. To preface, this piece in no way seeks to shame newcomers pursuing a better life or contributing to the Island ...
EDITORIAL: Teaching 'n' texting — a school cellphone ban needs to be accompanied by more education
The province of Ontario has just introduced the most restrictive ban on cellphone use in schools in the country. Yet, even that does not seem thorough enough to turn the tide on one of society’s greatest challenges in this age. Set to begin in ...
COMMENTARY: Portugal marks 50 years since the Carnation Revolution
Led by the left-wing Armed Forces Movement and supported by most of the population, the so-called Carnation Revolution not only brought down Portugal’s dictatorship, but also paved the way for the end of the country’s colonial wars in Africa. The ...
DEBBIE LANGSTON: Talk to children about race
As a Black woman, talking about race and intersectionality comes easily to me. It is inherent in my very existence. I move through this world, categorized first by my skin colour and then by my gender. Being racialized is not something I have to work ...
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