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A building under construction on the University of Prince Edward Island campus will serve as the home of the UPEI faculty of medicine as well as a UPEI-based medical home. – Stu Neatby/SaltWire file

LETTERS: P.E.I. letter writers concerned about doctor shortage and direction of health care

Contributed |Updated May. 6, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

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 ...

Summerside Mayor Dan Kutcher has recently raised the issue of accelerated immigration in P.E.I. without an accompanying policy that focuses the growth where it's needed most. Kristin Gardiner • SaltWire file

BLAKE DOYLE: Depopulation strategies lacking in P.E.I.

Blake Doyle · Columnist, Contributed |Updated May. 6, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Two weeks after surgery to fix a hernia, Rick MacLean is counting down the weeks until he can hop on the bike again. Greg Rosenke • Unsplash

RICK MacLEAN: The girdle offered me a pregnancy lesson

Contributed, Rick MacLean · Columnist |Updated May. 3, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Lude Meng, a temporary foreign worker in Prince Edward Island, says her dream of relocating to the Island permanently was put in jeopardy after she made a complaint about sexual harassment in the workplace and was abruptly laid off. Meng shares her story in a three-part series for SaltWire. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports

SaltWire Network |Updated May. 3, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Lude Meng, left, a temporary foreign worker in P.E.I., has shared her story about obtaining an open work permit after she was laid off from her job at a fish plant, while Ryan MacRae at the Cooper Institute in Charlottetown helped her with the paperwork involved.

CHEERS AND JEERS: Cheers to those working to ensure safety of temporary foreign workers

SaltWire Staff |Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

The Residential Rental Association of P.E.I. has a new application process that aims to connect would-be tenants with landlords who have spaces to rent. Saltire file

LETTER: P.E.I. renters do not support blacklisting of tenants and other letters

Contributed |Updated May. 1, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

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 ...

P.E.I. Premier Dennis King spoke to members of the Greater Summerside Chamber of Commerce in 2023, where he heard labour shortages, including recruitment and retention, are one of the biggest challenges facing P.E.I. businesses. King will speak at the Charlottetown chamber's upcoming event on May 16. Kristin Gardiner • SaltWire file

COMMENTARY: P.E.I. businesses addicted to newcomer labour

Contributed |Updated May. 1, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

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EDITORIAL: Teaching 'n' texting — a school cellphone ban needs to be accompanied by more education

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Retired members of the military stand inside an original military vehicle of Portugal's Carnation Revolution during the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution that resulted in the overthrow of dictatorship. Pedro Nunes/Reuters

COMMENTARY: Portugal marks 50 years since the Carnation Revolution

Henry Srebrnik |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Columnist Debbie Langston suggests we be open and honest when talking about race with children instead of avoiding the subject as a taboo topic. Fabian Centeno • unsplash

DEBBIE LANGSTON: Talk to children about race

Debbie Langston · Columnist |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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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