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• PNP list is private: privacy commissioner
  The province's acting privacy commissioner has ruled the list of businesses that benefitted from the Provincial Nominee Program will not be made ...
• New drugs to be covered by Province
  Ten new medications are being added to the list of drugs covered by the province, but the P.E.I. Cancer Society says funding for this initiative ...
• Child Protection Act to receive overhaul
  A number of changes are being made to strengthen the province's Child Protection Act, including one change that adds involvement or exposure to ...
• Premier rallies Liberal troops for next provincial...
  Prince Edward Island's next provincial election was top of mind among Liberals this weekend as Premier Robert Ghiz rallied his members with news ...
• Robinson disputes conflict findings
  CHARLOTTETOWN - The conflict of interest commissioner has disputed findings of the auditor general regarding MLAs accessing the Provincial ...
• Health department gears up for next round in the...
  CHARLOTTETOWN - The health department is getting ready to make expected long lines at H1N1 vaccine clinics easier to manage when the general ...
• H1N1 flu vaccine arrives
  Swine flu vaccines have arrived and are nowapproved, so starting next week Islanders can finally start getting immunized. The province's H1N1 ...
• Youth faces penalty from police, school
  CHARLOTTETOWN -- The Charlottetown teen who posted a shooting threat on Facebook against Charlottetown Rural High School last week will be facing ...
• Charlottetown Rural back to normal
  Classes resumed at Charlottetown Rural this morning and everything is back to normal now that police have identified the shooting threat made ...
• New future for Maplewood Manor
  It's never an easy decision to place a family member in a nursing home or a senior's manor. But when the facility has cramped rooms, narrow ...
• Department of Innovation doles out $13 million in loans
  CHARLOTTETOWN - The department of Innovation has been handing out millions of dollars in loans to several businesses looking to expand and ...
• Kindergarten will graduate to full days, full-time
  SUMMERSIDE - Kindergarten will be offered as a full-day, mandatory program when introduced into P.E.I.'s public school system in 2010 - and will ...
• Currie pleads guilty to assault
  Progressive Conservative MLA Mike Currie pleaded guilty to a charge of assault in Provincial Court Friday morning. Currie was charged May 29 ...
• Island gets failing grade in history
  P.E.I.'s high school history curriculum got a failing grade Monday from a national organization that promotes Canadian history, but the ...
• Funding flurry for the Island
  Tenders for 54 infrastructure projects across P.E.I. will soon go out, thanks to a commitment from all three levels of government. Seventeen ...
• Group takes case on school closures to premier
  The Eastern School District has recommended eight schools for closure, but it is now for government to decide whether to permanently shut those ...
• Currie charged
  Progressive Conservative MLA Mike Currie was charged Friday with assault against a protester outside the P.E.I. legislature earlier this month. ...
• Flu info hotline ringing steadily
  The information line set up to receive inquiries about the human swine influenza on P.E.I. has been ringing off the hook. During the daily media ...
• Suspected Island swine flu cases down
  The number of Islanders being screened for the human swine influenza dropped from eight to five Tuesday as the Province continues to monitor this ...
• Fees on the rise
  Despite a campaign promise against it, government user fees and permits are going up in several departments. This year, the P.E.I. government ...
• Minister suggests inquiry into PNP
  Innovation Minister Allan Campbell says he'll be raising the idea of holding a public inquiry into the Provincial Nominee Program with the ...
• Committee rejects taxes-in pricing
  After hearing from businesses and Islanders, the what- you-see-is-what-you-pay legislation introduced last fall is being rejected. The Standing ...
• McQuaid, MacMillan to return PNP funds
  Two former deputy ministers who accessed funds from the Provincial Nominee Program are giving the money back. Premier Robert Ghiz said he called ...
• PNP director, minister broke, sidestepped rules: report
  CHARLOTTETOWN - A lack of oversight over senior bureaucrats who made major changes to the Provincial Nominee Program led to a number of ...
• Island residents ready to continue fight against...
  CHARLOTTETOWN - Local residents and politicians upset by a recent Industry Canada ruling to allow Rogers to build a cell tower close to their ...
• P.E.I. business groups blast tax-inclusive pricing idea
  Retailers and businesses blasted an MLA's idea to include taxes in the total ticket price of goods sold on P.E.I. Tuesday. Vernon River-Stratford ...
• Polar Foods collapse prompts questions on government...
  CHARLOTTETOWN - The question of whether provincial Crown corporations should be more heavily scrutinized by a legislative committee was up for ...
• Maritime Electric to plead case for higher rates at...
  CHARLOTTETOWN - Maritime Electric will plead its case today for an increase in electricity rates at a public hearing of the Island Regulatory and ...
• Master Packaging begins $19 million expansion
  BORDEN - Despite the current slowdown in the global economy, the Irving-owned box plant in Borden is expanding and will create up to 25 new jobs. ...
• Probe widens into PNP
  The provinces auditor general wants to hear from immigrants who invested in P.E.I. companies through the Provincial Nominee Program. Colin ...