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• Report on schools coming today
  A report strongly expected to recommend closing a number of P.E.I.'s small schools will be released today by the Eastern School District and ...
• Bedeque man mistakenly billed for neighbour's power
  A Bedeque man was baffled a few weeks ago after he received a letter from Maritime Electric asking him to pay $1,100 for a mistake they made in ...
• PNP directors got bonuses of $19,000
  The top three directors of the Provincial Nominee Program were each paid bonuses of $19,000 and added to bonuses, overtime and travel paid to ...
• Senate trouble?
  A P.E.I. law expert believes Mike Duffy's appointment to P.E.I.'s Senate seat is unconstitutional. David Bulger has been teaching constitutional ...
• Sale of FoodTrust P.E.I. disappoints former chair
  The sale of FoodTrust P.E.I. to a private-sector company is disappointing because the company had become a successful producer of value-added ...
• Duffy's call to Senate catches some by surprise
  Well-known political journalist Mike Duffy was named to P.E.I.s vacant Senate seat in the single largest volley of Senate appointments in ...
• Many eye Senate seat: Shea
  At least 15 Islanders are lobbying for P.E.I.s vacant Senate seat in Ottawa and have approached federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea for her ...
• Tories angle for Senate appointment
  P.E.I.s vacant Senate seat has a number of high-profile Island Tories playing all their political cards in Ottawa this week as Prime Minister ...
• Ministers look for federal cash for projects
  P.E.I.s minister responsible for infrastructure will join her counterparts from across the country to meet federal Transport Minister John Baird ...
• IRAC drops rent hike
  Rents on P.E.I. will not go up as much as they were slated to in January thanks to a decision Thursday by the Island Regulatory and Appeals ...
• P.E.I. MPs confident Liberals on their way to stability
  The political upheaval in Ottawa took yet another unexpected turn with Bob Raes bow out of the leadership race for the Liberal party Tuesday, but ...
• Province writes off beef plant's debt
  The Maritimes only federally inspected beef plant is no longer in the red thanks to a generous $14 million debt write-off by the province of ...
• 150 coalition supporters rally in Charlottetown
  The battle is not over for a Liberal-NDP coalition government, say Island supporters of the federal party coalition concept. About 150 Islanders ...
• Department releases nominee program bonus and trip...
  Almost $700,000 in immigrant money was paid out in bonuses and for multiple trips to Hong Kong and Dubai for employees of the Crown corporation ...
• Tourism minister says strategy for concerts coming soon
  Opposition MLA Mike Currie wants to know what the provinces plan for future concert investments will be, but Tourism Minister Valerie Docherty ...
• Minister to face public accounts commitee today
  CHARLOTTETOWN - Innovation Minister Richard Brown will be on the hot seat today when he appears before the province's public accounts committee ...
• Rock concert costs taxpayers $400,000
  The promoters of the rock show starring Alanis Morissette put their hands in taxpayers pockets and took out $400,000 to pay for a concert they ...
• Committee to scrutinize IRAC rate-setting policies
  The Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission's policies on oil and electricity pricing will soon be under review and scrutinized by a government ...
• Seniors' ambulance fees being eliminated
  Ambulance services for seniors will soon be free, the province announced Tuesday as part of its major overhaul of P.E.I.'s health-care system. ...
• Opposition left out of loop in health report: Crane
  CHARLOTTETOWN - Opposition Leader Olive Crane is fuming over the fact health-care stakeholders and media were briefed on the consultant's report ...
• Trudeau tells Island youth they must be active...
  It could easily have been called Trudeaumania in Charlottetown Saturday when almost 1,000 Islanders came out to see the son of one of Canadas ...
• MLA advocates stickers with final price
  Budgeting for shopping trips might soon become easier to tabulate if a proposed change in the provinces tax pricing law goes through. The ...
• Market plunge hits P.E.I. finances
  The volatile financial market has plunged the province into a deeper deficit than earlier projected this year, leaving P.E.I. now almost $50 ...
• Ghiz comes under fire for wind energy development plan
  CHARLOTTETON - The government's recently announced $1-billion plan for wind energy development came under fire during the opening question period ...
• Audit says pork plant may have accessed more PNP...
  P.E.I.'s failed pork-processing plant accessed money from the Provincial Nominee Program and may have accessed more than the rules allowed, ...
• UPEI down $10 million due to falling money markets
  The University of Prince Edward Island has suffered about $10 million in investment losses due to the falling financial markets. Both UPEIs ...
• Banning cellphones said bad for business
  CHARLOTTETOWN--If the province bans the use of hand-held cellphones while driving, a local woman says her business will close. Robbie Keen, ...
• Diversion of patients from QEH ended this morning at...
  A diversion of some patients arriving by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital ended this morning at 8 a.m. as more cute beds became ...
• West Prince hospital decision almost made: premier
  The province's plan for health-care delivery in West Prince is on the verge of being decided, but no matter what that decision is someone will be ...
• Ballot boxes opened today
  Every vote cast in Egmont on election night last week will be carefully reviewed again today by a Supreme Court justice and a support team in ...