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Some of the neighbours of the Community Outreach Centre at its new location on Park Street say they are worried. The centre has been operating at its new location for about a month. Logan MacLean • The Guardian

Safety concerns continue for Charlottetown residents near relocated outreach centre, but some see improvement

Some of the Community Outreach Centre’s new neighbours are not happy. When Premier Dennis King’s government announced it would move the Community Outreach Centre to Park Street, residents in the area were not consulted, they say. Now, the centre ...

Updated 18 minutes ago |4 min read

Special Report

P.E.I. migrant worker speaks out, part 2: Worker assisted by Charlottetown group following workplace sexual harassment complaints

Updated 1 hour ago |9 min read

Lude Meng, a temporary foreign worker in Prince Edward Island, made a complaint about sexual harassment in the workplace and was abruptly laid off last year, jeopardizing the life she was building for herself and her daughter in P.E.I. She then reached out to the Charlottetown-based Cooper Institute for assistance. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

Proposed bylaw looks to ban harm reduction tools in specific locations of Charlottetown

Updated 20 hours ago |4 min read

Coun. Trevor MacKinnon listens to debate at the April. 9 Charlottetown council meeting. Logan MacLean • The Guardian

NDP P.E.I. renews term of leader Michelle Neill

Updated 22 hours ago |4 min read

P.E.I. senior struggles to find a dentist

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Special Report

P.E.I. migrant worker speaks out, part 1: Temporary foreign worker files complaint about sexual harassment in the workplace

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Opinion

The King Tide, directed by Christian Sparkes and filmed primarily in Keels, N.L. will be released this week.

LETTER: Keels was featured in 'The King Tide,' but community has important history in N.L.

The movie 'The King Tide' is now showing in a theatre in St John's. It was filmed in Keels, Bonavista Bay, in 2022. Keels is about a 30-minute drive from Bonavista. Why Keels was chosen as the site for the film, I don't know. However, it has its own ...

Updated 48 minutes ago |3 min read

JOHN DeMONT: Being young deserves to be golden

Updated 15 hours ago |6 min read

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Citadel High student Maria Ossa, has her photo taken following her graduation ceremony at the school in Halifax Thursday June 24, 2021.

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Updated 21 hours ago |4 min read

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Updated 16 hours ago |4 min read

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Updated 18 hours ago |4 min read

Business

Wenda Pitre, who, along with her husband Glenn, has been running the Charlottetown Flea Market for a number of years. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

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Islanders flock to Charlottetown Flea Market for affordable finds amid rising costs

The Charlottetown Flea Market has returned to the Simmons Sports Centre this year, and organizers note a noticeable increase in attendance compared to last year, with rising costs and inflation likely being contributing factors. Wenda Pitre, who, ...

Updated 18 hours ago |7 min read

Ottawa to fund seven P.E.I. small craft harbour projects

Updated a day ago |1 min read

Ottawa is funding seven repair and maintenance project in seven P.E.I. small craft harbours as part of the 2022 budget.

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: The missed opportunity of the Loblaw boycott

Updated 20 hours ago |3 min read

An Atlantic Superstore in Dartmouth January 18,2024.
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Rapid Housing work continues in Sydney

Updated 18 hours ago |2 min read

N.L. socioeconomic tracking software firm gets government funding to aid in expansion

Updated 19 hours ago |2 min read

AMD, Super Micro tumble as earnings fall short of lofty AI expectations

Updated 1 minutes ago |2 min read

Lifestyles

'In many ways, this is a mystery for book readers, literally a page-turner,' writes Joan Sullivan of Chris Ryan's "Ladies in the Lane: A Crime Novel". — Tom Hermans/Unsplash

JOAN SULLIVAN: New cookbook by Bobbi Pike offers tips on how food can be comfort without guilt

Healthy Comfort Foods: Gluten-free, diabetic-friendly, and keto recipes by Bobbi Pike (with Geoff Pike) Boulder Books $34.95, 302 pages Organized into a menu of nibbles, side dishes, entrées, and sweets and treats, the contents are assembled across ...

Updated 1 hour ago |5 min read

Sand, surf and safety: Lifeguard shortage improving in Cape Breton

Updated 4 hours ago |7 min read

Lifeguard Bennett MacIntyre is seen at Mira Gut beach in this 2022 file photo. After struggling the past few years to hire enough lifeguards to patrol the province’s beaches, Lifesaving Society of Nova Scotia special projects director Paul D’Eon says the situation has improved this year. Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post

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Updated 11 hours ago |2 min read

Newcomers to Halifax look for comfort food to remind them of home

Updated 17 hours ago |5 min read

N.B. woman 'Set for Life' after unknowingly winning Atlantic Lottery top prize

Updated 18 hours ago |3 min read

ECMAs returning to St. John's in 2025

Updated 21 hours ago |2 min read

Sports

Kensington Monaghan Farms Wild forward Lucas Thibeau, 22, tracks the play during the P.E.I. major under-18 male hockey championship series against the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers Knights at MacLauchlan Arena in Charlottetown. Thibeau recorded three points in the Wild’s five games at the 2024 Telus Cup Canadian under-18 hockey championship in Membertou, N.S., last week. - Jason Simmonds/SaltWire

Kensington Wild head coach proud of way team competed at Telus Cup

The opportunity to wear the Kensington Monaghan Farms Wild jersey at the 2024 Telus Cup provided a surreal moment for forward Lucas Thibeau. “I have a stick in my room signed by all the Wild players back in 2015,” the 17-year-old Thibeau told ...

Updated 20 hours ago |5 min read

MHL PLAYOFFS: Suspension handed to Caps' Duquette

Updated 18 hours ago |2 min read

P.E.I.'s Holland Hurricanes name baseball head coach

Updated a day ago |3 min read

The Holland Hurricanes of the Atlantic Collegiate Baseball Association (ACBA) have named Tyler Johnston of Cardigan, P.E.I., as new head coach. The Hurricanes begin regular-season play in early September. Holland College • Special to The Guardian

MHL PLAYOFFS: P.E.I.'s Western Capitals in deep hole vs. Miramichi Timberwolves

Updated a day ago |4 min read

Heartbreaking end for Kensington Vipers at Don Johnson Memorial Cup

Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |2 min read

P.E.I.'s Kensington Vipers advance to Don Johnson Memorial Cup final

Updated Apr. 28, 2024 |2 min read

Canada

The Town of Mahone Bay is receiving a $1 million grant to upgrade its swimming pool. Facebook Photo

Province provides grants for Lunenburg County community infrastructure repairs and upgrades

A $1.8 million provincial grant is going towards Dynamite Trail Association to upgrade two popular Lunenburg County bridges, both more than 100 years old. The Town of Mahone Bay will see the Mushamush River Bridge and the Martins River Bridge undergo ...

Updated 16 hours ago |2 min read

Canada's long-delayed Trans Mountain oil pipeline set to start operations

Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

A drone view of holding tanks at Westridge Marine Terminal, the terminus of the Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada April 26, 2024.

Analysis-Port constraints for Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline may crimp oil exports

Updated 1 hour ago |4 min read

A drone view of three berths able to load vessels with oil is seen after their construction at Westridge Marine Terminal, the terminus of the Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, April 26, 2024.

Cape Breton police charge man after knife report at provincial building

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'I got nowhere else to go': N.L. government removes tents from 'tent city' over safety concerns, installs signs threatening to remove all

Updated 1 hour ago |9 min read

Many people in need but support for perinatal mental health not there, says N.L.’s only perinatal psychiatrist

Updated 2 hours ago |6 min read

World

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico attends a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium March 22, 2024.

Slovakia gives protection to man accused of running pro-Russian influence campaign, media say

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia has given temporary protection to a Ukrainian and Israeli citizen who is accused of running a pro-Russian influence campaign via a news website and is under Czech sanctions, Czech media reported. Czech newspaper Denik ...

Updated 29 minutes ago |2 min read

UK begins detaining migrants set to be deported to Rwanda

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People believed to be migrants, disembark from a British Border Force vessel as they arrive at the Port of Dover in Dover, Britain, April, 29, 2024.

Police move in to quell clashes at Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus protest

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Protesters in support of Palestinians in Gaza help one another get their eyes rinsed, at an encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 1, 2024.

Georgian lawmakers tussle in parliament after crack down on foreign agent protesters

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P.E.I. migrant worker speaks out, part 2: Worker assisted by Charlottetown group following workplace sexual harassment complaints

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Local

Safety concerns continue for Charlottetown residents near relocated outreach centre, but some see improvement

P.E.I. migrant worker speaks out, part 2: Worker assisted by Charlottetown group following workplace sexual harassment complaints

Proposed bylaw looks to ban harm reduction tools in specific locations of Charlottetown

NDP P.E.I. renews term of leader Michelle Neill

P.E.I. senior struggles to find a dentist

P.E.I. migrant worker speaks out, part 1: Temporary foreign worker files complaint about sexual harassment in the workplace

Opinion

LETTER: Keels was featured in 'The King Tide,' but community has important history in N.L.

JOHN DeMONT: Being young deserves to be golden

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: ‘Awaiting your reply’

COMMENTARY: Patients inform new map for health-care transformation, policy makers just need to listen

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

DAVID JOHNSON: Past decisions probably haunt federal Liberals

Business

Islanders flock to Charlottetown Flea Market for affordable finds amid rising costs

Ottawa to fund seven P.E.I. small craft harbour projects

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: The missed opportunity of the Loblaw boycott

Rapid Housing work continues in Sydney

N.L. socioeconomic tracking software firm gets government funding to aid in expansion

AMD, Super Micro tumble as earnings fall short of lofty AI expectations

Lifestyles

JOAN SULLIVAN: New cookbook by Bobbi Pike offers tips on how food can be comfort without guilt

Sand, surf and safety: Lifeguard shortage improving in Cape Breton

Daily horoscope for May. 01, 2024

Newcomers to Halifax look for comfort food to remind them of home

N.B. woman 'Set for Life' after unknowingly winning Atlantic Lottery top prize

ECMAs returning to St. John's in 2025

Sports

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MHL PLAYOFFS: Suspension handed to Caps' Duquette

P.E.I.'s Holland Hurricanes name baseball head coach

MHL PLAYOFFS: P.E.I.'s Western Capitals in deep hole vs. Miramichi Timberwolves

Heartbreaking end for Kensington Vipers at Don Johnson Memorial Cup

P.E.I.'s Kensington Vipers advance to Don Johnson Memorial Cup final

Canada

Province provides grants for Lunenburg County community infrastructure repairs and upgrades

Canada's long-delayed Trans Mountain oil pipeline set to start operations

Analysis-Port constraints for Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline may crimp oil exports

Cape Breton police charge man after knife report at provincial building

'I got nowhere else to go': N.L. government removes tents from 'tent city' over safety concerns, installs signs threatening to remove all

Many people in need but support for perinatal mental health not there, says N.L.’s only perinatal psychiatrist

World

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