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While the exterior of the building is nearing completion, significant interior work, as well as the parking area, need to be completed before O’Leary’s new cannabis store opens for business. Provincial and town officials confirm the building will not be ready to serve customers on October 17, the date when cannabis use becomes legal in Canada.

Cannabis rules: what to expect in P.E.I.

Jon Keefe shows off one of the squish presses and other cannabis consumption paraphernalia he sells at the Dabber Hashery, a specialty shop in downtown St. John’s, N.L. Keefe had initially planned to obtain a licence to sell cannabis products, but abandoned that enterprise when it became clear the eight-per-cent margin paid to cannabis retailers in Newfoundland and Labrador didn’t make for a strong business case for him and his partners.

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Annie MacEachern of Charlottetown, P.E.I., who consumes cannabis for medicinal purposes, says legalization of the drug is just the beginning. She says advocates need to continue pushing to get edibles and concentrates on the market.

From pop culture to pot culture: Atlantic Canadian cannabis ...

Marijuana edibles are an alternative way to ingest cannabis.

University of Denver prof says day-to-day life won't change much after ...

Scott MacIntosh, communications manager with the Halifax Mooseheads, said the Mooseheads and the entire CHL have formed a partnership with Health Canada and will be rolling out an awareness campaign on our social media channels throughout the season.

What should Atlantic Canada's sports leagues do about legal marijuana?

The Cannabis NB location in Sackville, N.B.

Cannabis rules: what to expect in New Brunswick

O’Leary school staff asked to watch for suspicious man

Morgan Gaudet, a former resident of Heritage Trailer Park, is looking forward to settling down in her mini home in a new mobile home park after learning that Heritage Trailer Park was closing at the end of November.

Residents of Summerside's Heritage Trailer Park relocating, as ...

Driver strikes pole coming off P.E.I.'s Confederation Bridge

Eddie Hackett can’t help but smile when he looks at a photo of his husband, Rey Roque Cunanan, who lives in the Philippines.

P.E.I. man fighting to bring husband to Canada

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A new provincial program offers to help first-time homebuyers with their down payment.

First-time Island buyers rejoice

Published a day ago

Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy executive director Dayle Acorn, right, congratulates P.E.I.’s Ray Murphy on being honoured with this year’s Pillar of Pharmacy award during a reception and dinner at Murphy’s Community Centre on Tuesday, Oct. 9.

P.E.I.'s Ray Murphy receives Pillar of Pharmacy award

Published Oct 13, 2018 at noon

Six events in Wellington area during Co-op and Small Business Week, Oct. 14-20

Published Oct 13, 2018 at 9 a.m.

Greg Butler, owner of Christmas Discounters, holds one of the store’s new products this year – an LED glowing fireplace. Butler has re-opened the seasonal store in the Charlottetown Mall, and by the end of the month is opening a new permanent, year-round store in Stratford.

New year-round store Stratford Discounters expected to open by the end of October

Published Oct 13, 2018 at 6 a.m.

Sean McGivern hammers the name of his new enterprise to the front door of a Tignish building where he will soon be hammer milling wheat, barley rye and spelt into flour. He’s leasing a Tignish Co-op building as the starting point for his new business.

Flour mill starting up in Tignish

The Journal Pioneer
Published Oct 08, 2018 at 12:33 p.m.

He plans to hammer mill wheat, barley, spelt and rye and will produce white, light and whole grain flour ...

Chef Jamie Power of the Blue Mussel Café received the People’s Choice award at the recent Taste Our Island ceremony, held recently at the Roving Feast at the Charlottetown Hotel. Chef Norman Day of the Dunes Café in Brackley Beach was the grand-prize winner.

The Dunes Café wins grand prize at Taste Our Island awards celebrating P.E.I. restaurants

The Journal Pioneer
Updated a day ago

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - The Dunes Cafe is the 2018 winner of the Taste Our Island award, presented recently at the Roving Feast at the Charlottetown Hotel. This prestigious culinary award was created by the P.E.I. Adapt Council and is presented ...

John Handrahan, right, surveys his trellis lines of apple trees with Tim Pearson and Nancy MacKay, co-owners of Red Shore Orchards, the company that did the planting and installed the trellises.

Blueberry grower building apple wall

The Journal Pioneer
Published Oct 06, 2018 at 1:58 p.m.

Clearly, his hope for a productive orchard rests largely on the Honey Crisps ...

Penny Walsh McGuire, executive director of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce, was advocating for small business tax cuts to 2.5 per cent in 2018 and to two per cent in 2019.

Temporary worker program needs fixing, say P.E.I. business people

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Published Oct 06, 2018 at 6:15 a.m.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - Many sectors on P.E.I. are scrambling to secure enough – and the right – workers during a strong economy, says the chief executive officer of Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce. Penny Walsh McGuire ...

Food Recall: Certain Sobeys brand packaged vegetable products

The Journal Pioneer
Updated Oct 05, 2018 at 8:39 a.m.

Sobeys Inc. is recalling certain Sobeys brand packaged vegetable products from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described in the chart ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a national recall for frozen chicken fries sold by Loblaw Companies Ltd.

Loblaw chicken fries recalled due to risk of salmonella

The Journal Pioneer
Published Oct 02, 2018 at 6:25 p.m.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued a national recall for frozen chicken fries sold by Loblaw Companies Ltd., which owns Atlantic Superstores in P.E.I. The CFIA says the chicken fries pose a risk of salmonella ...

In this May 1, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Facebook says it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts. In a blog post, Friday, Sept. 28, the company says hackers exploited its "View As" feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to someone else. Facebook says it has taken steps to fix the security problem and alerted law enforcement.

Facebook hit with class-action lawsuit in Canada after massive security breach

The Canadian Press
Updated Oct 01, 2018 at 5:39 p.m.

TORONTO - A class-action lawsuit has been proposed in Canada against Facebook following a security breach that put the accounts of tens of millions of users at risk. The social media company announced last week that about 50 million user ...

Take the time to plan before taking the step to home ownership.

Preparing for homeownership

Terrence McEachern
Published Oct 01, 2018 at 3:47 p.m.

The affordability of rental units and new homes can be a challenge for many in Atlantic Canada, especially in areas where the costs of both is on the rise. Even so, there comes a point where renters leave that market and move into ...

The lowdown on down payments

Chris Shannon
Published Oct 01, 2018 at 3:41 p.m.

The time it could take millennials today to raise the minimum down payment required, on average, for a home in some major markets is downright scary. That’s according to a recent nationwide survey by real estate website Point2Homes, ...

James Van Toever, left, and Robert van Waarden, right, of Red Island Cider, talk about the business with Chris Palmer, minister of economic development, at Thursday’s funding announcement.

P.E.I. government funds 10 Island companies with $25K each

Terrence McEachern
Published Sep 28, 2018 at 5:42 p.m.

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - After spending 20 years off the Island, longtime friends James Van Toever and Robert van Waarden have returned to P.E.I. as business partners and are hoping to have their new craft apple cider in bars by ...