Beginning with National Aboriginal Day, and ending with Canada day, Celebrate Canada is a yearly eleven-day celebration that this year will take place from June 21 to July 1. Each year many different organizations plan events to celebrate specific days during Celebrate Canada. Those events assist those who attend to discover and appreciate the wealth and diversity of Canadian society.
Category: Charlottetown, PE
PC Association of P.E.I. holds town hall meeting to tap into concerns
Charlottetown’s Mary Lou Griffin-Jenkins finds the Opposition’s ongoing grilling of government on issues from proposed school closures to e-gaming to be praiseworthy. Griffin-Jenkins was among a couple dozen people attending a town hall meeting Tuesday night, sponsored by the Charlottetown Area Districts of the PC Association of P.E.I. Griffin-Jenkins became a member of the PC Party two years ago.
Messy weather for parts of P.E.I. today
Environment Canada is forecasting a messy day for Charlottetown and parts of P.E.I. on Sunday with 5 cm of snow and high winds. With high winds and blowing snow, Islanders can expect a messy day of weather in parts of the province on Sunday.
Winter smack puts school on delay
In a petulant display of seasonal rivalry, winter has struck back against any hint of spring with a fridged smackdown of its own on P.E.I. this morning. While snowfall amounts overnight are light, ripping west northwest winds gusting to 50 combine with a temperature of -10C to give a feel-like cold blast of around -19.
As PEI pushes for Confederation honour, New Brunswick says it deserves more credit
As Canada 150 celebrations roll across the country, a veteran Liberal MP and a new Prince Edward Island senator are pushing to get Charlottetown officially declared the “birthplace of Confederation” – but another Maritime province says PEI is hogging the spotlight. Charlottetown’s claim to Confederation fame stems from a conference the city hosted in 1864 in which delegates from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec decided to unite their colonies into a single nation.
Head out early for ice scraping
A medium layer of ice is covering windows of cars parked outside today, so head out a bit early for some serious scraping. TEMPERATURE: Rising from around -9C in Summerside, -6 in Charlottetown up to -3 by noon, then dropping to -4 in the afternoon Below is a live-stream camera view courtesy of Confederation Bridge to give a sense of weather conditions at that location.
A gentle winter day with flurries
A few flurries are forecast to move off the Island by around 9 a.m. today, giving way to a peak of sun between mainly cloudy skies. Environment Canada is predicting the temperature might rise from about -7C early this morning to reach -5 for most of the day by the noon hour.
Ottawa earmarks half a billion dollars for Canada’s 150th anniversary
Fireworks light the sky during a Canada 150 event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. Fireworks light the sky during a Canada 150 event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016.
Wind warning issued for all of P.E.I.
Winds forecasted to gust at 90 km/h across province, while blowing snow expected in central and western eastern P.E.I. It is a windy Christmas Day on Prince Edward Island with northwest gusts expected to reach 90 km/h this afternoon. Environment Canada has issued a warning for the entire province that there is a significant risk of strong winds that could cause damage as well as blowing snow.