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: Prince Edward Island
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.
B.C. and Ottawa reach $1.4-billion mental health and home care deal
Federal Health Minister Jane Philipott and B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake announced a 10-year, $1.4-billion agreement for better mental health and home care. Of that, $785.7 million will go to home care infrastructure and $654.7 million will go towards mental health initiatives.
Russell Wangersky: That shrinking feeling
It’s a numbers game – and not in the way you think. There’s been plenty of talk over the year about declines in this province’s population, legitimate hand-wringing over an aging population that doesn’t have a strong cohort of young people coming up to pay taxes and fill jobs as an ever-larger portion of residents totter into retirement.
Repay hundreds of millions in taxes, Ottawa tells Atlantic provinces
Ottawa is asking all four Atlantic provinces to repay hundreds of millions of dollars in harmonized sales tax revenues the finance department says it overpaid to the region. The Guardian has learned Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland were notified in December that a re-calculation of HST revenues by the federal government was done and that the Atlantic provinces have been overpaid in HST revenues.
Autistic woman’s family notifies P.E.I. government of lawsuit in bizarre case
The family of an autistic woman whose father was wrongly accused of sexually assaulting has served notice it will sue the P.E.I. government for how it handled the bizarre case. In a notice of litigation addressed to the provincial Justice Department, the parents say they intend to file a statement of claim in the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island after 90 days.
McCarville, Mallett, MacPhee join Canadian women’s curling championship field
Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville, Prince Edward Island’s Robyn MacPhee and B.C.’s Marla Mallett have won their way into the Canadian women’s curling championship field. Mallett downed Diane Gushulak 6-3 in the B.C. provincial women’s final Sunday night in Duncan, B.C. MacPhee stole singles in the ninth and 10th ends to beat Veronica Smith 7-5 in the P.E.I. final in Summerside.
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.
Winter storm warnings issued in Atlantic Canada, up to 40 centimetres expected
The Atlantic provinces are bracing for a winter wallop that could bring up to 40 centimetres of snow to parts of the region. Winter storm warnings have been issued for Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and for parts of eastern New Brunswick and western Newfoundland.
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.
Regional Storm Update: Schools, roads, hockey cancelled: ‘It’s a corker’
Atlantic Canadians like newspaper publisher Paul MacNeill were hunkering down at home on Friday as a storm shut large parts of the region down. HALIFAX – Atlantic Canadians like newspaper publisher Paul MacNeill were hunkering down at home on Friday as a storm shut large parts of the region down.