Today's top headlines from CBC Prince Edward Island

Good evening, these are your top stories for Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
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P.E.I. social assistance payments going up by 5% in March

February 20 , 2024 at 03:23:23 p.m. AST • :

The P.E.I. government is spending $27 million to increase social assistance rates next month, according to a news release on Tuesday.

Inflation on P.E.I. now 2nd-lowest in Canada, with gas costing less and food more

February 20 , 2024 at 01:49:20 p.m. AST • :

Prince Edward Island's inflation rate in January 2024 was 1.6 per cent, down a full percentage point from December 2023, according to figures released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday.

History of Black women in P.E.I. now part of the province's school curriculum

February 20 , 2024 at 12:12:15 p.m. AST • :

Prince Edward Island students and teachers now have access to a new curriculum focused on the history of Black women in the province.

'However bad you think shingles is, it's way worse,' says P.E.I. woman

February 19 , 2024 at 06:00:00 a.m. AST • :

Eva O'Hanley's experience with the shingles virus began last year, but she's still experiencing lingering symptoms to this day. Meanwhile, a P.E.I. doctor wants the province to further lower the age of eligibility for Islanders to get a free vaccine.

I left Charlottetown for a rural homestead and it changed my idea of work-life balance and food

February 19 , 2024 at 05:00:00 a.m. AST • :

Erin Gillespie always wanted to start up a homestead someday. When opportunity knocked, the idea of moving her life and her business to the country seemed impossible at first.