P.E.I. artists bring home 4 East Coast Music Awards | P.E.I. Humane Society's surgical suite back on track after Canadian providers found | Easter Seals P.E.I. school tour beat last year's total by $13K, and it's not too late to give
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P.E.I. artists bring home 4 East Coast Music Awards; Vishtèn Connexions performs during a Music P\.E\.I\. Week showcase in March\.

P.E.I. artists bring home 4 East Coast Music Awards

May 11 , 2025 at 04:34:46 p.m. ADT • :

P.E.I. artists are bringing home a handful of East Coast Music Awards from the 37th annual award gala held Sunday. 
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P.E.I. Humane Society's surgical suite back on track after Canadian providers found; The P\.E\.I\. Humane Society is building a new facility that is nearly three times the size of the current shelter\. It incorporates 'fear-free elements' and will include an on-site surgical suite\.

P.E.I. Humane Society's surgical suite back on track after Canadian providers found

May 11 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

Plans for the P.E.I. Humane Society's new surgical suite are back on track after the non-profit found new Canadian sources to outfit its under-construction building.
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Easter Seals P.E.I. school tour beat last year's total by $13K, and it's not too late to give; The P\.E\.I\. Easter Seals Ambassador's School Tour has concluded, after Remi Dean \(centre\) visited 62 schools across P\.E\.I\. this spring\.

Easter Seals P.E.I. school tour beat last year's total by $13K, and it's not too late to give

May 11 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

The 2025 Easter Seals Ambassador's School Tour has come to an end, raising over $61,000 for the P.E.I. branch of the charity, which is $13,000 more than last year's fundraiser did.
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More P.E.I. students being trained to save lives, thanks to mandatory CPR and defibrillator training; Two clasped hands are shown pressing down on the chest of a plastic dummy used to train people in cardiopulmonary resuscitation\.

More P.E.I. students being trained to save lives, thanks to mandatory CPR and defibrillator training

May 11 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

Teachers across Prince Edward Island are now trained to teach CPR and automated external defibrillator skills to Grade 10 students in English schools and Grade 9 students in French schools. That means about 1,700 teens each year will get life-saving training. It's an initiative by a charity called the Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation. CBC's Tony Davis has more.
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P.E.I.'s spring vegetation presents opportunity for foragers, says biologist; Fiddleheads are one of the plants foragers can find on P\.E\.I\. in the springtime, says MacQuarrie\.

P.E.I.'s spring vegetation presents opportunity for foragers, says biologist

May 10 , 2025 at 03:39:42 p.m. ADT • :

Springtime is a great time of year to forage for local plants and vegetation, says Kate MacQuarrie, a naturalist and biologist on Prince Edward Island. 
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Staff in Atlantic Canada among 1,300 affected by announced CRA job cuts; The Canada Revenue Agency says it is not renewing the contracts of around 1,300 term employees across Canada\.  

May 7 , 2025 at 05:35:00 p.m. ADT • :

Staff in Atlantic Canada among 1,300 affected by announced CRA job cuts

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2023 touching incident involving Craswell was at West Kent School, education minister says; West Kent Elementary School, shown in a 2021 file photo, was the scene of allegations involving Matthew Craswell in June 2023, P\.E\.I\.'s education minister told the legislature Friday\.  

May 9 , 2025 at 04:47:12 p.m. ADT • :

2023 touching incident involving Craswell was at West Kent School, education minister says

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P.E.I. chef Ilona Daniel brings Island flavours to Top Chef U.S. as guest judge; Chef Ilona Daniel says it was a 'dream come true' for her to be invited to be a guest judge on Top Chef U\.S\., where she had the chance to showcase Prince Edward Island's culinary scene\.  

May 10 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

P.E.I. chef Ilona Daniel brings Island flavours to Top Chef U.S. as guest judge

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PCs broke 2020 promise to require P.E.I. school boards to report sexual misconduct: Greens; Hundreds of students and parents took to the streets of Charlottetown in 2021 to protest that their complaints about sexual harassment in Island schools weren't being taken seriously\.  

May 9 , 2025 at 07:57:27 p.m. ADT • :

PCs broke 2020 promise to require P.E.I. school boards to report sexual misconduct: Greens

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Coverage of hockey players' trial could retraumatize survivors, says P.E.I. advocate; Five former Canadian world junior hockey players have all pleaded not guilty in a sexual assault trial underway in London, Ont\. Reading and hearing the coverage may be difficult for people who have experienced sexual assault, says a P\.E\.I\. advocate\.  

May 8 , 2025 at 02:57:16 p.m. ADT • :

Coverage of hockey players' trial could retraumatize survivors, says P.E.I. advocate

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