Lennox Island chief says moderate-livelihood lobster fishers will replace traps seized by DFO | Island farmers face uncertainty as planting season begins with trade tensions looming | Fewer of us are using Canada Post, but a strike will still bring pain to small businesses, says CFIB
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Lennox Island chief says moderate-livelihood lobster fishers will replace traps seized by DFO; Lennox Island First Nation Chief Darlene Bernard says conditions were too windy for fishermen to go out on the water off northern Prince Edward Island Tuesday, but vows they will be back out Wednesday to replace all of the traps seized by Fisheries and Oceans Canada officers\.

Lennox Island chief says moderate-livelihood lobster fishers will replace traps seized by DFO

May 20 , 2025 at 05:55:28 p.m. ADT • :

On Sunday, Fisheries and Oceans Canada confiscated traps from Lennox Island fishermen in Malpeque Bay. The agency says the traps were not authorized, but the First Nation says the seizure was illegal.
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Island farmers face uncertainty as planting season begins with trade tensions looming; P\.E\.I\. potato growers face market concerns, lower prices as planting gets underway

Island farmers face uncertainty as planting season begins with trade tensions looming

May 20 , 2025 at 04:15:12 p.m. ADT • :

As planting season gets underway for many potato farmers on Prince Edward Island, growers say they are facing an unusual level of uncertainty this year, for reasons ranging from rising costs to global trade tensions.
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Fewer of us are using Canada Post, but a strike will still bring pain to small businesses, says CFIB; A woman with long brown hair, in a red blazer, speaks with a man in glasses wearing a black blazer and white and blue open-necked shirt\.

Fewer of us are using Canada Post, but a strike will still bring pain to small businesses, says CFIB

May 20 , 2025 at 05:28:46 p.m. ADT • :

Postal workers could go on strike as early as midnight on Friday, and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says the impact on small business will be significant. Louise Martin of CBC News: Compass spoke with Frederic Gionet, a Moncton-based senior policy analyst with the CFIB.

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P.E.I. truck driver to continue working with ankle monitor after sexually assaulting child; Mitchell John Millar leaves court on April 23 after his lawyer and the Crown presented the house arrest arrangement to Judge Krista MacKay\.

P.E.I. truck driver to continue working with ankle monitor after sexually assaulting child

May 20 , 2025 at 01:25:05 p.m. ADT • :

A Charlottetown man will spend the next two years under house arrest after sexually assaulting a child, but the terms of the sentence will let him continue working as a truck driver around the Maritimes to support his family.
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New immigration minister must address low Atlantic Canada retention rates, expert says; Lena Metlege Diab, the Liberal MP for Halifax West, was recently appointed as the minister responsible for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada\.

New immigration minister must address low Atlantic Canada retention rates, expert says

May 20 , 2025 at 03:00:00 p.m. ADT • :

An economist in New Brunswick says Canada's new immigration minister needs to consider how to keep immigrants in Atlantic Canada, a region that has historically struggled to convince newcomers they should stay for more than a year or two.
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Lennox Island says it will defend treaty rights after DFO seizes lobster traps; Lennox Island First Nation is calling on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to respect Mi'kmaw rights, following the seizure of lobster traps by DFO officers from the First Nation's treaty-protected fishery in Malpeque, P\.E\.I\., and Alberton, P\.E\.I\., on Sunday\.  

May 19 , 2025 at 11:23:02 a.m. ADT • :

Lennox Island says it will defend treaty rights after DFO seizes lobster traps

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P.E.I. politicians call on Ottawa to reduce bridge, ferry tolls by Canada Day; P\.E\.I\. MP, premier call for bridge and ferry toll cut by Canada Day  

May 20 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

P.E.I. politicians call on Ottawa to reduce bridge, ferry tolls by Canada Day

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P.E.I. man, left debilitated after vaccine, misses out on deadline for compensation; Kent Gillespie says the pain in his back started not long after his first COVID shot in 2021\. His legs gave out too\.  

May 16 , 2025 at 06:00:38 a.m. ADT • :

P.E.I. man, left debilitated after vaccine, misses out on deadline for compensation

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P.E.I.'s Filipino community to host dragon boat festival in Charlottetown this summer; From left, Janet Jerez Bernabe and Vladimir Iscala are part of the organizing committee for the Charlottetown Dragon Boat Festival\.  

May 20 , 2025 at 01:46:23 p.m. ADT • :

P.E.I.'s Filipino community to host dragon boat festival in Charlottetown this summer

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How Mi'kmaw communities are moving toward self-regulation in commercial elver fishery; Baby eels, also known as elvers, swim in a tank after being caught in the Penobscot River on May 15, 2021, in Brewer, Maine\. After 50 per cent of the overall elvers quota was re-allocated to First Nations fishers in Atlantic Canada, some First Nations groups are working to regulate their fisheries\.  

May 20 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

How Mi'kmaw communities are moving toward self-regulation in commercial elver fishery

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