Being my mom's medical proxy was heartbreaking, but I'd do it all over again | 'It's a pretty scary time': Oyster industry on edge after dermo found in Egmont Bay | Clinic in Charlottetown reminds Islanders to remember their helmets this summer
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Being my mom's medical proxy was heartbreaking, but I'd do it all over again; Lynn Paulin, left, and her mom, Cheryl Simmonds at her college graduation in 2015\.

Being my mom's medical proxy was heartbreaking, but I'd do it all over again

July 6 , 2025 at 05:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

Lynn Paulin didn't expect she'd be forced to make end-of-life medical decisions for her mom at just 32. But being there while her mom took her last breath allowed Paulin to pay back some of the same care she'd received all her life.
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'It's a pretty scary time': Oyster industry on edge after dermo found in Egmont Bay; Bob MacLeod is the president of the P\.E\.I\. Shellfish Association\.

'It's a pretty scary time': Oyster industry on edge after dermo found in Egmont Bay

July 5 , 2025 at 04:41:08 p.m. ADT • :

The president of the P.E.I. Shellfish Association says the oyster industry is rightfully concerned about the first case of dermo disease in P.E.I. But Bob MacLeod said there is no reason for panic.
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Clinic in Charlottetown reminds Islanders to remember their helmets this summer; Charlottetown Mayor Philip Brown, left, stopped by Kenneth Murnaghan's helmet-fitting clinic on Saturday\.

Clinic in Charlottetown reminds Islanders to remember their helmets this summer

July 6 , 2025 at 03:22:06 p.m. ADT • :

Islanders are being reminded to wear proper head protection while riding bicycles, skate boards and e-scooters, which were introduced to Charlottetown just a few years ago.
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Shania Twain Foundation donates $25K to western P.E.I. food bank before festival date; Singer Shania Twain, centre, rides a horse during the Calgary Stampede Parade in Calgary on Friday\. She acted as parade marshal for this year's event\.

Shania Twain Foundation donates $25K to western P.E.I. food bank before festival date

July 4 , 2025 at 04:42:27 p.m. ADT • :

Barb Ramsay-Desroches, the president of the board of directors for the West Prince Caring Cupboard, said the influx of cash will allow the organization to diversify the kinds of food items it can offer to clients.
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CFIA confirms Prince Edward Island's 1st case of dermo, in oysters from Egmont Bay; The oyster diseases dermo and MSX have now both been confirmed in oyster samples from P\.E\.I\., according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency\. Neither disease poses any risk to humans eating oysters, but they do cause increased mortality rates among the molluscs\.

CFIA confirms Prince Edward Island's 1st case of dermo, in oysters from Egmont Bay

July 4 , 2025 at 08:10:05 p.m. ADT • :

Canadian Food Inspection Agency lab tests have confirmed the presence of the highly damaging mollusc disease dermo in oysters from P.E.I.'s Egmont Bay. 
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18-year-old driver clocked at 155 km/h charged with flight from police, say P.E.I. RCMP; The RCMP's traffic services unit was conducting a speed enforcement operation on the Trans-Canada Highway in Cornwall on Monday when the driver sped past\.  

July 3 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

18-year-old driver clocked at 155 km/h charged with flight from police, say P.E.I. RCMP

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Summerside farm shuts strawberry U-pick after new fungal disease causes crop loss; Matthew Compton, owner of Compton's Farm Market and Berry Patch, stands in a four-acre field that has been damaged by a fungal pathogen called neopestalotiopsis, or Neo-P\.  

July 4 , 2025 at 05:23:09 p.m. ADT • :

Summerside farm shuts strawberry U-pick after new fungal disease causes crop loss

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Wyman's fined $80K for not maintaining tractor that killed longtime worker in eastern P.E.I.; The tragedy took place in September 2024 at a Wyman's blueberry field in the Lorne Valley area of eastern P\.E\.I\.  

July 3 , 2025 at 03:05:45 p.m. ADT • :

Wyman's fined $80K for not maintaining tractor that killed longtime worker in eastern P.E.I.

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Summerside gives preliminary approval to 17-lot mini home subdivision; The developer is asking the city to pay \$15,500 to extend Cardinal Street to the proposed subdivision's eastern boundary\. The city will pay that amount upon final subdivision approval\.  

July 3 , 2025 at 03:10:50 p.m. ADT • :

Summerside gives preliminary approval to 17-lot mini home subdivision

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PCH cancer patients must go to Charlottetown for treatment until July 10, says Health P.E.I.; Cancer staffing crunch means a summer of travel to Charlottetown for some Western P\.E\.I\. patients  

July 4 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. ADT • :

PCH cancer patients must go to Charlottetown for treatment until July 10, says Health P.E.I.

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