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He found a business opportunity in affordable medicines
2017-12-29
Creating jobs for Islanders -, Mohammed Moin remembers the brush with illness that set him on a path to founding bioscience company Somru BioActives. “I was in my last year in high school - at home in Bangladesh - when my father became seriously ill with esophageal cancer,” Moin said. “The...
Harvest and Prosper offers experience ‘in the field’
2017-10-27
Creating jobs for Islanders -, When Lorne Valley Ranch developed a new crop - high-bush blueberries - co-owner Phil Jennings IV said the province's Harvest and Prosper program helped fill jobs they were having a hard time filling. “We had done different things trying to find help, putting ads...
She’s in the worker’s corner
2017-10-18
Creating jobs for Islanders - , Maureen Peters likes a challenge, and she gets plenty in her role as Prince Edward Island’s worker advisor. She acts as a free legal service – funded by employers -- that helps injured workers and their families navigate the Worker’s Compensation Board (WCB) appeals...
WorkPEI connects employers with the talent they need
2017-10-06
Creating jobs for Islanders -, When Road Trax -- a Kensington company that provides maintenance for the trucking industry – needed to fill a long-standing vacancy, staff turned to WorkPEI. Road Trax had been advertising for four months to fill a mechanics position, with no success. But shortly...
Arts grants enrich province’s cultural life
2017-04-21
Anyone who has visited Charlottetown is likely familiar with the work of sculptor Ahmon Katz. The Three Leaves sculpture, which stands prominently at the entrance to the city by the Charlottetown Events Centre, and the Great Blue Heron on the corner of Queen and Water Street in Charlottetown are a...
Bringing history home
2017-02-23
Stacy MacInnis remembers bundling up on cold winter mornings when he was five years old and going next door with his mother to stoke the coal stove for waiting passengers at the Elliott family’s train station in Pleasant Valley. Fast forward more than 50 years – it’s a summer day and MacInnis, now...
Celebrating 50 years of fun in the snow!
2017-01-26
Erin Curley considers Brookvale Winter Activity Park home – and not just because she’s skied there since she was three years old. What is now Brookvale sits on land that was once owned by the Curley family. Erin says her grandmother Rose Curley always wanted her community to thrive. So in 1966, Mrs...