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Islanders invited to help craft poverty-reduction strategy
2017-11-21
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Islanders are invited to help create a collaborative strategy to further reduce poverty in the province.
The Poverty Reduction Advisory Council will provide input and advice on poverty reduction, focusing on housing, food, and employment. Islanders can apply to join...
Plan sets the stage for Island’s cultural future
2017-11-20
Creating jobs for Islanders -
A new five-year plan will help enrich Prince Edward Island’s cultural life and share it across Canada and around the world.
Cultivating Growth – A Five Year Action Plan for Culture and Creative Industries will bring together our cultural and creative industries to...
Addictions Awareness Week: 'Words matter'
2017-11-17
Supporting Island families -
One in 10 Canadians struggles with addiction and problematic substance use, and Prince Edward Island is not immune.
National Addictions Awareness Week (November 12-18) offers Islanders an opportunity to learn about the province’s addiction prevention, treatment, and...
Government invests in infrastructure to support Islanders
2017-11-17
Investing in infrastructure -
The provincial government will invest more than $134 million over the coming year in the priority areas of education, health, transportation and communications technology.
Prince Edward Island’s 2018-19 Capital Budget, presented by Finance Minister Allen Roach to the...
Community food security, education projects announced
2017-11-16
Community groups, schools, and early childhood centres will have more resources to teach Islanders about fresh, local food – including the students at Queen Elizabeth Elementary in Kensington.
Research coordinator Karen Murchison of the PEI Certified Organic Producers Cooperative says her group...
Province continues to invest in Island artists
2017-11-16
Artists from across Prince Edward Island continue to enrich the province’s cultural life with the help of provincial government grants.
Another $50,000 has been awarded in fall 2017 to 17 projects by established and emerging artists in film and media arts, music, theatre, crafts, visual arts,...
Diabetes Month: More supports available for Islanders
2017-11-15
Islanders living with diabetes – including pregnant women and those requiring complex care – have more support available than ever before.
With $160,000 in Health PEI’s 2017-18 operating budget, Island women who need more intensive diabetes management during their pregnancy can now get more...
New teachers, educators announced for Island classrooms
2017-11-15
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More than 40 new teachers and support educators will help meet the needs of Prince Edward Island’s growing, diversifying classrooms and prepare our students to be successful lifetime learners.
The provincial government will invest $2.8 million each year to hire 41...
Petroleum pricing - November 15, 2017
2017-11-15
The Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission approved the following petroleum pricing decisions, effective 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, November 15, 2017:
gasoline prices will decrease by 2.0 cents per litre (cpl); and
there will be no change in the price of furnace oil, stove oil or diesel at this...
Throne Speech charts path forward for growing, diversified province
2017-11-14
The Third Session of the Sixty-fifth General Assembly of Prince Edward Island opened today with the Speech from the Throne by the Honourable Antoinette Perry, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.
The speech outlined the successes of the first two-and-a-half years of government’s mandate...