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Cooking to Quit classes offer tasty, healthy alternatives to smoking
2018-11-30
Many people who smoke are looking for a way to quit. A new program from the Canadian Cancer Society aims to help people replace their bad habit with some healthy habits.
The Cooking to Quit program, launching February 2019 in Stratford and Summerside, provides smokers with training in cooking and...
Addressing food security with fermented food
2018-11-23
With the early arrival of winter, gardening is a faded memory for most Islanders. The tradition of pickling the harvest is a resourceful way to keep fruits and vegetable into the colder months. A lesser-known preserving method is fermentation and it's gaining attention thanks to the PEI Food...
Saving lives and reducing risk through proper antibiotic use
2018-11-13
Antibiotics are one of medicine’s most powerful tools – when used properly.
Sarah Lutes and Dr. Greg German are working to make sure these important drugs don’t lose their power to cure.
Lutes, an antimicrobial pharmacist, and German, an MD and medical microbiologist, are hoping to raise...
PEI's Club Red Productions hits LA's Red Carpet
2018-11-09
After an evening of networking and celebrating on the roof of the West Hollywood Hotel, Prince Edward Island filmmaker Jenna MacMillan was rushing to catch a flight to the Cabo International Film Festival.
“It was amazing,” she says enthusiastically about the Scripted Summit Industry Conference...
Encouraging full lives and independence for survivors of stroke
2018-11-06
There are 4,500 Islanders living with the effects of a stroke. The professionals in PEI's Organized Stroke Care Program are working to make sure a patient’s life, post-stroke, is as full and independent as possible.
“Our role here is to ensure there is a compassionate, interdisciplinary approach...
PEI’s Famous Five inspire positive action toward gender equality in politics
2018-11-02
Emma Drake gets the lesson to be learned from the success of PEI’s Famous Five. It is a lesson about recognizing the need to do better and not accepting the status quo when it comes to women in leadership.
“They should not be the exception when it comes to women in leadership, “ said Drake, a...