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Survey focuses on cannabis health and safety
2018-07-31
Islanders are invited to take a survey on their attitudes towards cannabis, their current use of cannabis, and their knowledge of lower-risk cannabis use.
The survey will be available online tomorrow (August 1) and throughout the month of August at www.princeedwardisland.ca/cannabissurvey . Any...
Energy efficiency rebates extended to small businesses
2018-07-30
Island businesses like Stretch Fitness of Summerside are getting extra help from the provincial government to save money on their energy costs and protect the environment.
Now available to the commercial sector, the efficiencyPEI Business Energy Rebates program partners with wholesalers to assist...
Go for Soda at Rock the Boat MusicFest! Designated Drivers can win free tickets!
2018-07-30
By choosing to “Go for Soda” at this year’s Rock the Boat MusicFest you could win free tickets compliments of the PEI Liquor Control Commission.
“Encouraging social responsibility is an important part of the Commission’s mandate,” said Heath MacDonald, Minister responsible for the PEI Liquor...
Provincial government investing in Island’s future leaders
2018-07-27
More Prince Edward Island students than ever before participated in a nationwide young leaders program supported by the provincial government.
SHAD – named for the Aurora, Ontario creek where the program began – is a summer enrichment program hosted by 16 different universities each July that...
New payment system available at golf courses for Chinese customers
2018-07-27
Investing in infrastructure -
The provincial government is encouraging Prince Edward Island tourism operators to add Motion Pay to their electronic payment offerings for Chinese clientele.
Motion Pay allows users of Alipay and WeChat Pay to use QR codes on their mobile phones to make purchases...
Sending her music across the Atlantic
2018-07-27
Jenni Roberge wants to introduce her music into the Iceland and Scandinavian markets, and she hopes a mystical, live-performance video shot in historic St. Mary’s Church will help her do just that.
The 28-year-old musician’s efforts will get a boost from a $5,000 grant from the provincial...
Grateful to return to a transformed PEI
2018-07-27
As a young girl growing up in Woodstock, PEI, just outside of O'Leary, Jillian Kilfoil witnessed sexism, homophobia, racism and intolerance. She says she was born a feminist. Her outspoken personality and actions like protesting her grade nine prom created a lot of tension living in the traditional...
The PEI Bag Company has a long history and a bright future
https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/the-pei-bag-company-has-a-long-history-and-a-bright-future
2018-07-26
Being in business requires adapting to market conditions, and making strategic and innovative investments. That’s why the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island are supporting the PEI Bag Company with investments for innovative equipment to help increase quality, quantity and efficiency...
NY state of mind? Nope - Prince Edward Island
2018-07-26
Growing up in a small rural community, it was being surrounded by strangers in a big city that made Penny Walsh McGuire yearn for home.
The Savage Harbour native -- and her high school boyfriend -turned-husband Ryan McGuire– left for the U.S. in 2004, she with a diploma from Holland College and a...
For this electrician, there was no place like home
2018-07-26
It was the beaches of eastern Prince Edward Island and getting back to his family that lured electrician Terry MacGreggor back home from out west.
MacGreggor, 30, moved back to his hometown of Souris to start his residential, commercial and industrial electrical company TMG Electrical with clients...