An itch for travel and adventure led Nicholas Clements to western Canada, but a love of calm life and beautiful beaches brought him home to PEI. “I was born in Summerside but raised just outside O’Leary and really just lived that small-town Island lifestyle until I left to study...
Creating jobs for Islanders - People who have lived, studied, or visited Prince Edward Island often dream of moving here permanently. A new survey from the UPEI Institute of Island Studies will ask expats, students, and visitors why they left, what could encourage them to move...
Creating jobs for Islanders - Prince Edward Island has more than 150,000 residents for the first time in its history, meeting government’s population target for 2017. In a new national report, Statistics Canada estimates the province’s population to be 152,021 as of July 2017, an...
Creating jobs for Islanders - Lincoln Maskey believes hosting information technology (IT) professionals from across North America next month is a great opportunity to grow Prince Edward Island’s own industry. Charlottetown will be the site of Northeast PHP 2017 from August 9 to...
Youth Futures Council Member Nicole Mountain says she’s happy that government is following the council’s advice to provide more post-secondary education funding to high school students who volunteer in their communities. The Community Service Bursary has expanded to include grade...
Thirty-two community organizations across the Island are receiving support from the provincial government for projects that promote diversity and inclusion. The Gender, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (GEDI) and Community Enhancement Program provided a total of $650,000 in funding...
Twenty-seven community organizations are driving important sociocultural change and are empowering underrepresented people to enhance a sense of belonging for everyone in Island communities. The PEI Association for Community Living, along with 26 other community organizations...
Work and Study Hubs will be available to Islanders in 13 communities across Prince Edward Island. The hubs are a space where Islanders can bring their own device to access free, reliable internet to work and learn. “We know COVID-19 has greatly impacted the way Islanders work and...
The provincial government is asking Islanders living elsewhere to consider coming home. The month long campaign “Maybe You Should Come Home” https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/maybeyoushouldcomehome – after a lyric from Kinley Dowling’s song Golden Days – encourages Islanders...
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...