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Severe Permanent Disability Benefit
If you have a severe permanent disability that prevents you from participating in post-secondary studies and the labour force for the rest of your life, you may be able to have your student loans cancelled through the Severe Permanent Disability Benefit. What is a severe...
Support for Victims
The following is a list of supports for victims: Information for Women and Men in an Abusive Relationship This guide contains information for individuals who identify as a victim, or as someone whose behaviour is abusive, or both. It also contains valuable support information for...
Plenty of opportunities awaited couple back home
Justin and Line Arsenault kept a long distance relationship going between Prince Edward Island and Western Canada for eight years, but now they’re back to raise a family and build careers in their hometown. The pair met at age 15 in Abram-Village but were separated when Justin...
Apprenticeship Program
Apprenticeship training combines on-the-job training with classroom training and results in a professional certification in a designated skilled trade. A summary of the training is detailed below and for more information visit: Apprenticeship Training What is the Apprenticeship...
Medical Residency Interest Relief Program
Island students completing a medical residency can apply to stop paying their PEI provincial student loan. If approved, their balance will be set to “non-repayment” status until they complete their residency program. The federal portion of your student loan is not eligible for...
Survey: Would you move back to PEI?
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...
Big things come from small packaging
When White Gables’ new product, Island Potato Soap, became so successful that the company couldn’t keep up with packaging demand, co-owner Pieter Ijsselstein knew he needed help. Fortunately help came in the form of Tremploy, a non-profit organization that provides adults with...
Rural Enhancement Employment Program
Applications for 2025-26 are now being accepted. The purpose of the Rural Enhancement Employment Program (REEP) is to increase and stimulate economic activity and business development among PEI rural businesses, while increasing long-term rural-based employment opportunities by...
PEI’s Famous Five inspire positive action toward gender equality in politics
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, “...