Students have a special day circled on the calendar this year. But it’s not the last day of school or even their end of year trip. It’s April 8, when a solar eclipse will be visible from Prince Edward Island. Meredith Cameron MacIsaac teaches Grade 5 at West Royalty Elementary...
Far too often, Islanders feel the effects and impacts from impaired driving. On December 7, the Province is joining Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD Canada) and RCMP to say no to impaired driving. As part of MADD Canada’s Project Red Ribbon campaign, representatives from the...
The At Home Caregiver Benefit is a new program that helps those who are at high likelihood of admission to long-term care to stay in the comfort of their home while receiving ongoing care from a primary caregiver. Shortly before Valarie MacRae and Michael Downs moved to Prince...
Isaac MacLean, Campbell McNeil and Ethan Reeves gather with their carefully researched notes, questions and recording equipment, ready to interview their latest special guest. Together the Grade 12 students cohost The Train Station, a podcast that explores pressing issues in...
If you’ve ever studied another language, you know that practice makes perfect. That’s why the Programme de perfectionnement linguistique (PPL) was created, to help Island teachers maintain and improve their French language skills. Cecile Arsenault is the program coordinator....
To help families and school staff plan for the year ahead, the province has released the calendar for the 2024-2025 school year, which includes 182 instructional days. The school calendar lays out all the important dates families and the school community need to know for the year...
In Andrew Rowe’s class, students are busy doing hands-on activities, solving problems, and working on creative projects. Rowe teaches Essential Skills Achievement Pathway (ESAP) at Montague Regional High School, a pilot program that gets students ready for jobs in a skills-based...
With his lunch break barely started, a Grade 5 École François-Buote student grabs a rake and is ready to carry on making a garden bed. “Can we go back to work now?” he asks Jason MacNeil, who is the programming coordinator for the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation. It turns out...
The 2023 State of the Health Workforce report released this week by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows significant growth in Prince Edward Island’s healthcare workforce, particularly in nurse practitioners (NP) and family physicians, outpacing national...
With production on a fifth season now underway, the hidden island podcast has come a long way since its beginnings in 2020. The podcast, which is released by the PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation, has seen its number of listeners grow with each new season. “So far the podcast...