CBC - P.E.I. (An hour ago)
Prince Edward Island's new organ and tissue donation liaison could be hired within the next year, according to the province's program manager. The new role within Health P.E.I. was announced last week and is intended to strengthen support for both donor families and health-care staff navigating the donation process.
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Jimmy O'Toole is being remembered as a person who made the world a better place, in ways great and small. O'Toole fought for better cancer coverage for firefighters, before being diagnosed with cancer himself. Now, many communities are mourning his passing.
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Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says he began using coercive control and physical violence against her. However, at the end of their relationship, Lucy herself was charged with assault.
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Nearly three decades after crews used a 45-hectare space in Borden-Carleton to construct components of the Confederation Bridge, the site remains vacant — and the MLA for the area is wondering why the province is taking so long to come up with a plan for it.
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Some vendors at the Summerside Farmers' Market are frustrated they can no longer cook food in the space anymore. The province says it hasn't changed any requirements, but some who've cooked there for years are now not allowed. CBC's Taylor O'Brien explains.
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A program in P.E.I. that's been helping bilingual students find work for the summer for more than two decades is back once again. CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin speaks with the P.E.I. Francophone Economic Development Council's Julie Gallant to find out what's in store for this year.
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A cold spring morning marked the start of one of the most important days of the year for Prince Edward Island's lobster fishers. Monday was setting day for Lobster Fishing Area 26A along P.E.I.'s South Shore — the official opening of the spring season, when crews head out at dawn to set their traps.
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A new "smokeless generation" law in the United Kingdom has Canadian health advocates suggesting that similar legislation in Canada. The U.K. parliament recently passed legislation that would ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2008.
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Data obtained by Radio-Canada shows that about two-thirds of students who attend École Mer et Monde in south-end Halifax leave the French school system after Grade 9. The executive director of the French school board calls it an emergency. "We are watching assimilation in real time," Michel Collette says.
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Acadia University student Sujit Acharya owed thousands in tuition and had a few hundred dollars to his name when he decided to make some Nepalese dumplings for a festival in the hopes to earn some money. The business now sells its products at farmers' markets and in several stores. And that's just the start of his plans.
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With the provincial budget less than a week away, many non-profits and other organizations are anxiously awaiting what it will hold. The Labrador North Chamber of Commerce, as well as Labrador West's Housing and Homelessness coalition, know what they want to see. The CBC's Zack Russell has that story.
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Once again, every single participant in Project SEARCH's latest cohort has found a job. The program, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, helps young adults with intellectual, learning or developmental disabilities build the skills they need to enter the workforce.
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With the rise of artificial intelligence, data centre projects are popping up around the country, and one now proposed for Saint John has both supporters and opponents. But next door in Maine, legislators want to take things more slowly and see some research.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (4 days ago)
Sidney MacEwen resigned from provincial cabinet this week in order to stay within conflict of interest rules, while the government also walked back some budget cuts after public backlash. CBC's Steve Bruce sat down with Sally Pitt and Paul MacNeill to discuss another week in the P.E.I. Legislature.
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New Brunswick's minister of public safety says legislation is coming to provide a legal framework to the office of the provincial security adviser, a little-known branch of government that has been accused of collecting personal information on New Brunswickers.
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The lawyer for the family of deceased Innu teen Kirby Mistenapeo says child protection officials in Newfoundland and Labrador were aware that his primary caregiver was drinking on the job — one of the many alleged systemic failings raised on Thursday.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (5 days ago)
Endometriosis is a condition in which tissue similar to what grows inside the uterus starts growing outside of it instead. That can cause significant mid-body pain, as well as fertility issues. P.E.I. currently does not have any specialists to treat the condition.
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Amy MacArthur has become a fierce advocate for people in Atlantic Canada who live with endometriosis, a chronic disease affecting those born with a uterus. CBC News: Compass host Louise Martin spoke with MacArthur to find out why she founded Endo Project Atlantic and the work the group is doing.
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Nova Scotia's environment minister says the province is well on its way to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Paris Agreement target for 2030, but he cannot say how it would make up for setbacks if new carbon-emitting industries take root — as the premier is pushing for.
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Newfoundland and Labrador's new universal electronic health information system is set to go online province-wide Saturday. Family doctors who are based in NLHS-operated facilities want more time to adopt CorCare in their own clinics while they use it in the emergency department.
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Crosskill Court is one of seven facilities that offer the enriched housing program under the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency. The long-running program, which has been available at Crosskill Court since the 1990s, offers an alternative to seniors who do not want to live at home but don't require the level of services offered in long-term care.
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The RCMP made six missions to search for Jennifer Hillier-Penney's body in the waters near Hare Bay Islands off St. Anthony, N.L., and searched over 130 points of interest. In his testimony in Corner Brook Supreme Court on Thursday, RCMP Cpl. Steven Hatch said the searches came up with nothing.
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A Nova Scotia family is speaking out after their 19-year-old son was taken to hospital following multiple suicide attempts. After being assessed, he was sent by taxi to a local homeless shelter. The teen and his parents say it felt like hospital staff were more concerned about clearing a bed than helping him.
ReadCBC - P.E.I. (5 days ago)
A fisherman from Souris, P.E.I., will be testing the latest version of his lobster counting and grading system that was made with the help of UPEI's sustainable design and engineering students. The faculty's current cohort are wrapping up their final projects, hoping for similar success. CBC's Nancy Russell has more.
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