RECENT BLOG POSTS
The sessional teachers of English 101 at UPEI are worried they are going to be out of a job in the fall.On Wednesday night, the non-tenured part-time instructors of English 101 held a meeting to discuss the university's plan to discontinue their course and offer a new course in its place.The UPEI...
02/07/2008
1
Comments
group representing companies that produce lawn- care chemicals says pesticides are safe, they do not cause cancer and they should not be banned on Prince Edward Island.The Canadian Consumer Specialty Products Association (CCSPA) represents more than 40 Canadian companies that make soaps, detergen...
02/07/2008
HALIFAX - A nearly two-year period of political detente has been shattered by Nova Scotia's governing Conservative minority, which is looking to bloody the Opposition New Democrats ahead of the next election.Since the beginning of the new year the government's communications strategy has undergon...
02/07/2008
0
Comments
P.E.I.'s Official Opposition is accusing the Liberal government of attempting to grab power from a private sector advisory group on tourism.The government is considering making the Tourism Department a Crown corporation.Tourism Minister Valerie Docherty told CBC News that the shift would take the...
02/07/2008
0
Comments
The union representing P.E.I. Tourism Department employees is nervous about a possible move to turn the department into a Crown corporation.The Union of Public Sector Employees represents about 400 workers in the tourism department, most of whom are seasonal. If the department becomes a Crown cor...
02/07/2008
A P.E.I.-based collective that questions traditional notions of beauty has created one of the fastest growing groups on Facebook.Beauty Vs. Industry was started by Heather Ross, a high school student in Souris, on P.E.I.'s eastern shore. Formed Jan. 4, the group had more than 6,400 members as of ...
02/07/2008
There's been a dramatic positive shift in the financial picture for P.E.I., revealed in the auditor general's review of the 2006-07 fiscal year.The report shows that the government brought in a $23.9 million surplus, rather than a $12.5 million deficit for the year.It was the previous Progressive...
02/07/2008
0
Comments
Some premiers said a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday in Ottawa to discuss the economy was productive, but no concrete commitments were made."I know everyone tonight is looking for the miracle solution," said New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham, who currently chairs the Council of...
01/11/2008
2
Comments
The Canadian economy's record of habitually churning out robust employment growth came to an abrupt end in December, as 18,700 jobs disappeared, Statistics Canada said Friday.The jobs report was much weaker than analysts were expecting. The consensus had been that the country would add about 15,0...
01/11/2008
The trial of a woman accused of defrauding two Charlottetown men of more than $53,000 began Thursday with an elaborate description of how the alleged fraud occurred. Marie Claire Mballa told a Charlottetown man she worked for United Nations, the court heard at her fraud trial. (Police photo) The...
01/11/2008