The Guardian (Charlottetown)
WHAT A RUSH
Kenneth Sanderson, who embraced surfing when he lived in Australia before returning home to P.E.I., is a member of a community of hardy surfers who follow the waves on P.E.I.’s north shore in the chilly fall and winter months. The Rustico Surf Club has...
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BEST LAID PLANS
The 2026 Scotties Tournament of Hearts is about much more than just curling for Emily Best. It’s about reflection, emotions, realizing a dream, and an opportunity to give back. As Best participates in her first-ever Canadian women’s curling...
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CHARLOTTETOWN’S DEPUTY MAYOR RECORDS FIRST LP
ACharlottetown politician was thinking about her mother’s medical diagnosis when thoughts of recording her first solo album began to materialize. Alanna Jankov decided to put her feelings into a song about her mom, Gail, being diagnosed with...
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WISH COME TRUE
Myer Gallant, right, and his first cousin, Rowan Rennie, chat with Penguins captain Sidney Crosby in the dressing room of Pittsburgh’s practice facility. Crosby signed Myer’s and Rowan’s jerseys and socialized with the two Prince Edward Islanders on...
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GRATEFUL FOR NEW SPACE
Vendors and shoppers say they are excited the farmers market has reopened at a temporary new location weeks after a fire destroyed its former home. Vendors say quick reopening has been crucial, particularly for those who rely on the market as a...
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XI WELCOMES STEADY STREAM OF LEADERS SHAKEN BY TRUMP’S NEW WORLD ORDER
Donald Trump’s tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world’s other major economy. South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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TOUGH SLEDDING
Ice covers part of Confederation Trail at the junction in Emerald, P.E.I. Recent warm weather and rain melted much of the snow on the trail, making it unusable for snowmobiles. With no significant snow in the forecast, it may be a while before the...
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PROVINCE WILL MISS 2030 CLIMATE TARGET
The P.E.I. government’s own projections suggest that current policies will result in the province missing its 2030 climate target, according to a report released by the Department of Environment. The new report, a yearly tally of the province’s...
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CARRY A BIG STICK
Hannah the mini dachshund proudly lifts, with great difficulty, a large stick thrown for her by her humans, Tammy and Kevin Boulter, during a recent walk along Summerside’s Baywalk. If she ventured out Monday, Hannah would have had even more difficulty...
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LENDING A HELPING HAND
Rowen Rodgers, left, and Kinley Scott, two Grade 9 students from Birchwood Intermediate School in Charlottetown, make up boxes of food at the Upper Room Hospitality Ministry’s food bank on Thursday. A group of Birchwood students has been volunteering...
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MARKET GETS TEMPORARY HOME
The Charlottetown Farmers’ Market has a new temporary home. For the next year, the market will take place at 614 North River Rd., the former location of Sporting Intentions. A fire on Christmas Day shuttered the market, but the building will be...
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FERRY SAILING DELAYED
The MV Confederation sits docked in Charlottetown on Dec. 30. The ship was expected to travel to St. John’s this month but Northumberland Ferries said it returned to Charlottetown on Jan. 5 because of a mechanical issue involving the keel cooling system.
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A NEW BUILDING FOR DOWNTOWN
Another change is underway in downtown Charlottetown’s historic grid. Earlier this year, Bevan Bros. Ltd. demolished some buildings around the corners of Queen, Dorchester and King Streets. Now, the company is planning a seven storey mixed use complex...
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WILL TOP U.S. COURT END THE TARIFF TURMOIL?
’Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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GOING A LEVEEING
Hundreds of P.E.I. residents and visitors line up at Government House on Thursday to attend a New Year’s Day levee. There were 47 levee events celebrating 2026 across P.E.I., according to a list compiled by Charlottetown blogger Peter Rukavina. This...
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NUMBER 6 USHERS IN NEW YEAR
Downtown Charlottetown Inc. has brought in the new year in the P.E.I. capital. Tim’s Crane Service arrived outside the P.E.I. Convention Centre on the waterfront on a chilly Dec. 30 morning to perform the annual change at the big red numbers. It was...
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SPECIAL LITTLE DELIVERIES
Abby Carroll comes from a family that considers Christmas the biggest day of the year, so it was only fitting that she had her first baby on the holiday. Carroll and her husband, Dean, welcomed their newborn into the world at 2:08 a.m., making him the...
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Apartment fire leaves two dead
Two people are dead following a structure fire at an apartment building on Green Street in Charlottetown on Dec. 28. The Charlottetown fire department responded to the fire around 7 a.m. on Dec. 28. Kent Mitchell, deputy fire chief, said once...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a threeper-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax...
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READY FOR THE PLUNGE
Jake MacCallum, the organizer for the 2026 polar bear dip in Charlottetown on Jan. 1, heads into the icy waters next to the Charlottetown Yacht Club on Dec. 22. He said there is no better way to advertise the event than by showing how it’s done.
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Maisy visits Santa Claus at the Confederation Court Mall, accompanied by Vanessa Larter (not pictured), to share her wish list ahead of Christmas.
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TRAINS, WAGONS AND HEARSES
Aparamedicine instructor who has published a book about the history of the Island’s ambulance service still gets choked up when talking about all he learned from his co-author, the late Sylvia Poirier, a trailblazer for paramedicine in P.E.I. who died...
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BOOM & GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world’s largest automakers is building Canada’s biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
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DEAL REACHED WITH DOCTORS
Health P.E.I. CEO Melanie Fraser speaks with reporters on Thursday after the announcement that the province has reached an agreement with family doctors. The agreement between Health P.E.I., the Department of Health and Wellness and the Medical Society...
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WORKING TOGETHER TO GROW
Like any city, Charlottetown has sections that are dedicated to business. Downtown, West Royalty and the city’s north end between the bypass and Sherwood Road all stand out as strong commercial or industrial zones. But only downtown has what is called...
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EMBRACING CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
To walk into Richard Xu’s Charlottetown home at this time of year is like many in P.E.I. There are stockings hung on the mantelpiece, a Christmas tree, a television showing a burning fireplace, sweets and a dinner table decked out with festive holiday...
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NEW FERRY DELAYED
Transport Canada has pushed back the delivery of a new ferry for the Prince Edward Island-nova Scotia crossing. The federal agency had originally promised it would occur in 2028 but is now not even saying what the date will be when that vessel will be...
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NEW PREMIER SWORN IN
Bloyce Thompson was sworn in as P.E.I.’S 35th premier in a ceremony held at Government House in Charlottetown on Dec. 12. This follows former premier Rob Lantz’s resignation the day before so he could run for the Progressive Conservative party...
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PREMIER STEPS DOWN
Rob Lantz poses with members of the Progressive Conservative caucus at the P.E.I. Convention Centre in Charlottetown on Thursday after announcing his intention to run as permanent PC leader. On Friday, Lantz quit as premier at a Government House...
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HERITAGE DESIGNATION DENIED
Acontroversial attempt by the Charlottetown heritage department to have a house in the city’s downtown temporarily declared a heritage property without the owner’s consent has failed. This fall, the department applied to have 1B West St. made a...
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NO TO GUN BUYBACK
Charlottetown police will not be taking part in a federal program to buy back and eventually confiscate a variety of rifles and guns. Earlier this fall, Charlottetown’s police chief and deputy spoke about the department’s interest in helping the...
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SANTA’S HELPERS
Cpl. Kathy Lugosi, left, of the Cornwall detachment of the RCMP, prepares to mail her letter to Santa Claus as Staff Sgt. Nick Doyle looks on. The Cornwall detachment is accepting letters to Santa until Dec. 19, working in conjunction with Canada Post...
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ROLE MODELS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING
Girls from across P.E.I. spent Saturday learning about science, technology, engineering and math at this year’s Girls Get Wise event held at UPEI. The event, organized by STEAM P.E.I. in partnership with Girl Guides and UPEI, brought together about...
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ONTARIO CITY A CENTRAL SPOT IN FENTANYL FIGHT
In an underworld of criminals, guns and deadly fentanyl, Windsor, Ont., is a national nexus. Windsor’s place in the country’s booming fentanyl trade was recently highlighted with a record-shattering 46-kilogram drug bust. The $6.5-million fentanyl...
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TRADITION CARRIES ON
Philip Gallant, left, and his sister, Nadine Tibbits, have turned Gallant’s North Rustico property into a Christmas wonderland in memory of their father, James Gallant (shown in a family portrait). James, who died in the spring at age 86, spent 38...
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OFFERING A SAFE SPACE
P.E.I.’S first and only openly queer nightclub has opened its doors with a goal its staff says goes beyond nightlife but creating a safe home for LGBTQIA2S+ Islanders and their allies. Be You Bar, located in downtown Charlottetown, opened three months...
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LOOKING LIKE CHRISTMAS
Parka-clad pedestrians pick their way along slushy sidewalks on Queen Street in Charlottetown. About five to 10 centimetres of wet, heavy snow blanketed P.E.I. overnight Tuesday and a further five to 10 cm was being called for Wednesday. The Island’s...
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‘We can do a lot of things’
A Grade 10 student from Charlottetown is looking forward to making a difference as he takes on the role of Easter Seals ambassador. Rowan Macdonald, who attends Colonel Gray High School, was selected by the Easter Seals committee after a cross-island...
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SMILES ALL AROUND
Holland College’s newly renovated dental clinic has a goal of improving oral health for communities in P.E.I., officials said during an official opening ceremony on Nov. 28. The upgrades are part of a threeyear project supported by the federal...
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WHY CHINESE EVS KEEP HAUNTING LIBERAL PRIME MINISTERS
Mark Carney has inherited Justin Trudeau’s nightmare. In his decade as prime minister, one of the policy decisions that haunted Trudeau was the unavoidable question about whether to allow Chinese electric vehicles (EVS) into the Canadian market. It...
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A NEWSIE AT HEART
Gary MacDougall, former managing editor of The Guardian, has just published his sixth book, A Newsie from the Valley: The Memoir of a P.E.I. Paperboy. In it, he recounts stories from his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. It is also a love...
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KEEPING UP THE PRESSURE
P.E.I. The Town of Cornwall is getting ready to double its water supply. A two-year construction project has recently finished on a second water tower on the opposite side of the community as the first one. The new tower is located about a kilometre...
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WATERSHED ALLIANCE RAISES ALARM
Heather Laiskonis says the provincial government should follow its own advice and put in place an independent, arm’slength body tasked with making decisions about water. The executive director of the P.E.I. Watershed Alliance, which represents 25...
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READY FOR THE EDD
Dave, left, and Dwayne Mcneill pose with the Edd Mcneill Memorial hockey tournament all-star game championship trophy and other awards. This year marks the first time in the tournament’s 28-year history an all-star game will be held. The all-star game...
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P.E.I.’S URGENT ISSUES ON THE DEBATE FLOOR
Health and housing were two of the topics on the agenda for students taking part in this year’s recent Rotary Youth Parliament. The 36th annual Rotary Youth Parliament opened Nov. 21 at the P.E.I. legislature in Charlottetown, with Island students...
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Summerside Western Capitals lead the league
The Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals have put themselves in a position to widen their lead atop the Maritime Junior Hockey League standings. The Capitals, leaders of the Eastlink South Division and winners of four straight games,...
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A MOMENT OF SILENCE
Flag-bearers stand at the ready for Remembrance Day ceremonies in Charlottetown on Nov. 11 as thousands of onlookers line the downtown streets in view of the recently restored cenotaph. Events took place at communities across P.E.I. on Tuesday in...
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‘EVERYONE IS AGREED THAT IT’S AWFUL’
You’re a Canadian farm kid, sitting in a European trench in 1915. A man you’ve never met is dying across a stretch of open land, 100 yards away, as you pen a letter home. Death is everywhere. You’ve shot moving bodies, you’ve huddled against incoming...
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IN SEARCH OF A SEAL
Ray Brow, chair of the P.E.I. Military Sites Museum and P.E.I. Colonial Militia, is hoping to solve a 250-year-old mystery by finding the province’s Great Seal and having it returned. The seal was stolen during a raid on Charlottetown by U.S....
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QUALITY OF CARE
Families of residents of private long-term care homes say care standards and staff training at these homes can be inadequate despite an influx of public dollars into the sector. Thirteen family members of residents of private long-term care facilities...
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NEW SCHOOL SET FOR SUMMERSIDE
The Progressive Conservative government of Premier Rob Lantz has released its five-year capital budget, which includes plans to build a new school in Summerside. The capital budget commits $14.5 million for the construction of a new school as a...
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GETTING OFF THE REGISTRY
Mandy Learn, a licensed practical nurse, says the first few days of UPEI’S new patient medical home have brought some early festive cheer to P.E.I. patients. Since opening last week, Learn and other staff at the patient medical home have begun...
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LEGISLATURE RESUMES
Joey Jeffrey, clerk of the P.E.I. legislative assembly, prepares for the fall sitting of the P.E.I. legislature, which begins today. The continuation of the second session of the 67th General Assembly will resume in the Coles Building in Charlottetown...
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FROM FAMILY HOME TO IRAQI SPOILS
Mayer Lawee, an 86-year-old Montreal man, remembers a childhood in his family’s elegant mansion, built by his father and uncle in the heart of Baghdad, Iraq’s quixotic capital, especially family weddings in the walled gardens with its tiered fountains,...
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A NEW CHAPTER
For a small city, Charlottetown has plenty of bookstores, ranging from comics and second-hand classics, to local authors and bestsellers. Now, one of those stores has relocated and expanded, adding 50 per cent more retail space. Bookmark has opened...
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN
Pilip Cameron gets into the spirit of things during Witches on Water on Oct. 25. Hundreds of families made their way to Summerside’s core for the annual Downtown Summerside celebration that closes the streets for about two hours, so local businesses...
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STRIKE REACHES 90 DAYS
Charlottetown’s water and sewer union, CUPE Local 830, has passed 90 days on strike this week. Here’s the latest on what they want, what the city says and some of the conflict between workers and employer. WHAT DOES THE UNION WANT? The strike centres...
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SHARING GIFTS WITH STRANGERS
AGlenfinnan, P.E.I., man has been thinking of ways to spread kindness but had to overcome a fear of people to do it. Emile Gaudet said he a thought came to him in the middle of the night in 2021 – approach random strangers and try to make their day...
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‘YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE AGONY’
AP.E.I. fertility advocate is calling on the province to improve access to fertility care for Islanders struggling with infertility. Ashlee London, who has experienced infertility herself, appeared before a standing committee on health and social...
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ACCESS TO CHEAP CANADIAN MEDS ON LIFE SUPPORT
Linda Klonsky usually orders her prescription eye drops from a Canadian pharmacy that charges US$250 for a three-month supply. But that came to an abrupt halt late this summer when it came time for her to reorder, as the Trump administration’s latest...
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LET’S GO, BLUE JAYS
Tracey Gallant, left, and her husband, Dwayne Gallant, of Cornwall, have been fans of the Toronto Blue Jays since the team won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. They, along with their entire family and many more baseball fans in...
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SCUBA DIVING WITH A PURPOSE
Pat Roberts has always had concern for the environment, a passion that has only grown since she moved to P.E.I. from Ontario in 2015. During her walks along the coast, she frequently picks up garbage left on beaches or washed up on shore. Recently,...
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‘I wish every phone had it’
The chief of the Tyne Valley fire department thinks all cellphones should have the ability to call 911 on their own. William Bishop says his department found a man who died in a single-vehicle collision on Route 132 (Northam Road) on Oct. 13 because...
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DREDGING UP ANSWERS
Maintenance dredging is underway in the Northumberland Strait off Wood Islands, P.E.I., where conditions have caused ferry cancellations and issues for fishing vessels in the shallow waters. Northumberland Ferries Ltd., the company that operates the...
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RACING TO A RECORD
Prince Edward Islander Luc Gallant continues to rewrite the history book of the Prince Edward Island Marathon. The 25-year-old physical education teacher at Evangeline School set a new course record for the full event with a chip time of two hours 28...
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BEAR THE WORST OF HISTORIC WILDFIRE SEASON
Fire WE025 started small. But in late May, hot and dry conditions and gusty winds whipped it into an out-of-control inferno. Over 116 days, it swept across northwestern Manitoba, chewing up 447,000 acres of boreal forest — an area larger than Houston —...
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CLASS SIZE FALLOUT
Mobasherah Falak, a master’s student in computer science and a teaching assistant for undergrad courses, says the sharp fall in international student enrolment at UPEI has taken its toll in smaller classrooms. She says a decline in diversity has...
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HITTING THE ROAD
When Takashi Yanagihara arrives in P.E.I. this week, it won’t just be for work. He’s also lacing up his running shoes for the upcoming P.E.I. Marathon. Yanagihara, who lives in Japan, said his trip to the Island was originally scheduled as a business...
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Keepers of the woods
P.E.I. Pat Binns loves the land and has dedicated much of his life to preserving what he can. The former P.E.I. premier said it is his aim in life to see woodland become as valuable as it was 100 years ago when it was an integral part of the...
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FILLING THE MISSING MIDDLE
As Prince Edward Island has seen rising homelessness over the last few years, the province and local non-profits have tried different strategies to keep a roof over Islanders’ heads. The province has built emergency shelters, while a mix of volunteers...
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BACK IN CABINET
Cory Deagle is back in cabinet and is no longer running to be premier. The Montague-kilmuir MLA was sworn in as minister of housing, land and communities in a ceremony at Government House on Oct. 10. Deagle will replace Steven Myers, the former...
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PROTECTING THE LAND
Square bales are stacked in a field in the Emerald, P.E.I., area. The Coalition for the Protection of P.E.I. Lands recommends that IRAC be stripped of its role in enforcing and administering the Lands Protection Act due to a lack of transparency and...
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MORE DOCTORS NEEDED
Health P.E.I. CEO Melanie Fraser says the province is punching above its weight when it comes to recruiting doctors but acknowledges more needs to be done for the 35,000 Islanders who lack a family physician. Fraser spoke before the standing committee...
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NEW GROUND FOR RCMP
A recent bust in P.E.I. turned up more than just drugs and something new for the province’s RCMP. On Sept. 22, the RCMP’S joint enforcement team executed a drug search warrant at a residence in Upton, P.E.I. Four people were arrested, including three...
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