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The P.E.I. government has announced it will cover the tuition costs for Canadian resident care workers who choose to train on the Island.

UPSE P.E.I.: The fallacy of Resident Care Worker (RCW) Appreciation Week

Karen Jackson, president of the Union of Public Sector Employees in P.E.I., provided the following opinion article. As we celebrate and recognize the great work and contributions of resident care workers (RCW), patient care workers (PCW) and home ...

Updated 16 hours ago |3 min read

LETTERS: Charlottetown Irving site an embarrasment; P.E.I.health workers splintered by government

Updated 16 hours ago |4 min read

CUPE P.E.I. members rally outside the Coles Building on April 11, arguing proposed wage increases for health support staff at Health P.E.I. are far below what workers have lost due to inflation in the last few years. Stu Neatby/SaltWire file

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Advice from afar on preventing N.S. teachers strike

Updated 18 hours ago |4 min read

Teachers from the Nova Scotia Teachers Union hold a picket rally during the afternoon commute, on the Armdale Rotary in Halifax Monday April 15, 2024. The NTSU members recent;y voted 98% of a strike mandate.

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WENDY ELLIOTT: Protest real issues instead of carbon tax

Updated 55 minutes ago |4 min read

Tim German's 'Dark Angel' — 760K and still delivering

Updated 1 hour ago |1 min read

TINA COMEAU: My tears and disappointment when people laugh about drug addiction

Updated 12 hours ago |9 min read

An artist's rendering of plans for the proposed Never Forgotten National Memorial monument. CONTRIBUTED/NEVER FORGOTTEN NATIONAL MEMORIAL

LETTER: Discussion regarding proposed Cape Breton monument continues

Contributed |Updated 21 hours ago |3 min read

Re: ‘Monument does not belong in national park,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, March 16 Re: ‘Veterans’ monument description upsets reader,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, April 4 As spokesperson for friendsofourfallen.ca, I am ...

The Pictou-Antigonish Library Board has released a three-year accessibility plan for its seven branch libraries, services and programs. Stock Image

LETTER: Whitney Pier pitched as new library location

Contributed |Updated 21 hours ago |2 min read

Several years ago, while a student at Cape Breton University, I took a political science course from Dr. Tom Urbaniak. One of the more interesting aspects of the course surrounded the tours we did in Whitney Pier looking at the infrastructure, the ...

Auctioneer Brian Craswell takes bids for the grand champion at the P.E.I. Easter Beef Show and Sale in Charlottetown on Friday.

LETTERS: On P.E.I.'s Easter Beef cattle sale, parking at the QEH, cycling in Brackley, P.E.I., and more

Contributed |Updated a day ago |6 min read

Horrified by Easter beef ad I'm writing to you today about the March 26 edition of The Guardian. I was heartbroken to come across a full, two-page ad for the 73rd annual Easter Beef Show and Sale 2024. The beautiful cattle featured with their ...

Ed Coleman is a regular columnist for the Valley Journal Advertiser.

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING WITH ED COLEMAN: Land speculation in 1900s leads to profitable acquisitions

Ed Coleman · columnist |Updated a day ago |3 min read

Was it a coincidence that Sir Frederick Borden, the minister of Militia and Defence, prepared a Bill late in 1910 proposing the construction of a railway to Cape Split, where a major power project was being considered? The railway, if constructed, ...

Within the next 60 days, Charlottetown's Community Outreach Centre on Euston Street will be shut down, and the province will move it to 15 Park St., marking the fifth relocation of the centre in just a few years. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

IAN (TEX) MacDONALD: Other locales better suited to Charlottetown's outreach centre

Contributed |Updated a day ago |4 min read

Ian (Tex) MacDonald, a former mayor of Charlottetown, provided the following opinion article. In the landscape before us stands the Charlottetown Curling Club. It was built in 1945 after the original club, The Excelsior burned down in 1938. The ...

Premier Tim Houston: “I believe they’re giving serious consideration to opening the mine." FILE

TOM URBANIAK: Nova Scotia Guard: Wrong name, sloppy bill

Contributed |Updated a day ago |4 min read

Nova Scotia’s Bill 455 is flawed and needs to be significantly reworked. The bill enables the provincial government to recruit Nova Scotians to a vaguely defined and embarrassingly named “Nova Scotia Guard” to deal with emergencies. Significantly, ...

Teachers in Nova Scotia will hold a strike vote on April 11. Nova Scotia Teachers Union president Ryan Lutes said teachers hope job action won’t be necessary. STOCK IMAGE

GRANT FROST: N.S. government on hook if teachers walk the line

Contributed, Grant Frost · Columnist |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |5 min read

On Thursday, the teachers of this province voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate. The strike vote was necessary, according to union leadership, in order to get the government bargaining team moving toward what the Nova Scotia Teachers ...

Environment Minister Tim Halman, left, and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr introduce the provincial government's plan for climate-resilient coastal communities at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024.

HOLD ----- COMMENTARY: Restore N.S. government’s coastal protection resolve

Contributed |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |4 min read

By Ron Swan CARP Nova Scotia is profoundly disappointed by the provincial government’s reversal of its commitment to proclaim the Coastal Protection Act. As an organization of active and engaged older citizens, we take seriously our responsibilities ...

Columnist Ray Bates suggests our ages shouldn't be used against us, CONTRIBUTED

RAY BATES: Our ages should not be timelines established by others

Contributed |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read

At what age do we start — or stop — being able to achieve tasks or contemplate thoughts? When I was 15 years old a law dictated that I was “too young to drive” regardless of the fact that I could easily maneuver my father’s truck and tractor. When I ...

Gravel roads can be easily deteriorated by weather, on top of regular wear-and-tear. While paving may seem like a solution to some, it has it's draw backs for farmers. GARY SAUNDERS

COVID VIGNETTE: It's a pothole potpourri

Contributed |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read

In nearly six decades of driving the Old Barns/Clifton Shore Road, I've never seen it so pot-holey as this February past. Well, once or twice, years ago, it was pretty bad. So bad that, one April day, I took two knee boots, put a brick in each, stood ...