The Guardian (Charlottetown)
HONOURING THEIR SERVICE
A few weeks ago, Robin Croucher told his wife he needed to start thinking about the speech he would give at his daughter’s wedding. “I could never have imagined I’d be here today delivering her eulogy,” he said. “No parent should ever be faced with...
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INTERNAL TRADE BARRIERS STILL COSTING CANADA: CFIB
A leading business group is giving some provinces and the federal government good grades for trying to break down Canada’s costly internal trade obstacles, even as those barriers continue to cost Canadians billions of dollars a year. In its annual...
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ISLAND IN MOURNING
The regimental funeral procession begins for paramedic Jenna Croucher of Souris on Friday from the Delta Hotel on the Charlottetown waterfront. Croucher, 23, was killed along with her colleague, Mike MacKenzie, 56, and their patient on July 7 when...
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A LOVE OF RACING
Rocky Schurman of Summerside, P.E.I., developed a love of harness racing at a young age. Today, that passion for standardbred horses is as strong as ever. “My father (the late Garth Schurman) was a driver, an owner and a trainer, so I have been around...
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LOBSTER CARNIVAL BEGINS
Crews assemble the midway grounds for the 2026 Summerside Lobster Carnival. The carnival runs with a full slate of events from Wednesday to Saturday. The theme this year is Raceway Days, a nod to the 150th anniversary of harness racing in Summerside....
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A VISION OF SERENITY
ALEXANDRA, P.E.I. The co-founder of the charity group Santa’s Angels has big plans for the Serene View Ranch in Alexandra. Kenny Zakem needs to fundraise $2.2 million this summer to buy the 125-acre property. The idea is to make it the permanent home...
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A SOMBRE RETURN
A procession carrying the bodies of P.E.I. paramedics Mike Mackenzie and Jenna Croucher crosses the Confederation Bridge into Borden-carleton on July 10. The paramedics were killed along with their patient when the ambulance they were travelling in...
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SPENDING NEEDED FOR ‘GROWTH,’ MINISTER SAYS
The federal government plans to pay for its recent big-ticket spending through a combination of economic growth and deficit increases, Finance Minister François-philippe Champagne says. Prior to officially kicking off the government’s pre-budget...
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HIDDEN HISTORY
Tour guide Eboshogwe Igwoba holds up a historic image of Rochford Square during a walking tour of The Bog. The P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation is offering free tours of the Island’s community of formerly enslaved people who lived 200 years ago,...
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ELECTRIFYING INFORMATION
Maritime Electric says it has installed about 34,000 new smart meters across P.E.I. as it continues a provincewide rollout expected to be completed next summer. The utility is about one-third of the way through installing 90,000 meters and about...
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A CHILD’S RIGHT TO PROTECTION
Warning: The following story includes information around murder and suicide and may be upsetting to readers. Canada’s Suicide Crisis Helpline is available by calling or texting 988. P.E.I.’S child advocate is calling on the province to establish a new...
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TAKING THE BAIT
Shane Jamieson of Souris washes off his fishing boat, Down Time, which is berthed at the Canadian Coast Guard wharf in Souris, as sunny skies continue in P.E.I. Jamieson said he had just gotten in from a day laying mackerel as bait.
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MIMINEGASH MARKS ABBY HUSTLER DAY
As Abby Hustler made her way toward the Miminegash Event Centre grounds, she was escorted by an honour guard of young girls. As the host of children walked together, they carried a wide and colourful banner, which, in shades of dark blue, white, and...
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OLAND MURDER STILL OPEN 15 YEARS LATER
For those who were in the packed, fifth-floor courtroom of the Saint John Law Courts on Dec. 19, 2015, it was a scene that cannot be forgotten. Dennis Oland, on trial for the second-degree murder of his dad, Richard, stood next to one of his defence...
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SLIDING INTO SUMMER
Four-year-old Myleigh MacKinnon enjoys a ride on the giant inflatable slide at Marco Polo Land in Cavendish. The sun, heat and humidity have been high this week, with the humidex in the 30s on Thursday and Friday. More of the same is expected today,...
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PLENTY OF PRODUCT
Despite the presence of two fatal diseases harming wild and cultured oysters in P.E.I., the general manager of Raspberry Point Oysters wants the public to know that its product is blossoming as the recently expanded company prepares for its first big...
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FINAL FLIGHTS
Sgt. Shane Votour, crew chief of Canada’s aerial acrobatics team the Snowbirds, performs some pre-flight maintenance. The Snowbirds recently flew from Slemon Park Airport while conducting a slate of shows around the Maritimes and Quebec. The 2026 air...
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HAVING A BALL
Nathaly Munoz, president of the Latino Association of P.E.I., explains the rules of soccer baseball before the start of the Multicultural Friendship Soccer Baseball Tournament in Charlottetown. Organizers chose the game because it is easy to learn and...
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A cruel irony of the war on drugs
It took Corey Tochor three years to get to this point. The Conservative MP turned heads on Parliament Hill when, in the midst of the House of Commons’ final dizzying days of passing legislation before adjourning for the summer, he emerged with an...
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Did fentanyl move north?
Fentanyl has become a political symbol of border failure, but public health academics say the recent decline in overdose deaths points instead to shifts in supply and public health measures — not tari s or border crackdowns. Nearly half of Americans —...
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PEAK SUMMER ADVENTURE .
Aman from Tarantum, P.E.I., took immense pride just days ago in knowing he had just reached the tallest point in North America. Darcy Murnaghan, who has been living in Calgary since 2014, ascended to the top of Mount Mckinley, also known as Denali, in...
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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IS HIGH, SO HOW IS THERE A LABOUR SHORTAGE?
Emma Hawley has been looking for work for about two years now. The 20-year-old says she has applied to more than 25 businesses within walking distance of her home, changed her resume multiple times, updated her contact information and repeatedly...
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DRUMMING FOR CANADA DAY
The president of the Canada Day drumming celebrations in Charlottetown is visibly excited when she shares what’s planned for Victoria Park on July 1. Mabel Chu promises an eclectic six-minute celebration that will make it virtually impossible not to...
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SALES DOWN, HOPES HIGH
Business at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market is slowly picking up as summer approaches, but many vendors say they are still seeing fewer customers than they did before a Christmas Day fire forced the market to move to a temporary location. Several...
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MILITARY POLICE WARNED ABOUT OFFICER’S CLAIMS OF ACCESS TO ANAND
A Canadian Forces officer in charge of a private organization raising funds for Ukraine told a civilian she not only had access to then-defence minister Anita Anand, but suggested she may be able to shape how federal government funds were spent on the...
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ADDING TO THE DYNASTY
It was a record-setting performance for the Morell Regional High School senior boys track and field team. And, in particular, team member Nathan Clinton, who became the first-ever athlete to set four PEISAA provincial championship records in the same...
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P.E.I. PROMENADE
Charlottetown’s two public high school held proms this week as the school year draws to a close. Due to ongoing renovation work at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Colonel Gray and Charlottetown Rural proms took place at the Eastlink Centre for...
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SPECIAL INVITATIONS
As L.J. Gaudet stood on the podium, the smile on the 10-year-old’s face captured the moment perfectly. It had nothing to do with the colour of ribbons L.J. had won, but – more importantly – about opportunity. “He was some proud,” said L.J.’S mother,...
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JOY UNCONFINED
Children at Sherwood Elementary School in Charlottetown take turns plunging down the new slide on June 12. The school’s inclusive playground was a five-year project and cost $400,000, largely raised by a committee of volunteers. Bethany Robinson,...
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MEET THE VEIN TRAIN
Seeing first-hand how important blood transfusions can be for patients, a group of Queen Elizabeth Hospital employees has made blood donation a regular part of giving back to the community. The group is called the Vein Train. They visit the Canadian...
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Lax border policies fostered one of Canada’s most dangerous gangs
At the immigration hearing for an accused Indian gangster earlier this month, an Edmonton police officer attempted to illustrate the scale of the criminal operation that law enforcement was now dealing with. The hearing concerned Jashandeep Singh, an...
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100 REASONS TO SMILE
P.E.I. Little did two P.E.I. women know when they met 36 years ago the pair would grow to be best friends and celebrate a major milestone together. Helen MacPhail and Gwen Taylor have both just celebrated their 100th birthdays. Both women marked the...
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BECOMING UNPLUGGED
A P.E.I. mother noticed the negative changes in her young daughter immediately. Jennifer Gill’s daughter was 14 years old when she got her first smartphone. “She spent hours online scrolling, and she was influenced by everybody on Instagram and...
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MAJOR PET PROJECT
The P.E.I. Humane Society is in the process of doubling in size as staff carry out the move from the former shelter building into a new one on the same property. “It’s incredibly gratifying, if I’m being honest with you,” Ashley Travis, development...
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‘THE BEATING HEART OF THE CAMPUS’
“The space is out of date,” university librarian Svetlana Kochkina said as she toured The Guardian around UPEI’S Robertson Library recently. The 52-year-old building is in the beginning stages of a significant renovation project. The renovation will...
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HOUSING PRICES WOULD BE 10% LOWER IF CANADA HAD KEPT PACE WITH U.S.: CMHC
Canada’s housing stock would be about 30 per cent larger and prices 10 per cent lower if this country’s building industry had been as responsive to demand as its American counterpart over the last couple of decades, says a new report from the federal...
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PUCKS TO PICKLEBALL
Cody Hodgson said when he was picked 10th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2008 NHL draft, he could never have guessed he would some day own a professional pickleball team. Hodgson, a co-owner of the York Yeti, will bring the first-ever...
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‘LARGER THAN LIFE’
Forbie Kennedy was remembered Tuesday as a man who had a passion for hockey and for his family. The Dorchester, N.B., born former NHL player was celebrated with a funeral at Eastlink Centre in Charlottetown. “How fitting is it that we celebrate...
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BRINGING THE WORLD CUP TO P.E.I.
Apiece of one of the world’s biggest sporting events is coming to Charlottetown. On June 15, Confederation Landing Park will be transformed as the City of Charlottetown works with soccer’s governing body FIFA on the event called Canada Celebrates,...
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TIME TO REFLECT
Dave Cheverie, an employee with the P.E.I. government’s Department of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy, was part of a highway crew putting down magnetic markers on the Trans-canada Highway near Wood Islands in late May. Cheverie said the...
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FEDERAL MINISTER POURS MORE COLD WATER ON N.B.’S LNG IDEA
Canada has reached a landmark deal to export liquefied natural gas to Germany — but it’s from the Pacific coast. And federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson has poured more cold water on the possibility of an East Coast export terminal, even as New...
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HEART-FELT PLEA
After a 20-month wait at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, nine-year-old Maverick Bishop is back home in Stratford, P.E.I., with a transplanted heart. His parents, Marie-Eve Roy, left, and Woodrow Bishop, are appealing to the public to have...
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FINDING A FIX
David Macmillan, volunteer with Charlottetown’s Fix-it Fair, left, attempts to fix a microwave belonging to Ray Dong. While the microwave could not be fixed, Dong said he still left happy knowing what was wrong with it. The fair, which has been growing...
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REMEMBERING FORBIE
For Scott Mccabe – and many others – Forbie Kennedy was much more than just a hockey coach. Mccabe played five years with the Kennedy-coached Charlottetown Abbies junior A team from 1986 to 1991. "As a young kid in the ’80s starting out at 16 years...
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ONE LAST TRIP
WOOD ISLANDS, P.E.I. A Wood Islands woman’s dying wish is to see the icebergs in Newfoundland and Labrador. But time is of the essence. Bev Stewart has been diagnosed with a form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), called primary lateral...
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CELEBRATING JOY
There’s a music festival happening in P.E.I. this week, but the setting is not a typical performance venue and some of the acts don’t have far to travel to take the stage. Whisperwood Villa, a Charlottetown seniors’ home, is being turned into a concert...
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POLITICIANS SEEK TO EASE FOOD COSTS, BUT ARE BATTLING MARKET FORCES
OTTAWA Call it the coriander conundrum. Like with parsley, carrots, dill and most other members of the apiaceae family of edible plants, the retail price of coriander has been growing like a weed. While the prices of many items on grocery store...
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How Mars gave a NASA spacecraft a gravitational boost
Launched on Oct. 13, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft got a boost on its way to the similarly-named asteroid 16 Psyche. The spacecraft recently used the planet Mars to get a gravitational boost on its three-year journey to the asteroid. Gravitational boosts...
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TASTES OF THE WORLD SETTLES IN NEW HOME
Awell-travelled man who has worked for some Michelin-star chefs says he was looking for years for a place to settle and cook before finding the perfect setting in P.E.I. Nishanth Dominic, who has just opened Island Chef on Queen Street in downtown...
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LEADING WOMEN OF THE WORLD
A P.E.I. woman had no idea when she was picking potatoes on the family farm as a youngster that she would eventually rise to become one of the most influential rural women’s voices in the world. Marie Kenny was elected the world president of the...
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LOOKING FOR A TEAM TO STEP UP
With the closure of the P.E.I. Alliance for Mental Well-being, several programs are in limbo. Health Minister Cory Deagle recently announced the closure of the organization during question period in the legislature, saying the alliance was top heavy...
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Finding relief from the pain
A 56-year-old Morell woman says the health-care team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown saved her life. Kathy Vail was an educational assistant prepping a student for transportation on a school bus more than seven years ago when she...
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BRANCHING OUT
Emily Bender sits inside a paper tree at The Chocolate Chicken in downtown Charlottetown, a bookstore and creative space she helps run with her mother, Melissa Bender, while sharing the legacy of her grandmother, children’s author and illustrator...
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UNIVERSITY PREP
Daisy Nguyen, from left, Gia Han Truong and Chieu Ngoc Trinh Bui touch up their makeup before heading out for UPEI’S convocation ceremony Wednesday for business and sustainable design engineering graduates. More than 1,300 students are graduating...
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Oyster supports get mixed reaction
For the second spring in a row, Islanders in the oyster industry are battling high oyster mortality rates, with many fearing financial losses and what the future holds. As of mid-may, both the provincial and federal governments have announced...
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‘It was not built with kids in mind’
Health P.E.I. is moving ahead with plans to relocate the province’s only unit dedicated to providing psychiatric care to children and youth to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital despite months of objections from clinicians. P.E.I.’S child and youth...
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EMERGENCY INTERVENTION
For many Islanders, pets are part of the family. But when a disaster happens, firefighters may not be equipped to take care of animals like cats or dogs. Charlottetown’s fire department is starting to change that, with a volunteer-led pilot program...
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SUPREME COURT SET TO WEIGH IN ON HUGE INDIGENOUS TITLE CLAIM
The clock began ticking April 7 on what could be one of the most important Supreme Court of Canada cases in New Brunswick’s history. That’s the date the country’s top court told several law firms involved in the Wolastoqey Nation’s landmark title...
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THANKS TO MOM
There’s an old saying in sports that mothers are the real MVPs. There is something special about the relationship between athletes and mothers. No one can relate and understand that more than Summerside D. Alex MacDonald Ford Western Capitals forward...
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CELEBRATING HERITAGE
Hundreds of people gathered at UPEI to celebrate the start of Asian Heritage Month. The celebration, now in its fourth year, brought together people living in P.E.I. who are from communities from across Asia, with performances, music, traditional...
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DOCTORS LOSING TRUST IN ISLAND GOVERNMENT
The former president of the Canadian Medical Association says P.E.I. physicians have lost trust in the government. Dr. Alika Lafontaine was the keynote speaker Monday at the Canadian Society of Physician Recruiters conference in...
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EQUAL PARTNERSHIP
There’s a new partner at the disaster response planning table in P.E.I. Abegweit First Nation is taking on a formal role in the province’s emergency measures system. Abegweit, the province and federal government signed a new 10-year joint EMO...
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ACCESSIBLE TAXI READY TO ROLL
A new on-demand accessible taxi pilot project is being launched in parts of P.E.I. The project is supported by a joint investment of $216,670 from the provincial government, the City of Charlottetown, the Town of Stratford and Cornwall. It will fund a...
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WHY IS WASHINGTON STILL SO ANGRY OVER BANS ON U.S. ALCOHOL?
It has been more than a year since most provinces banned U.S. alcohol from liquor store shelves, but the United States government is still feeling the hangover. Late last month, the issue of U.S. alcohol bans by every province except Alberta and...
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INTO THE WEEDS
P.E.I. A P.E.I. researcher and a biologist have developed a machine that crushes weeds at the Harrington research farm with the ultimate goal to reduce herbicide use on potatoes. Research scientist Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill and his partner, Nicolle...
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MLA PULLS CONFLICT OF INTEREST BILL
A Progressive Conservative backbencher has walked away from a bill he introduced that would have allowed Sidney Macewen, a lobster fisherman and MLA, to serve in cabinet. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Georgetown-pownal MLA Brendan Curran said he...
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P.E.I. FACING MOUNTING FINANCIAL PRESSURES
P.E.I. Across the Island, municipalities of all sizes are experiencing growing populations, rising costs and aging infrastructure. But while they all face similar difficulties, not all have the same resources needed to face them with ease,...
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READY FOR THE SEASON
A couple of well prepared and comfortable onlookers watch as a trap-laden boat heads for the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the lobster grounds along P.E.I.’S north shore on Tuesday. The season got underway a few days late on the north shore because of...
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FEDERAL FUNDING IS CLAWED BACK
Charlottetown is losing $1.26 million in federal funding after it failed to meet part of its commitments. The city signed a deal with the federal government in early 2024 for more than $10 million in funding to improve its housing development...
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MILITARY RECRUITMENT SOARS AFTER PAY RAISES, SOVEREIGNTY THREATS
The Canadian Armed Forces has recorded its highest recruitment levels in over three decades, enrolling 7,310 personnel in the last fiscal year. That’s up 600 new members year-over-year. Officials said the new numbers show strong or stable recruitment...
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DELAYED SEASON
Vessels are lined up at the wharf at Malpeque Harbour where the lobster fishing season, originally set to open today, has been delayed by weather and dredging concerns. Fishing in LFA 24 is now tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, with a conference call...
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FIRST-NAME PHARMACY
The first drugstore at Royalty Crossing in more than 20 years, Pike’s Pharmacy, began operations on April 7 with a grand opening set for later in May. Dan Pike, from Nackawic, N.B., but based in Fredericton, owns three other pharmacies in New...
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CHILLY START TO SEASON
Visiting P.E.I. for their first time, Beth Best, left, and her husband, Brad, from Ukiah, Calif., head back to Victory Cruise Line’s Victory 1, the first cruise ship of the year at Port Charlottetown on a cool morning on April 20. As part of a weeklong...
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FREE BOOK PROGRAM CUT
ATignish mother cannot understand why the P.E.I. government cut funding to a program that provides children with free books. Brenna Cowan said both of her daughters loved the Imagination Library program which sent them a book every month and was an...
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READY TO PLAY
STRATFORD, P.E.I. - Lisa Murphy said her world literally blew up when she started playing pickleball eight years ago. Murphy was on hand April 13 as the Atlantic Pickleball Club in Stratford threw open its doors and gave its members a sneak peek at...
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‘SCENARIOS ARE ALL EITHER BAD OR VERY, VERY BAD’
D.C. Grocery prices are elevated, gas prices are high, job markets are cooling, and U.S. President Donald Trump is sticking to his tariff plans while the world eyes a shaky ceasefire with Iran. The truce between the U.S. and Iran has raised hopes and...
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