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His time to go: Well-known P.E.I. businessman ends ‘wonderful’ life on his own terms
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Blood moon rising: P.E.I. amateur astronomer urges Atlantic Canadians to look skyward Sunday
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - Glenn Roberts was only eight years old when he started eyeing the sky with great interest. The fascination of looking heavenward has never left the 71-year-old avid amateur astronomer from Stratford, ...
Receivers seeking purchaser for P.E.I.-based Diversified Metal Engineering
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - Charlottetown-based Diversified Metal Engineering (DME) could be saved. The receivers – Alvarez and Marsal Canada Inc. – told The Guardian Tuesday there is a “good chance’’ somebody will buy ...
Councillor says hiring of Peter Kelly as Charlottetown CAO 'unnecessarily risky'
Doiron says residents of the municipality have frequently asked him why the city would hire someone “with a sketchy background’’ to such a prominent position. Now comes the potentially damning report. A municipal inspection report released Wednesday ...
‘Pure terror’ on a P.E.I. beach
“Then within a minute,’’ says Johnston, “it was pure terror.’’ The pair had been splashing in the waves Saturday around 8 p.m., snapping photos with a sports underwater camera. After just a handful of minutes in the water, however, Johnston’s ...
VIDEO: Charlottetown’s Helen Keating seeks zippy thrill for 75th birthday
On Tuesday, Helen Keating celebrated her milestone birthday more than a month late by climbing up wooden steps to a platform about 35 feet above ground before unflinchingly hurtling along a zip line for 600 feet of adrenaline rush. “It was very ...
P.E.I. hockey player sentenced to 30 days for assaulting referee in Pownal
Cole Trevor Crane, who will serve the sentence on an intermittent basis to allow him to work at his summer job, was also placed on probation for 18 months. Chief Provincial Court Judge Nancy Orr ordered Crane to write an apology to the referee, John ...
Smallpox-laced blankets no reason to change Amherst name: Parks Canada
John Joe Sark, a member of the Mi’kmaq Nation traditional government, is strongly urging the name of General Jeffery Amherst be scrubbed from Port-la-Joye-Fort Amherst historic site. Sark recently handed in his Order of P.E.I. in protest of the ...
P.E.I. couple duped by sophisticated computer, telephone fraudsters
A sophisticated scam cost an Island couple tens of thousands of dollars. If not for alert bank employees, the loss could have been considerably higher. The Guardian recently reported that Charlottetown police are warning the public of a scam after a ...
Air Canada first messes up flight, then the apology, for Charlottetown family
Doyle describes the overall treatment by Air Canada as “pretty negative.’’ First, the airline bumped his boy from a prepaid flight to Costa Rica. Doyle says Air Canada made a debacle of the scheduled flight for the family of four from Charlottetown ...