The rising fuel prices that are causing grief for Island drivers and consumers are also being reflected in the expense accounts of P.E.I. cabinet ministers.
The minister responsible for child protection in P.E.I. is promising 'a third-party, external review' of how officials decided to send an Island boy to Calgary to live with a father he barely knew, rather than let him stay with the maternal grandmother who had cared for him for years.
Liberal MLA Gord McNeilly is calling for an investigation into the death of Donnie Handrahan, who died in November after being denied a bed in a Charlottetown homeless shelter.
Inflation on P.E.I. is higher than it has been in decades and it's also been the highest in the country for months. Premier Dennis King has put much of the blame at the feet of oil prices, but that's not the whole story.