Premier Dennis King describes negotiations with Ottawa over carbon pricing as “frustrating,” as the P.E.I. premier tries to get an extension to an exemption on the tax for home heating oil.
A rewrite of P.E.I.'s child protection legislation will end up making it harder to access records to review how government services affect children, says the province's child and youth advocate.
With rents rising and empty apartments getting harder to find, P.E.I.'s Official Opposition took the PC government to task Wednesday for what it characterized as a failure to address the province's housing crisis.
Posted: May 04, 2021 9:56 PM AT | Last Updated: May 5
An operating room at Prince County Hospital in Summerside. Two of the hospital s three surgeons are leaving at the end of June. Health PEI revealed Tuesday the hospital s third surgeon has been on administrative leave since late 2020.(Prince County Hospital Foundation)
P.E.I. Health Minister Ernie Hudson says surgeons from Charlottetown will cover off shifts at the Prince County Hospital after the end of June, if necessary, as staffing issues at the Summerside Hospital dominated another question period in the provincial legislature Tuesday.
Health PEI has confirmed two of the three surgeons at the hospital are leaving, with their last day on June 30. One has resigned, and the second is a locum who is not renewing their term. The agency also says one surgeon at the hospital has been on administrative leave since late 2020 information that has not previously been brought forward during debate in the legislature.