Posted: Mar 12, 2021 5:50 PM AT | Last Updated: March 12 comments
Liberal Sonny Gallant, top left, and Opposition leader Peter Bevan-Baker, bottom left, peppered Premier Dennis King, top right, and Health Minister Ernie Hudson, lower right, with questions about what they called government s privatization of mobile mental-health units. (P.E.I. Legislative Assembly)
A controversial change to the way the Prince Edward Island government plans to run a long-awaited mobile mental-health crisis service dominated question period in the provincial legislature Friday.
The province plans to have three mobile units one based in each of P.E.I. s counties able to respond to people experiencing a mental health crisis, along with a 24-hour phone line as a first point of contact for those in distress. The units will operate 12 hours a day, from noon until midnight, and are to be staffed by a mental health professional, a plain-clothes police officer and a paramedic.
The P.E.I. Green Party is raising concerns about a move by government to allow existing holding ponds and the agricultural wells that feed into them to continue operating indefinitely after the province’s new Water Act is proclaimed in June.
Why some don t believe a basic income is the best way to reduce poverty on P.E.I.
The CEO of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce has concerns about how a basic income pilot project on P.E.I. could affect businesses already struggling to find and keep staff.
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Posted: Feb 19, 2021 11:42 AM AT | Last Updated: February 19
Penny Walsh-McGuire, CEO of the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce, has sent a letter to the P.E.I. legislature’s special committee on poverty, asking it to consult with business groups on plans for a basic income guarantee. (CBC)
Fentanyl is a powerful opioid doctors say is 50- to 100-times stronger than morphine.
Dr. Heather Morrison appeared before the legislative standing committee on health and social development Wednesday afternoon.(P.E.I. Legislative Assembly) Based on the numbers, we certainly have seen more overdoses that seem to have fentanyl involved in those overdoses and that s what has changed, said Morrison. And so that s of concern.
Morrison was briefing the legislative standing committee on health and social development Wednesday afternoon.
We re looking at trying to protect everybody.
- Dr. Heather Morrison
The CPHO gave an overview of the overdose situation and said those affected cover all age groups and are from across the province.
Islanders call on health minister for midwifery update
Islanders lobbying to have midwives regulated and allowed to practise within P.E.I. s publicly funded health-care system are calling on the health minister to provide a new timeline for when that will happen.
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