Island women fight for access in their own province

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND— Kandace Hagen expected her nomination for a youth social justice award to be…

Don’t you love hate it when that happens? Idiot Fetus Fetishist tries to bully a young pro-choice woman and the attempt backfires. Spectacularly. (OK, ‘spectacularly’ for little PEI.) There’s an annual online contest to promote …

Don’t you love hate it when that happens?Idiot Fetus Fetishist tries to bully a young pro-choice woman and the attempt backfires. Spectacularly. (OK, ‘spectacularly’ for little PEI.)There’s an annual online contest to promote youth leadership in the o…

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If a woman in PEI needs an abortion, she either has to pay her own travel costs to go to a hospital in Halifax or come up with almost $1,000 to get the procedure done privately at the Morgentaler clinic in Fredricton. Bronwyn Rodd is with the newly-fo…

Anonymous Liberal Sources stole a moment of PEI Premier Robert Ghiz’s time during his…

The Ghosts of Hydro-Quebec and NALCO:  A pair of readers fired off separate e-mails to point out an alternate  explanation for the “anything cabinet decides they can do” clause from the energy corporation legislation than the tack SRBP to…

The Ghosts of Hydro-Quebec and NACLO:  A pair of readers fired off separate e-mails to point out an alternate  explanation for the “anything cabinet decides they can do” clause from the energy corporation legislation than the tack SRBP to…

All is well at Whimfield Farm.
We’ve built a deck that wraps around the front of the house. It has a roof. (Does that make it a verandah?)
The kitchen still isn’t complete. (Still washing dishes in the bathroom sink.)
Still no pets or house…

Can be best described as non-existent. According to the CBC’s The Current, some women are so desperate to terminate their pregnancies  that they self-induce. Those who are able to afford the expense are required to travel to Fredericton or H…

The Prime Minister responds to the complaints of Ontario and Quebec about his government’s…

Assorted content to end your week.- Both Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page and Interim Auditor General John Wiersema are rightly ripping the Cons for their complete unwillingness to be honest about how they’re wasting public money. But then, the …

Assorted content to end your week.- Both Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page and Interim Auditor General John Wiersema are rightly ripping the Cons for their complete unwillingness to be honest about how they’re wasting public money. But then, the …

The Liberals appear set to be reelected in Prince Edward Island with 21 22 seats…

I’m a bit behind on writing due to work and dealing with poor weather, which tends to stunt my motivation to be creative. This incredibly soggy weather that Halifax has been living through drove me north to Prince Edward Island last weekend. The sun decided to show me some love, which meant I could finally [...]

Photo Du Jour – Brackley Beach, Prince Edward Island is a post from: I Backpack Canada

It’s been a wonderful and relaxing weekend and we ended it today by taking a walk out in the woods.  I’ve been spending so much time in the garden lately that we haven’t been for a walk in some time.  So we packed up our backpacks and drove out to Br…

I’ve written over 200 articles here about our story of how we moved to Prince Edward Island. For months now I’ve known that I needed to close the book on the Whimfield chapter of our lives.
How does our story end? In true Whimfield style, i…

Last week when we went to use the snowblower for the first time this Winter, Cameron noticed a hornet’s (wasp’s? some buzzing insects, anyway) nest that had been carefully built there over the Summer.
Doesn’t the wonder of nature and…