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#154: Tetsuro's one man play, Summerside homeless and revisiting Swiss Air crash site
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast Tetsuro Shigematsu and his acclaimed one-person play called Empire of the Son, we’ll hear from a man living on the streets in Summerside and an Island doctor revisits Peggy's Cove 25 years after crash.
1/1/1 • 28 minutes, 41 seconds
#151: Police complaints, ferry future and injection site boil over
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, how police deal with complaints about police, concerns for the future of the P.E.I. ferry service and a heated and passionate meeting to discuss the future home for a safe injection site.
1/1/1 • 26 minutes, 18 seconds
#146: Female commander, hospital closures and anti racism
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, for the first time ever, the H-M-C-S Queen Charlotte has a female commanding officer, P.E.I. post Covid-19 hospital closures and Paramedics on P-E-I recently got some new training on how to be anti-racist.
1/1/1 • 24 minutes, 23 seconds
#145: Margaritaville, funeral home money and bad winter
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast Lennie Gallant is collaborating with the legendary Jimmy Buffett, Dawson Funeral Home victims wrote a letter to the editor recently asking how pre-paid funeral costs
weren't better managed and Snowmobilers are hoping this year's lack of snow in most of the province is just a blip.
1/1/1 • 19 minutes, 46 seconds
#149: No ferry service, Green Party leader resigns, UPEI report reaction
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, how the trucking industry is being affected by the continuing ferry cancellations , Peter Bevan Baker on his resignation this weekend from the Green Party and reaction to the scathing UPEI report from the faculty association.
1/1/1 • 35 minutes, 31 seconds
#153: New drum helps, Islanders in wildfires
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a boy on Lennox Island with limited mobility has a custom-made drum thanks to a group of engineering students, Susan Fitksy will tell us more about the 25-hour journey with her family to make it to safety and a labour and delivery nurse from PEI who stayed behind to help evacuate a hospital.
1/1/1 • 22 minutes, 42 seconds
#150 : Losing windfarm, LGBTQ memory loss and surviving wildfires
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a wind farm in Eastern PEI is losing millions of dollars a year, LGBTQ plus may deal with memory loss differently, and threatened by wildfires in Nova Scotia one week before production starts.
1/1/1 • 24 minutes, 5 seconds
#144: Potato Blossom Festival, Mi'kmaq language and marathon family
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, the PEI Potato Blossom Festival in O'Leary was headed for the history books....until a last minute save, Mi'kmaq Language class to help in sharing culture and more about how a trio of mother and daughters on P.E.I. are gearing for the Boston Marathon.
1/1/1 • 20 minutes, 17 seconds
#148: UPEI allegations, Steven's lawyer and 1000 times donating blood
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a new report says UPEI did not deal allegations of harassment , a Summerside family acquires top lawyer to sue Summerside police for 6 million and 90 year old Ewen Stewart became the first Islander to donate blood eleven-hundred and sixty two times.
1/1/1 • 23 minutes, 38 seconds
#152: Anorexia research, Radon in PEI schools and Changes to Habitat for Humanity qualifications
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, new research into Islanders with eating disorders, four PEI schools have higher than acceptable levels of radon, and rising housing costs have impacted Habitat for Humanity program
1/1/1 • 26 minutes, 32 seconds
#147: Evacuated, Fiona and Cruise dad
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, escaping the forest fire in her Hammonds Plains neighborhood, how Fiona changed Islanders, personally and emotionally and dream cruise comes true after 87 years.
1/1/1 • 26 minutes, 26 seconds
#155: Fiona book, addiction site specialist and new Missing Person's Act
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a new book on the post-tropical storm Fiona and its impact on the landscape of the province, an addiction specialist reviews proposed injection site and an Island mother uses New Missing Persons Act to track her son.
1/1/1 • 31 minutes, 28 seconds
#156: Chief Darlene Bernard, eagle feather affirmation and new Mawiomi Centre
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast Lennox Island Chief Darlene Bernard with thoughts on Truth and Reconciliation Day, the Eagle Feather is now one of the options that people can swear an oath on at courts on P.E.I. and the Mawiomi Student Centre at UPEI helps both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students connect to Indigenous cultures.
1/1/1 • 4 minutes, 32 seconds
#157: Order of P.E.I., French school crowding and first indigenous premier
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, we'll hear from three new members of the Order of P.E.I., French schools that have to deal with the influx of students and local reaction to Wab Kinew's big win in Manitoba as the first indigenous premier of a Canadian province.
1/1/1 • 22 minutes, 45 seconds
#158: United by song, no service at foodbank and outrage in Murray Harbour
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, an annual concert that highlights personal stories of people who have benefitted from United Way supported programs, a PEI food bank had to turn people away because of a sharp increase in demand and Murray Harbour council hears reaction from outraged indigenous leader.
1/1/1 • 27 minutes, 55 seconds
#159: Death of funeral, problem gambling and refusing funding
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast we explore the death of the traditional funeral, a survey looking at the rate of gambling in PEI arrived at some troubling conclusions and some of the provincial funds aimed mainly at helping improve wages for workers, left untouched.
1/1/1 • 32 minutes, 1 second
#160: Mi'kmaw sisters honoured, Belfast Mini Mills international success
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, we'll hear about two Lennox Island sisters who were honoured for thier service during the Second World War and why Belfast Mini Mills had to close its storefront to focus on international orders.
1/1/1 • 24 minutes, 33 seconds
Introducing: Good Question, P.E.I.
Whether you’ve been an Islander for six months or sixty years - you'll know there's just something special about this quirky little place. In our new podcast, we're answering your questions on this giant sandbar we call home. It can be about anything - big or small, serious or silly. We'll use our sources, the archives and hit the streets to find the answers.
1/1/1 • 2 minutes, 7 seconds
How do you get a family doctor?
Are you struggling to get a family doctor? You’re not alone. There are 36,000 Islanders on the waitlist. So, what’s the problem, and what can we do to land a spot in a practice? We get advice from a family doctor and find out what's really going on with the registry.
1/1/1 • 18 minutes, 6 seconds
Will P.E.I. ever get a Costco?
Debating upgrading to that executive membership? We're finding out why Costco, and big box warehouse stores like it, haven't set up shop here on the Island yet. Will we ever get one? And would it be a good, or bad thing for P.E.I.?
1/1/1 • 19 minutes
#133:Dave Morrow, real estate after Fiona and renoviction in Summerside
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast another of PEI's Unsung Heroes...Dave Morrow, real estate laws when dealing with Fiona and residents of the Causeway Bay motel in Summerside are being threatened with eviction again.
• 33 minutes, 42 seconds
#142: Canada games volunteers, inclusive games and Cavendish concert on again
This week on P.E.I. Pulse Podcast, three of the nearly 5,000 volunteers who have helped host the Canada Games here on P.E.I., we'll meet a few Para athletes who are competing this week and hear why it's important for the Games to be inclusive and why Cavendish overturned their vote earlier this week and approved a second musical festival taking place in the community this July.
• 23 minutes, 28 seconds
#139: College of Piping, spanking ban and black history curriculum
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, the College of Piping has been named in his honor of founder Scott MacAulay, Senator Stan Kutcher wants spanking of children banned in Canada and a new project will soon be incorporating Black women's history into some grade 7 social studies classes .
• 23 minutes, 39 seconds
#135: Aids Documentary, Shoreline armoring and hockey suspensions
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a new documentary film about the early days of HIV/AIDS on the Island, 'shoreline armoring' and who should pay for protecting PEI shorelines and a report from Hockey PEI on bullying and harassment complaints.
• 29 minutes, 44 seconds
#137 : Lennon House founder fired, illegal trap death and the Garage Gang
This week on P.E.I. Pulse podcast, the Lennon Recovery House board, fires founder, P.E.I. dog killed in illegal snare trap and the 'Garage Gang' is still on the go after 40 years.
• 29 minutes, 54 seconds
#138: Canada Games medals, hotels and nearsightedness
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, designing a new Canada Games medal, facing the nearsightedness epidemic and how quickly hotels are booking up in advance of the Canada Games.
• 22 minutes, 55 seconds
#134: History of mussels, solar boat and Shepherds of Good Hope
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, sharing Island mussel history...from nuisance to delicacy, converting a water taxi from the 1967 Montreal Expo into a solar powered tour boat and PEI gets inspired by the Shepherds of Good Hope homeless shelter.
• 34 minutes, 10 seconds
#140: Little Women, lost Farmland and 15 yr old hockey star
This week on P.E.I. Pulse Podcast , Little Women is a father's gift to his daughter, exploring the the reasons P.E.I. is losing farmland at a rate we haven't seen since the 1970s and 15-year-old Brian Zhang is one of the athletes chosen to represent P.E.I. at the Canada Games in men's hockey.
• 24 minutes, 33 seconds
#141: Ripple Effect, Province House Death and Closed Charlottetown
This week on P.E.I. Pulse Podcast, stories about Islanders working to support one another and build positive change, the family of a P.E.I. man found dead says police, health system failed him and Charlottetown council's frequent closed door meetings.
• 34 minutes, 39 seconds
#136: Gun ban concerns and surviving inflation
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, Island gun owners are worried about the latest 'gun ban' amendments, and a new series on how Islanders are surviving the the soaring cost of inflation.