Saturday afternoon racing at  Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park gets underway shortly….start time is 1230

After switching up tactics his last two starts, Rollwithhottytoddy will try to make it three-straight in the afternoon feature. 

Catch all the action live at the track or tune into the worldwide broadcast at Redshores.ca.  

The Shawinigan Cataractes went to a shootout to edge the Charlottetown Islanders in the QMJHL.

Matthew Butler had a goal and two assists for the Islanders. 

Tonight, the Islanders host Acadie Bathurst at 7

In the Maritime Junior league…Summerside Western Capitals are in Yarmouth this evening. 

The UPEI women’s Panthers playoff chances continue to fade as they were shutout 3-0 by St. FX.

UPEI has lost four straight and 7 of its last 8.

Tea (tee-ah) Pearce had a goal and two assists and Brooklyn Oakes made 20 saves in the nets.

UPEI hosts  #1 nationally ranked UNB in men’s hockey at 7.00 tonight (Saturday).

The Panthers have won three in a row.

Both UPEI womens and mens basketball panthers play in ST FX tonight with game times of 6 and 8pm

NBA 

The Toronto Raptors meet the New York Knicks tonight. 

NHL

All seven Canadian NHL teams are in action today for Hockey Day in Canada. 

The Habs and the Bruins play tonight at 8 …The Leafs meet the Canucks, also at 8

An organization that helps Prince Edward Island families with the cost of travel to medical appointments outside the province says demand has increased drastically.

P.E.I. Cannabis is set to open a new retail location on Monday, this time in the Town of Stratford.

Two years ago, Alison Millard resigned from her permanent position at Prince County Hospital because she felt 'suffocated and drowning' in P.E.I.’s health-care system. She hopes a letter signed by 42 doctors will finally draw action from government.

A ship believed responsible for spilling fuel into the Hillsborough River is still tied up in Charlottetown Harbour — and officials still haven't said how much fuel spilled into the tidal estuary or when it might be cleaned up.

According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, P.E.I. ranks last among all the provinces when it comes to access to a regular health-care provider. In 2022, 76 per cent of Islanders surveyed said they had a primary care provider, down nine percentage points from three years before.

New Annan resident Maggie Campbell talks about the challenges and fears involved in raising three young kids without a family doctor — and with only a hospital emergency department to lean on.

Brighton Clover Farm sells a little bit of everything, but it's also a place where people come together. ‘It's a long 50 years, but it's been a very joyous 50 years,’ says Shadi Sahely, whose parents bought the store in January 1974.

Getting farm equipment back to work in the fields quickly can be essential for farmers, and their ability to do that themselves is also a big part of growing food in a sustainable way.

The Province is inviting residents to share their opinion on changes to provincial laws in PEI.

The Department of Justice and Public Safety continues to regularly modernize provincial legislation and consultation documents for three pieces of legislation are now posted online.  They include the Fire Safety Act; An Act to Amend the Credit Unions Act; and An Act to Amend the Jury Act.

Islanders are being encouraged to review the documents on the government webpage and submit their input to help guide the change.  Comments can be submitted online to [email protected] until February 15th.

Two youths charged with the murder of a 17-year-old on PEI remain in custody.  Both are facing a first-degree murder charge.  One of the youths has been denied bail and the other consented to remain in custody.  Their identities are protected from publication under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Both are due back in court on February 22.

About 45 physicians have endorsed a letter being sent to the public – a letter from the East Prince Medical Staff Association indicating that an emergency exists regarding critical and acute care services at Prince County Hospital. It says their challenges include the ongoing lack of capacity for local internal medicine and critical care, and the impending loss of 24/7 in-house respiratory therapy coverage. They say they write the letter as physician leaders with 17 months of experience of decreased critical care capacity at PCH; and over that time they say staff have struggled to continue to provide essential care in a safe fashion in the face of crippling human resource gaps. The letter says that at present, without permanent sustainable solutions to maintain critical care services at PCH, no ICU-level medicine will be available west of Charlottetown. The East Prince Medical Staff Association says Impacts and reductions will be felt in all services at PCH, and they’re concerned that these reduced services will become the “new normal.” 

The Glasgow Hills Golf Course has partnered with local recreation groups to create a 10-kilometre trail system for hiking, fat biking, walking and snowshoeing. Come take a look.

Critical and acute care services at Summerside's Prince County Hospital are facing an emergency that requires swift and drastic action, according to a letter signed by a group of doctors who work in and with P.E.I.'s second largest hospital.

Tremploy has officially opened its new 24,000-square-foot facility on Regis Duffy Drive in Charlottetown. Tremploy is a PEI-based non-profit that provides adults who have an intellectual disability with vocational training, life skills training, life enrichment and support programming. They also offer one-to-one service and employment opportunities. 

The $10.2 million Tremploy Skills Development Centre was funded with over $3.8 million in federal contributions, while the provincial government’s support included just over $2 million from the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure. The Department of Social Development and Seniors contributed $250,000 over five years through Tremploy’s Capital Campaign.

P.E.I. drivers will pay a little more for gas and diesel Friday morning, but heating oil prices did not change.

There are now two public safety cameras up and operating in Stratford along the Trans Canada Highway, and Hillsborough Bridge – which is the main traffic corridor through Stratford. The cameras are being operated by Charlottetown Police on their pre-existing E-Watch camera network, and Stratford RCMP will have access to review footage.  The RCMP says the cameras could strategically help with all kinds of investigations, whether examining a collision, looking for a stolen car, or helping find a suspect.  They are not speed enforcement cameras and will not be live monitored.

Health PEI is indicating that later this month, Prince County Hospital will be accepting fewer critical-care patients due to a lack of staff in the progressive-care unit.  Health P.E.I. had said earlier this week that it was considering either cutti ng services or temporarily closing the unit to deal with the staffing shortage.  It’s expected that in about a week the unit’s capacity will be reduced.   Health PEI officials are stressing though that anyone needing medical care should continue to go to the emergency room at Prince County Hospital.  

The Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission has approved increases in gasoline and diesel prices.   The price of regular gasoline increased overnight by 4.2 cents per litre. The price of diesel went up by 2.0 cents per litre.  There was no change in the price of furnace oil.  Including taxes, pump prices for regular self-serve gasoline now range from 158.2 to 159.4 cents per litre.  Diesel costs 198.3 to 199.4 cents per litre. The maximum price for furnace oil is 143.9 cents per litre.

The manager of the Glasgow Hills Golf Course is taking what he learned about winter recreation in Whistler, B.C., and applying it on P.E.I.'s North Shore.

A community hub in Charlottetown is celebrating a big milestone. Brighton Clover Farm has been running under the same family for 50 years.

Health P.E.I. clinics at the Polyclinic Professional Centre in Charlottetown will remain closed on Thursday following a small fire in the cafe earlier this week. 

Ron Howse has made it his mission to find out more about a pile of bones he found while walking along his local beach in Souris.

Carmen Reeves of Shamrock will be on the ballot for the Progressive Conservatives in that by-election.  Reeves won the nomination Tuesday night over Jordan Johnston, Brian Nash, and Renée Pastoor.

The date is set for the by-election in District 19 Borden-Kinkora.  At the PC Party of PEI’s nomination meeting for the district Tuesday night, Premier Dennis King announced that the by-election will be held on February 5th.  King had indicated that the by-election would be held before MLAs return to the provincial legislature for the spring session.  Voters will be casting ballots to fill the vacancy that was left with the resignation in mid-November of former MLA Jamie Fox, who will be running federally.

With this storm on the way, the City of Charlottetown reminding everyone of the overnight on-street parking restrictions that are in place until April 15th. 

The restrictions prohibit parking on all municipal roads between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. seven days a week, regardless of current or forecasted weather conditions. Vehicles parked on municipal roads during the restricted hours may be issued a parking ticket and/or towed at the owner’s expense.

Residents in Borden-Kinkora, will select a new MLA to represent them in the P.E.I. legislature on Feb. 5. 

Due to the weather forecast, all classes in the Public Schools Branch and French Language School Board are cancelled for Wednesday.

A very windy, and messy forecast for PEI on Wednesday as PEI is under a province-wide Wind Warning with those winds getting stronger through the day.  They’ll be gusting to 60kh by late morning, and then gusting southeasterly to 90 km/h in  the afternoon through the early evening.  There will likely be power outages as a result of downed trees or tree branches.  Snow will begin Wednesday morning and then change to rain mixed with snow in the afternoon. Snowfall amounts totalling 5 to 10 cm in Kings and Queens are expected. Prince County will see a little more snow with 10 to 15cm possible.  Blowing snow will be an issue in areas by late in the morning as we see those winds increase.  That snow will transition to rain mixed with snow at times in the afternoon with 5 to 10 mm possible.

The weather is set to bring lots of wind to P.E.I. and could be an issue for drivers as snow is expected to start falling around mid-morning before changing to rain by the afternoon.

P.E.I. MLAs heard more details Tuesday about the problems plaguing cellphone users on the Island — including poor reception and persistent dropped calls — but didn't hear much about solutions.

A woman on made harness racing history in 2023, becoming the first female trainer to record the most wins on the season at the historic Charlottetown Driving Park.  She made the leap to training full time in 2023, and she's happy that it paid off.

The majority of Health P.E.I.’s workers don’t have their latest COVID-19 booster or their annual flu shot, despite some new efforts to get them vaccinated.

'The university is showing its willingness. I think there is some really good things baked into the plan, including regular audits, regular monitoring of what's happening,' says Jane Ledwell, executive director of the P.E.I. Advisory Council on the Status of Women.

Another airline has announced plans to provide service out of YYG Charlottetown Airport.   Lynx Air is adding service for Charlottetown starting on May 30, 2024.  Charlottetown will be the 22nd destination served by Lynx across North America. Lynx Air, described as an ultra-affordable airline, will operate flights between YYG Charlottetown Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport with through service to Calgary International Airport.

Initially, there will be four flights in and out of Charlottetown per week starting on May 30, 2024 — and that will increase to six flights per week in and out of Charlottetown as of June 10. The Charlottetown – Calgary flights will operate as “through flights” with a short stop in Toronto.   

A low-cost airline will begin offering new flights between Charlottetown and Calgary starting in May, with early one-way boarding passes available for as little as $59.  

Changes to P.E.I.'s Planning Act mean there could be fewer appeals filed that will slow down, or altogether stop, apartment building construction on P.E.I. CBC's Cody MacKay explains how a small wording change in legislation could make a difference.

The federal government and City of Summerside have reached an agreement that will provide the city with $5.8 million from the federal Housing Accelerator Fund to fast track 132 housing units in the next three years.

Danny Kelly is the new Mayor-Elect of Morell.  Voters in Morell went to the polls yesterday in a mayoral by-election.  After the votes were tallied, the community announced that Danny Kelly was the winner over the only other candidate, Corrine Hendricken-Eldershaw.  

Community leaders and the PEI Coalition for Women in Government have opened applications for the first Girls & Gender-Diverse Youth Parliament. Taking place over three days and two-nights from March 7th to 9th, the project will allow girls and gender-diverse youth a chance to discuss the provincial issues that matter most to them.  A Girl’s Parliament was originally planned for March 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic; and the Coalition is grateful for the opportunity to carry the project forward.

A proposal by the province to move Charlottetown's Community Outreach Centre isn't enough, says Coun. Mitchell Tweel.

All three Counties in PEI are now under a Wind Warning for Wednesday afternoon and early evening.  Maximum wind gusts of near 90 km/h are expected during that time frame.  Damage to buildings, such as to roof shingles and windows, may occur. High winds may also result in power outages and fallen tree branches.

Combined with the high winds, we’ll see snow beginning in the morning then changing to rain mixed with snow late in the afternoon. Blowing snow over exposed areas late in the morning and early afternoon. Snowfall amounts of  5 to 10 cm are expected for Kings and Queens, while Prince County could see 10 to 15cm of snow.  That snow will be followed by 5 to 10 mm in rain. 

A winter storm that will sweep over the Maritimes will be bringing more wind than snow to P.E.I.

With the flu and COVID making the rounds this winter, Island workers are still waiting for answers on when they’ll get access to more paid sick leave.

Late Sunday afternoon, at about 5:20 pm, Charlottetown Police responded to a weapon complaint at a gas station/convenience store on Capital Drive. Police learned that a woman had been in the store and dropped a hand gun.  She picked it up, placed it in her purse, left the store and drove off.  In reviewing the surveillance video, police were able to identify the suspect.  At about 11:00pm Sunday, the Charlottetown Police Street Crime Unit located the suspect vehicle and pulled it over in the Hillsborough Park area.   The woman was arrested and a bb hand gun was located and seized.  A 34 year old Charlottetown woman has been charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose and possession of a weapon contrary to a prohibition order.   She was released with conditions and will soon appear in Provincial Court.

Just after midnight on Saturday morning, a Charlottetown Police officer spotted a vehicle that was previously reported as having a possible impaired driver.  The officer conducted a traffic stop on the Malpeque Road, north of the Arterial Highway, and the driver showed signs of being impaired by alcohol.  They were arrested and the 20 year old Charlottetown man was charged with impaired  after providing breath samples that were almost twice the legal limit..

Members of the women's ice hockey team at UPEI have been watching the launch of the Professional Women's Hockey League closely — some for the inspiration and others to cheer on family members.

Starting Tuesday, students who have been having to wait for a ride to school near a busy Charlottetown intersection will be able to catch their bus at a safer location. 

A former single-room school in St. Hubert, P.E.I., has special meaning for Louis Arsenault. It has been closed for decades and was converted into a home, but Arsenault still wants to collect memories from its history.

Morell is holding its mayoral by-election Monday.  The polls are open until 7 pm and are located at 12 Sunset Crescent. 

Voters are reminded that you need to bring some form of identification with you when you go to vote.  

The candidates for Mayor are Corrine Hendricken-Eldershaw and Danny Kelly.

A ceremony will be held at Rideau Hall Monday to make an Islander interim Government House Leader.  Gatineau Liberal MP Steven MacKinnon, who’s originally from Charlottetown, will be sworn in as he takes on the responsibilities on an interim basis for Karina Gould, who’s going on parental leave to welcome her second child.  As Government House Leader, he’ll be responsible for handling the government’s legislative agenda.