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P.E.I. Pulse brings together the best audio from CBC P.E.I.'s airwaves. Host Mitch Cormier shares interesting stories about Islanders and the things that matter to P.E.I. every week.
It’s 4:45 in the morning and, as always, there are cars outside the Sherwood Medical Centre, filled with Islanders desperate to see a doctor. We talk to some patients who are having to get up in the middle of the night to get the care they need.
Community fridges on PEI are supposed to help hungry Islanders — but some volunteers are seeing cracks in this approach. We speak to food security experts about what’s going on, and what can be done to help those in need.
P.E.I. limits who can own land, and how much. But are the rules being followed? Reporter Kerry Campbell discovered corporations with ties to the Irving family own more than four times what’s allowed. This week, we dig into, whose land is this land?
New name, same must-listen podcast. This is your connection to the stories P.E.I. is talking about. Hosted by proud Islander Mitch Cormier.
We venture out to answer how our counties got their names, but end up with a stickier geography lesson. Can Islanders come to a consensus? And who has the final say?
Islanders love their ice cream. To celebrate summer, we're talking about what makes us go nuts for dairy bars. And as it turns out... business is booming!
We’re going to school this week... community school. So what is it? Who can attend? And how has it lasted almost 60 years?
Eastern P.E.I. is home to a herd of bison, but how did they get here? Who takes care of them? And is it true people used to eat them? We share the tale.
P.E.I. could ban today's children from EVER buying cigarettes. Does that include vapes and nicotine pouches too? How would it even work? The CBC's Laura Meader walks us through the plan.
Wait a second, I thought we didn't have those!? But now some are saying there are poisonous brown recluse spiders on the Island, and this week, we get to the bottom of that mystery.
The mighty spud is synonymous with P.E.I., but now Alberta may be coming for our crown. What will it mean if the P.E.I. potato is no longer number one? Host Nicola MacLeod and This is Edmonton host Clare Bonnyman join forces.
With rising rents and a low vacancy rate, many Islanders feel rental housing within their budget is becoming harder to find. But do affordable units still exist? And who are they affordable for? We speak with renters, advocates and the province.
The P.E.I. accent is distinctive and unique, but have you ever wondered why we say ‘worsh’ and not ‘wash’ or ‘slippy’ instead of ‘slippery’? The answers might surprise you. ‘Magine!
Sticker shock got you down? You’re not alone. But where is the money from our purchases going? And does it make a difference if you buy local? Farmers, grocers and shoppers weigh in on P.E.I.’s food system.
P.E.I.'s recreational striped bass fishery has taken off, but why? And where did the fish come from? We'll reel you in.
The story of P.E.I.’s (disastrous) railroad is intrinsically linked to our place in Canada, but could moving toward greener transportation bring us back to the almighty train? Guest co-host Travis Kingdon hopes so.
We are taking a short break and coming back with new episodes in two weeks. In the meantime - send your questions to goodquestionpei@cbc.ca
It's hard to find any corner of the Island not touched by post-tropical storm Fiona. Especially in the woods. Replanting has started, but what should we be planting? And can the species we choose help P.E.I. build resiliency against climate change?
She's a legend, she's an icon. Anne (with an 'E') needs no introduction for most Canadians, let alone Islanders. But how did Lucy Maud Montgomery's books and characters become so popular? And why do people come here from all over the world? We hear from Islanders and an expert on Anne and Montgomery's legacy.
Lots of other provinces allow it. People are certainly asking for it. So, what's preventing us from enjoying a beer or a glass of wine at a picnic? We talk about the influence of prohibition, culture, and the pandemic, and how they flow into our current rules here.
The idea of a basic income guarantee — making sure everyone has enough money in their bank accounts to live — has been floated on P.E.I. for years. A recent report says the Island is the perfect trial ground for the rest of the country. So what's the holdup? Trish Altass is here to explain how it would work and bust some myths.
Calling all political nerds! This one is for you. The P.E.I. legislature opens for the spring sitting next week. CBC's Kerry Campbell stops by to break it down and answer your questions about the room where it happens.
Anyone who crosses the bridge has to pay at least $50, but is that fair? Should Islanders get to come and go for free, or at least at a discount? We look at the complicated relationship Islanders have with the Confederation Bridge, and how the bridge has changed Island life.
Didn't the government promise one years ago? And what's the deal with harm reduction? The opioid crisis has made its mark on the Island, and the CBC's Tony Davis explains why it's been so difficult to do anything about it.
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.?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast bringing you one-on-one interviews with each of the four major party leaders during this 2023 Provincial Election Campaign.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, islanders living with chronic conditions are preparing to live without power for multiple days, family seeks answers in the death of Jamie Sark and what relatives of a woman with Huntington's would like to see change following a decision by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of P-E-I.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast a racist motivated attack in Evangeline, Northumberland Ferries encountered its second major issue of the 2022 season and Lieutenant Governor Antoinette Perry shares her memories of Queen Elizabeth.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, award-winning singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume, the City of Charlottetown's financial woes with yet another staff departure and Abegweit First Nation's request to change the name of the neighbouring community.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast , a 7-year-old boy decided to make paintings to raise money for those impacted by the war, a P.E.I. firefighter collects equipment for firefighters in Ukraine and we’ll learn about the Iranian holiday of Nowruz, celebrating the coming of Spring.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, helping Island students learn about slavery, black Islanders, and the bog, the journey of a Ukrainian family reuniting on PEI and kids and educators talk about the Ukraine.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, sounds from the "Slow Roll' protest, two nursing homes that recently failed to meet all the standards of care and a mom that makes music videos in isolation.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast a PEI woman turn to medicine wheel teachings to make change in her own life, Rosie Shaw is questioning the province's use of the word 'recoveries' when it comes to case numbers and some relief for of P-E-I's potato farmers..they can once again ship table stock potatoes to Puerto Rico.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, PEI piano player Postie Connolly is sharing his talents in a new series of videos, Emma Roche and her family's long standing lawsuit against the QEH settles and a glimmer of hope some Island potato farmers.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a new PEI company has received a provincial grant of 25-thousand dollars , a report shows PEI isn't faring as well when it comes to immigrant retention and phys ed teachers talk about keeping their students engaged and active
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, reflections on what Koady Chaisson meant to the music community, Puerto Ricans are asking for the return on PEI potatoes and racism resolve in PEI hockey.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a surprise and sudden resignation of UPEI president Alaa Abd-El-Aziz , a coroner's inquest into the deaths of a Charlottetown woman and her daughter and sending PEI spuds to the capital, hoping to get some attention
This week on PEI Pulse podcast, the first ever public Hannukah Menorah lighting ceremony, a chat with families about the ripple effect of the current U-S ban on Island potatoes and a Charlottetown woman is hoping to get a new piece of 'life-changing' dialysis equipment.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a man who has a portion of his home dedicated veterans, a young Afghan woman struggling to bring 10 family members to PEI, and remembering the veterans of Lennox Island.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a somewhat mysterious character has been leading the way with historic ghost tours, a young farmer loses his hand in an accident and Island woman who donated part of her liver...which helped save a child she doesn't even know.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, orange flying beetles have been swarming on PEI and hundreds show up to honour and pay kindness to a young island golfer.
On this special episode of PEI Pulse, Isabelle Gallant takes us to beautiful Lennox Island first nation on PEI to meet The Quill Sisters - two Mi’kmaq artists and podcasters who are finding meaning and building identity through the art of quilling.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast we speak with members of the restaurant industry as they prep for the vax pass roll out....and a double-vaccinated and asymptomatic man was surprised when he tested positive after a rapid test at the PEI border.
While P.E.I. didn’t have any Indian Residential Schools, former students of Indian Day Schools experienced the same kind of horrors faced by Indigenous communities elsewhere in Canada. Students who say that the federal campaign of assimilation, including the eradication of Indigenous languages and culture, is very much a part of P.E.I.’s history.
P.E.I. had two of these Day Schools in Rocky Point between 1915 and 1922 but most children were forced to attend the day school on Lennox Island, taught by Catholic nuns and priests, as well as lay teachers who were not members of religious communities. Jessica Doria-Brown brings us the stories of three former students of the school.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast academic-turned-artist Julie Bull, has a new mixed media exhibit... exploring (de)colonisation, queerness and identity. We'll hear about three men with Parkinson's Disease who have been riding the trails together and a couple decided to build a shipping container house on PEI.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast we check in with an Afghanistan veteran now that the country under Taliban rule. Some reaction to P-E-I's back to school plan and PEI's first Mi'kmaw lawyer called to the bar
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a Charlottetown Man receives a call that changed his life, the Boyle family struggling to find housing and a parent who wants mandatory vaccines in the schools.
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, Amy Burk in Japan as a key member of Canada's goalball team, mental health nurse says he'd love to work on PEI, but officials say he doesn't qualify.