Cynthia Dunsford, MLA

Stratford-Kinlock, PEI

Cycling on PEI just got better!

Published in August 23rd, 2010

Posted by Cyn in Stratford, Transportation, community, cycling, environment, health, photos, roads, safety, tourism

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Cyclists across PEI have been trying to educate and activate governments, both municipally and provincially for decades. It is great to see the City of Charlottetown listening, learning and implementing plans for safer cycling. Over here in Stratford, the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal has included ‘share the road’ signage and wider shoulders for [...]

Safe Lawns for PEI

Published in April 12th, 2010

Posted by Cyn in children, community, environment, family, health, legislation, nature, photos

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PEI has a decent start to a Province-wide lawn pesticide ban. There is more work to do with the regulations, but for now let’s start learning about the safe ways to take care of our lawns. Safe Lawns dot org is a great resource, and in fact, Paul Tukey, founder of Safe Lawns dot org, [...]

PEI’s First Indoor Soccer Complex Kicks Off Official Opening

Published in June 22nd, 2009

Posted by Cyn in Stratford, children, community, health, sports

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Left to right: Tom Hayward; Carolyn Bertram, Minister of Communities, Cultural Affairs and Labour; Kevin Jenkins, Mayor of Stratford; Gerald MacDonald, PEI Soccer Assoc.; Cynthia Dunsford, MLA Stratford-Kinlock; Wayne Hooper, ACOA; Alan McIsaac, MLA Vernon River-Stratford. Island soccer players now can hone their skills in any weather conditions as the province’s first indoor soccer facility [...]

A natural approach to keeping the perfect lawn

Published in May 27th, 2009

Posted by in environment, health, legislation

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May 26, 2009 The Londoner Local News A natural approach to keeping the perfect lawn With Ontario’s new cosmetic pesticide ban now in effect business and homeowners alike are looking for alternatives when it comes to maintaining their lawns. One option is exchanging old chemical maintained lawns for grass more accepting of natural alternatives, an [...]

Latest news from Cycling PEI

Published in May 15th, 2009

Posted by in children, community, cycling, family, health, safety, women, youth

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Bike Drop Off Saturday Morning This will be done through the Kidsport and Canadian Tire Jump Start programs. Preference is to give bikes to families in need, youth at risk, and low income families. If you are in need of a bike please come in to Sport PEI and take advantage of this great program [...]

DOWning NAFTA?

Published in May 4th, 2009

Posted by in environment, health, legislation, safety

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from Investment Treaty News By Howard Mann, Senior International Legal Advisor to the International Institute for Sustainable Development 2 May 2009 On 31 March 2009 Dow AgroSciences LLC, a subsidiary of the U.S. Dow Chemical Company, initiated its NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration against Canada due to the banning of cosmetic lawn chemicals in the province [...]

Cosmetic Pesticides, an idea whose day has gone.

Published in March 9th, 2009

Posted by Cyn in community, environment, health, legislation, nature, photos

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ISLANDERS CAN REJOICE! PEI will be among the other leaders in Canada. Leaders….not followers. Quebec, Ontario and now PEI, with New Brunswick ready to make the change soon. There are many people on PEI who have been working so hard for a long period of time toward this end. Congratulations to all those groups [...]

A great day to read!

Published in January 25th, 2009

Posted by Cyn in Stratford, children, community, education, family, health, literacy, parenting, photos, youth

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Can’t say enough about the great little library in Stratford. Jane McKinney, the librarian, does a fantastic job keeping things up to date and organized. But better still, is her ability to attract so many people to the library. What a busy spot. Family Literacy Day went off without a hitch. Silvia Beaton was the [...]

What’s been up?

Published in October 22nd, 2008

Posted by Cyn in community, education, health

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It’s been a while since cynthiadunsford dot com has been attended to. It’s been a very busy last month and my energy seems not to have extended itself much past the committee meetings, forums, people meetings etc. to save enough for keeping up the website. Hopefully I can slot enough time each week (at least) [...]

Cosmetic Pesticides on PEI

Published in April 24th, 2008

Posted by Cyn in community, environment, health

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First Quebec, now Ontario… is PEI next for a province-wide ban on the use of cosmetic pesticides? The report by the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Environment on cosmetic pesticides is now available online. Another interesting tidbit of information points to major retailers (including Home Depot and Canadian Tire) voluntarily pulling pesticides off their [...]

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