The decision to include safer pathways for cyclists and pedestrians along Riverside Drive and University Ave. in Charlottetown is welcomed with open arms! This represents a real beginning to making PEI a safer place. As a member of the cycling community on PEI, I have been working hard to push the safety agenda, which includes [...]

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In case you missed this release by the PEI Literacy Alliance back in March of 2008: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2008 PEI ranks near bottom in health literacy This is the conclusion of the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA)’s Expert Panel on Health Literacy.  Their report spotlights health literacy in Canada and the picture [...]

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First reading of Bill No. 14. Pesticides Control (restriction of lawn-Care Products) Amendment Act. Moved by the Honourable Minister of Environment, Energy and Forestry. Seconded by The Honourable Member from Stratford-Kinlock. This Act includes the following: – Use of all pesticides containing the active ingredient 2,4-D will be banned from use on commercial and residential [...]

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TERESA WRIGHT The Guardian A backbench MLA is putting together a private member’s bill proposing to create an ombudsman for the P.E.I. government. P.E.I. is currently the only province without such an ombudsman, but Stratford-Kinlock MLA Cynthia Dunsford would like to see that rectified. “(The ombudsman) could take on a lot of different inquiries and [...]

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THIS is good news!! Congratulations and thank you to the PEI Chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society and The PEI Environmental Health Coalition. Without your help this would not have happened. TERESA WRIGHT The Guardian Use of certain dangerous cosmetic pesticides will soon be banned when the province introduces its new Pesticide Control Act during [...]

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Charlottetown Environmental Roundtable Originally uploaded by cynthia dunsford David McGuinty was on PEI recently hosting a roundtable meeting on the environment. Topics covered included: agricultural sustainability; watersheds; wind energy; biomass and other alternative energy sources; the state of nuclear energy in Canada; transportation. iBeginShare.attachButton(‘share-tool-18957546632′, {title: ‘Charlottetown Environmental Roundtable’, link: ‘http://www.cynthiadunsford.com/2009/08/11/charlottetown-environmental-roundtable/’, content: ‘http://www.cynthiadunsford.com/?ibegin_share_action=get_content&id=239′});

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Strawberry Social at Tea Hill Park in Stratford Originally uploaded by cynthia dunsford If you can’t depend on warm, sunny weather for Summer, you can always depend on a strawberry social showing up. Here’s hoping for some good weather for August. iBeginShare.attachButton(‘share-tool-57268306147′, {title: ‘Strawberry Social Season’, link: ‘http://www.cynthiadunsford.com/2009/07/29/strawberry-social-season/’, content: ‘http://www.cynthiadunsford.com/?ibegin_share_action=get_content&id=234′});

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Meme -  a unit of cultural information I have been tagged by Rob Paterson and Hans Connor to participate in “7 Things” where people with websites/weblogs are asked by their ‘so-called’ friends to reveal 7 things about themselves to their readers and then to pass along the same request to 7 more unsuspecting ‘so-called’ friends [...]

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