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Charlottetown restaurant's demands for 14-year-old girl to change clothing prompt lawsuit threat
An Ontario tourist says his daughter was “sexualized’’ when a waitress in a Charlottetown restaurant told her to cover up. Mike White, 36, of Grimsby, Ont. told The Guardian he attended Water Prince Corner Shop last Wednesday ...
UPDATE: Charlottetown woman charged with infanticide worked at family resource centre
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - A woman charged with two counts of infanticide is accused of disposing of her dead children’s bodies in a waste bin. Court documents state Shannon Dawn Rayner, 39, of Charlottetown willfully failed to obtain medical ...
‘Pure terror’ on a P.E.I. beach
“Then within a minute,’’ says Johnston, “it was pure terror.’’ The pair had been splashing in the waves Saturday around 8 p.m., snapping photos with a sports underwater camera. After just a handful of minutes in the water, however, Johnston’s ...
VIDEO: Charlottetown’s Helen Keating seeks zippy thrill for 75th birthday
On Tuesday, Helen Keating celebrated her milestone birthday more than a month late by climbing up wooden steps to a platform about 35 feet above ground before unflinchingly hurtling along a zip line for 600 feet of adrenaline rush. “It was very ...
P.E.I. hockey player sentenced to 30 days for assaulting referee in Pownal
Cole Trevor Crane, who will serve the sentence on an intermittent basis to allow him to work at his summer job, was also placed on probation for 18 months. Chief Provincial Court Judge Nancy Orr ordered Crane to write an apology to the referee, John ...
Smallpox-laced blankets no reason to change Amherst name: Parks Canada
John Joe Sark, a member of the Mi’kmaq Nation traditional government, is strongly urging the name of General Jeffery Amherst be scrubbed from Port-la-Joye-Fort Amherst historic site. Sark recently handed in his Order of P.E.I. in protest of the ...
Air Canada first messes up flight, then the apology, for Charlottetown family
Doyle describes the overall treatment by Air Canada as “pretty negative.’’ First, the airline bumped his boy from a prepaid flight to Costa Rica. Doyle says Air Canada made a debacle of the scheduled flight for the family of four from Charlottetown ...
P.E.I. couple duped by sophisticated computer, telephone fraudsters
A sophisticated scam cost an Island couple tens of thousands of dollars. If not for alert bank employees, the loss could have been considerably higher. The Guardian recently reported that Charlottetown police are warning the public of a scam after a ...
UPDATE: The Chronicle Herald acquires TC Media’s Atlantic Canada newspaper and publishing assets
“It’s definitely going to be driven from the local level,’’ says Mark Lever, president and CEO of SaltWire Network Inc., the company that now owns the Charlottetown Guardian, St. John’s Telegram and Cape Breton Post. The Chronicle Herald announced ...
Truck driver from P.E.I. sentenced in Maine for aggravated driving
He was charged following a collision on Aug. 25 that left Brian Richardson of Veasie, Maine in critical condition. Richardson was released from hospital in late September but is expected to be paralyzed for life. Police say Dosen, driving a ...