Governance
Simone Webster will be the NDP candidate in P.E.I.’s District 9 byelection
Simone Webster has been nominated as the New Democratic Party candidate in the pending byelection for District 9: Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park. Webster was acclaimed for the nomination Friday. The byelection will fill the seat left vacant by former MLA Natalie Jameson, who resigned in February after being nominated as the federal Conservative Party candidate for Charlottetown. She…
Read MoreQuestionable King Government Conduct
Not even 24 hours ago, I released a statement about the recent summit of Eastern Canada premiers to discuss health care reform options, which included privatization. A recent article by Saltwire’s Stu Neatby examines the King Government’s suspicious back-room actions towards further privatization. Based on the report presented to the clerk of the executive council…
Read MoreRural Healthcare Broken by King Government
The closure of the Collaborative Emergency Centre (CEC) at Western Hospital until at least September 15, with no reassurance of its reopening is the latest failure of the King government to provide necessary health services to rural Islanders. In February this year, a West Prince man died while waiting for more than an hour for an ambulance. The King government…
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