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Did you buy a new car or eat a lot of lobster last year? You’re not alone. In 2015 Islanders bought more cars and lobster than ever before. Our population and economy continue to grow and we’re shipping more of our world-class products around the globe than we ever have before...

The Government of Prince Edward Island is seeking federal funding for a new highway project that would redirect the Trans-Canada Highway around the Town of Cornwall, making travel safer and allowing for more business development in the town. “The Cornwall Perimeter Highway would...

At the largest folk festival in Australia that draws crowds of 120,000, a guitar-toting troubadour, Irish Mythen, sang Prince Edward Island’s praises. Two weeks later, an Australian couple Mythen met at her merchandise table e-mailed her photos of three Sydney-to-Charlottetown...

They say necessity is the mother of invention. Seeing someone he loved suffer with chronic nerve pain that wasn’t responding to oral pain medication led Dr. Joseph Gabriele to invent Canada’s best selling topical pain relieving cream. With a PhD in molecular pharmacology...

New engineering grads get the kinks out of potato farming Inside Prince Edward Island’s sleek new engineering school, students are putting their heads together to save the spuds. Members of at University of Prince Edward Island’s School of Sustainable Design Engineering’s first...

Brian and Amber Craswell fed the cows on their South Rustico farm from the comfort of a Paris hotel room. Being one of the most automated dairy farms in North America has its advantages. Overhead video cameras monitor the barn as the high-tech machinery remotely feeds the herd...

Everyone who lives on Prince Edward Island knows the power of word of mouth – whether good or bad. For businesses, word of mouth can make or break you. Every business owner knows technology and social media has magnified the devastation of a bad review gone viral. That’s where...

A trade mission to India last February with Premier Wade MacLauchlan is paying off for Aspin Kemp CEO Jason Aspin. The engineering and manufacturing company, with corporate headquarters in PEI, provides power and control systems to marine and offshore industries. The company's...

Jill and Brian Burridge were working for a Western Canadian company in Alberta when their first child was born and the magnetic pull of the red Island soil got stronger and stronger. Jill (Cheverie) Burridge, a Holland College grad who got an engineering degree from UNB, wanted...

They are two Commonwealth Islands, separated by 3,700 kilometers of water, with one nearly at the Arctic Circle and the other close to the equator. But in an office in downtown Summerside, PEI, staff is busy helping a Barbados company manage and organize their employees’ vacation...