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Wednesday June 19, 2013
Rated: 14 Accompaniment (Coarse Language)
Runs: 85 minutes
Director: James Genn
Country: Canada
Released: 2013
Starring: Noah Reid, Melanie Leishman, Meghan Heffern
A surprisingly charming movie. Stock is twenty years old, a temporary tour guide and full time resident of the Golden Seasons Retirement Home, along with his grandfather. At first it is unclear why Stock is living there, but it is very clear that he enjoys it and has no intention of leaving. But then one day Patti arrives to teach dance to the seniors and change Stocks life. Its not long before we find out these characters have a few dark skeletons in their closets. The question is, will Stock ever be able to give up his Little Rascal scooter, clean out his closet, and learn to be a young man with a life ahead of him?... Its a sweet film with more substance than you would expect. - Popcorn and Vodka. Well made, heart warming, and damn fine funny film. - Phils Film Adventures. Another successful comedy from the Canadians in this years Santa Barbara International Film Festival... a feel good movie that will have anybody laughing. - SBBC Film reviews.
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Charlottetown council has been presented with three main options for the future of the Simmons Sports complex.
Mitchell Power, Andy Handrahan, Scott Power, Matt Bradley and Ryan Curran were presented with their prizes by Brenda Davey after the team won the Second Annual Doug Davey Memorial Golf Tournament Tuesday. The event was a fundraiser for St Cuthbert Parish. The tournament was such a great success last year Mr Davey’s family decided to make it an annual event. Mrs Davey said she would like to thank Peakes Tee, where the touranment was played, for their generosity in hosting the event and all the businesses that donated prizes for the players, as well as those who took part.
The body of a decomposing whale has been discovered on the shore in western P.E.I.
Here's a few of my favourite pins from the last week. I think the sheep graphic is my fave! So aaaadorable! ;)
Five patients at Charlottetown's Hillsborough Hospital graduated from its new literacy program this week.
The town of Stratford, P.E.I. is building a statue and fountain on its waterfront to recognize the diversity of its heritage, and to honour in particular Mi'kmaq runner Michael Thomas.
Faith MacLeod, Georgina MacTavish and Janie Davidson were hard at work Friday at Hillcrest United Church Community Gardens in Montague.
The church opened the gardens for the first time this season after their Sunday School’s Garden for Village Feast did well last year.
The program raised funds to help people around the world. A few plots are still open for public use at no charge. Anyone interested can call the church office at 838-2698. The church asks that the plots be well tended.
The fate of one of the oldest agriculture festivals on PEI, the Provincial Dundas Plowing Match & Agricultural Fair, is up in the air with the introduction of new government regulations.
The fair executive received a registered letter from the Department of Tourism June 11 citing the new regulations. The amended rules apply to festivals that provide overnight camping space which must be upgraded to be comparable to fully functional campgrounds.
The fair’s president Sandra Hodder-Acorn said volunteers are struggling to find a way to comply.
“I’m not sure how we’re going to manage it,” she said. “We don’t make any real profit from the festival. It’s $25 to stay on site and we get about 150 people who stay. It’s $7 for regular admission and children 12 and under are free. We probably get about 5,000 people per year and that’s including the ones that don’t have to pay admission.”
Strawberry crops in eastern PEI are the hardest hit by a new strain of virus that has destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops in Nova Scotia.
Last week, results from tests administered earlier in the season confirmed PEI has been infected by the virus and now growers must decide what measures to take to protect their crops.
Arny Nabuurs, president of the PEI Strawberry Growers Association, said it will be up to each grower to decide if they’re going to plough any infected plants under or take protective measures.
“It’s an individual decision,” Mr Nabuurs said. “I’m sure each grower has a different plan, but so far I haven’t heard of anyone with plans to plough their fields under.”
A player in the Rotary Gold Mine Lottery forgot to play their toonie this week. That means next week’s prize is expected to be an unprecedented $17,500.
Participants are reminded to play their toonie Monday before noon at participating businesses.
The province expects to make a decision in a couple of weeks on an application from Myers Industries to expand its recycling facility on Allies Mill Road.
The public had until Monday, June 17 to submit concerns to government. The province has made no decision on calling a public meeting to hear those concerns.
“The community concerns are a big part of it (approval),” the Department of Environment’s communications officer Ron Ryder said. “We have received a lot of concerns from the community particularly landowners in the immediate area.”
“There’s been a mix of support and opposition to this project,” Mr Ryder said.
Myers Industries owner, Garth Myers, has been delivering copies of his proposal door to door from Pooles Corner to Allies Mill Road.
Opposition Tourism Critic James Aylward said Buffaloland Provincial Park should never have been sold.
The province handed the deed for the 120 acre property over to the International Moonlight Foundation for $1. The foundation is a PEI based nonprofit organization, which means it owns the property.
Stipulations cited by the province in the agreement state the park will stay open to the public, the buffalo population will stay the same, and the province has the right to take back the park if it deems it necessary or the foundation no longer wants it.
That’s not good enough for Mr Aylward.
“I really think the province is divesting themselves of a very important part of the community, particularly in this area,” Mr Aylward said.
Mr Aylward said the province has put $8.7 million into the PEI 2014 Fund, earmarked for the 150th Anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference but isn’t considering the past.
A Murray River councillor who hoped to save the village’s former train station from demolition has gained not only the support of the province but of some individuals also interested in restoring the historic property.
Garnet Buell said he wasn’t able to reveal the names of the people interested in helping restore the structure that’s more than a century old. However, he did say they are private sector individuals and are offering their services on a volunteer basis.
Mr Buell said those individuals have experience in the restoration process.
“They were involved with other similar heritage projects,” Mr Buell said. “So our next step will be to get together to see what steps to take next.”
Mr Buell said the entire village council was in favour of saving the station, with hopes of turning it into something that will benefit the village - like a tourist attraction or coffee shop.
Kids West held their fourth annual Bike Rodeo at the Tignish Credit Union, Alberton branch, Saturday, June 15, at which children ages 12 and under learned proper bike safety, helmet safety and turn signaling. Kids West partnered with the Town of Alberton, the RCMP, the Western Region Sport and Recreation Council, and Dalton’s Bike Shop to create the day of fun and education. 28 children were in attendance with their parents, which is twice the number from last year. RCMP Constable Renee Michiels is shown on the left, displaying how to perform a proper right turn hand signal. Summer Gordon mistook the gesture for a high five. Shown in line behind her, from closest: are Brooke-lynn Dunbar and Addison Buote. Zack Metcalfe photo
When RCMP Constable Earl Woods recently talked about drugs to Montague Intermediate parents, one drug in particular was involved in 80 per cent of calls to police.
It is alcohol.
“It’s still the most widely abused drug,” Constable Woods said.
Because it is legal and so common, it’s easy to forget the effects of alcohol long past a hangover.
We see the short-term effects of drinking all of the time: drowsiness, dizziness, slurred speech, loss of coordination, inability to think and judge clearly, the inability to estimate distances and decreased reaction times.
But we forget alcohol is a drug with long-term consequences.
Long-term heavy drinking can cause chronic health problems including liver damage, heart disease, stomach ulcers, blood vessel disorders, impotency in men, menstrual irregularities in women and some types of cancer.
There were laughs all around as Stewart Dewar’s name was drawn as the winner of 10 pounds of lobsters in the Montague Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion Father’s Day draw.
The big winner of the day was James Quinn of Cardigan who will celebrate the special day with 20 pounds of lobster.
From left are Mr Dewar, with the Montague Legion, Eastern Graphic sales consultant Sharon Riley and Legion President Debi Smith.
All proceeds from the draw will go to the Children’s Wish Foundation.
When 60-year old Marie McGaugh was first offered a senior’s discount at the checkout after shopping one day, she was a bit taken aback, but gladly accepted the cheaper price tag.
“I’ve just never thought of myself as a senior, I guess,” Ms McGaugh said with a laugh.
After living in Massachusetts for almost 55 years, Ms McGaugh relocated to PEI last year. She moved into her grandparent’s old house in Bear River, where her mother, Ethel, was born. Her grandparents, Roach and Marjorie McGaugh, used to run the Bear River Post Office out of the home, from 1941 to 1962. The home sat vacant for 20 years until Ms McGaugh moved here and renovated it for her own.
As a child, Ms McGaugh travelled to PEI with her parents in the summer. Even now she remembers the day she decided she would someday make PEI her home.
“I believe indirectly fishermen are to blame ...” Unsolicited anonymous fisherman’s letter.
Grey seals and inshore fishermen are not good buddies.
When fishermen talk about grey seals, the conversation is usually illustrated with the strongest of expletives. They are too used to the seals as a terrible nuisance, tangling and destroying their nets in feeding frenzies for herring and mackerel.
Despising seals as overgrown sea-going rats is simply part of the culture of the coastal society along the Atlantic shore.
Killing them is not considered to be beyond any moral or ethical pale. In fact, some fishing boats take along a rifle to the fishing grounds for the express purpose of despatching grey seals should they be caught robbing nets - or just be seen within rifle range.
Eddy Quinn is just one of the performers providing entertainment at the Canadian Foodgrains Bank Field Day to be held in Lorne Valley this Saturday, June 22 from noon to 4pm.
The day will be filled with fun and farming, as horses and old tractors cultivate 10 acres of land that will be used to grow barley. In the fall, the crop will be harvested and sold to raise money for the Foodgrains Bank’s efforts to fight global hunger. Last year the crop yielded $1,100 in profits.
Other performers include Peter Chaisson, Allan MacDonald, and Emma Gallant. There will also be a barbecue and bake sale.
Admission is free but goodwill offerings will be accepted.
The fact that liquor is involved is no excuse when a crime is committed. Peer pressure doesn’t justify breaking the law either. Nor does reacting to the unspoken wishes of others.
But those were all apparent factors in three young people maiming and killing seals and leaving them to suffer on the beach in Cape Bear last January.
The crime committed by the three teens has been dealt with in the courts but what about public court ie: the young men’s communities and possibly the entire province?
The teens have expressed remorse. Whether that was the result of guilty consciences, or the fact they got caught is something they have to live with, not the public.
So, now what?
Montague Rotary members Laird King and Marcel Moyaert congratulate Rupert Miles of Souris West, centre, on being the winner of the Rotary Gold Mine Draw for week # 66. Mr Miles took home a cheque for $5,600.50 after his number 6789 was pulled from the Gold Mine drum Monday, June 3. Mr Miles, who has been playing his toonie for a few months at the Souris Petro-Canada, said the money will take care of a few bills among other things. The weekly toonie draw, sponsored by The Eastern Graphic and operated by the Montague Rotary Club, has awarded more than $166,600 to players and has donated more than $166,800 to more than a dozen charities in eastern PEI. Sharon Riley photo
The following is an email I received from Karen Mayne-Mullins:
“I’m sending this note on behalf of my mom, Evelyn Mayne of beautiful Emerald. Well, Mom has lots of hummingbirds. I was at her house earlier today and there were only four, not bad for a miserable day. There are times when she can’t count them all. Her feeder holds three cups of food and she has to change it every second day. On some occasions it has to be refilled daily.”
Thank you for writing, Karen. Hummingbirds are a bit like rainbows, aren’t they? We never get tired of them.
Another hummingbird feeder
I had a phone call yesterday evening from Phyllis Nolan of Newport. She put out a hummingbird feeder for the first time the previous evening and to her delight there were three hummingbirds there the next day. She was very fortunate as often it takes a while to attract birds, big or small, to a feeder in a new location.
Last article we discussed common training mistakes that can jeopardize your training progress. Training is all good and if you are going to participate then do it in a way that yields the most results. The same holds true for nutrition. Proper nutrition is half the equation when it comes to maximum results. Here are some of the most common nutrition mistakes.
Obviously the first one is eating the wrong foods. Too much sugar, saturated fat, refined carbohydrates and overall junk food adds up to unwanted calories, nutrient deficiencies and can stress your whole system. Eat healthy foods, simple as that. The challenge is to take the time to educate yourself on what those foods are.
Eating too much. Even healthy foods can make you fat if you eat too much. At the end of the day you have to burn off all the calories you ingested. Exercise will really help here, along with not overeating.
“I believe indirectly fishermen are to blame ...” Unsolicited anonymous fisherman’s letter.
Grey seals and inshore fishermen are not good buddies.
When fishermen talk about grey seals, the conversation is usually illustrated with the strongest of expletives. They are too used to the seals as a terrible nuisance, tangling and destroying their nets in feeding frenzies for herring and mackerel.
Despising seals as overgrown sea-going rats is simply part of the culture of the coastal society along the Atlantic shore.
Killing them is not considered to be beyond any moral or ethical pale. In fact, some fishing boats take along a rifle to the fishing grounds for the express purpose of despatching grey seals should they be caught robbing nets - or just be seen within rifle range.
This weekend I went for a drive. I know, right? It’s a strange concept to me as well, driving with no clear destination in mind. I had no reason to get in the car and take off down the highway, except that I wanted to explore. My work allows me to visit some interesting places and do some interesting things, but there are gaps. For example, only once or twice since I’ve arrived on this Island have I driven on Highway 14, along the Island’s west coast. It’s arguably one of the most scenic trips in West Prince, and I’d never taken the opportunity to enjoy it.
The O’Leary Eagles won the Men’s Fast Pitch Maritime League Championships, defeating East Hants 7-1 in the final game, held Sunday, June 16, at the Ellis Field in O’Leary. Zack Metcalfe photo
Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development Minister Ron MacKinley was predictable. Big. Brash. Unapologetic. And above all spewing miserable partisanship for what passes in this province as debate and government accountability.
It was, sadly, a typical day at a PEI legislative committee meeting. The government’s partisan tactics spurred on by a hyper-ventilating opposition willing to ignore reality in its attempt to score a 30 second clip on Compass.
The issue was the state of the PEI lobster industry and what the opposition perceives as MacKinley’s lack of action. The discussion was supposed to be an update on government’s 2010 Rural Action Plan.
It’s hard to believe yet another year has flown by. West Prince will soon be transformed into the hopping “place to be” while a variety of summer festivals take centre stage.
Nostalgic banners are placed throughout the hosting communities to welcome everyone who enters.
Many festival goers are both surprised and amazed the caliber of events being held in West Prince. Whether it’s a festival held in Tignish or Tyne Valley, the results are the same - happy people.
Between beauty pageants and lobster races there is something for everyone. People from outside the West Prince borders get a chance to see what these rural communities have to offer.
On several occasions, people can be heard saying, “Wow, we had no idea this even existed here. We are definitely coming next year.”
“The other day two young business men of Summerside drove to Cape Traverse, taking with them the horse of another man. When they arrived home they had a horse that belonged to a Cape Traverse man. And thereby ‘bangs’ a tale of the good old days of the horse and buggy.” “Summerside Journal,” 13 August 1913.
“It was about midnight when the party decided that it was time to start for Summerside. One of them entered the stable in which they had put their horse and throwing on the harness soon had everything ready for the journey home. They let the horse have a free rein, presuming that he knew the road home as well as they did themselves. But the animal was more familiar with the roads in other directions. Several times he lost his bearings, once or twice he stopped at houses along the road, and once he went several miles on a road which led the visitors way off their course.”
Tuesday June 18, 2013
Health PEI says a new electronic record-keeping system at Prince County Hospital means medications and other tests will reduce mistakes and improve patient safety.
Pesky but cute raccoons raid bird feeders in broad daylight. S/he broke the lath barrier and a few days before wrecked a filled planter, rooting through for scattered seeds. Happens every year.
Something odd happened when Shu Zhang was giving a presentation to her classmates at the Columbia Business School in New York City. Zhang, a Chinese native, spoke fluent English, yet in the middle of her talk, she glanced over at her Chinese professor and suddenly blurted out a word in Mandarin. “I meant to say a transition word like ‘however,’ but used the Chinese version instead,” she says. “It really shocked me.”
Shortly afterward, Zhang teamed up with Columbia social psychologist Michael Morris and colleagues to figure out what had happened. In a new study, they show that reminders of one’s homeland can hinder the ability to speak a new language. The findings could help explain why cultural immersion is the most effective way to learn a foreign tongue and why immigrants who settle within an ethnic enclave acculturate more slowly than those who surround themselves with friends from their new country.
Previous studies have shown that cultural icons such as landmarks and celebrities act like “magnets of meaning,” instantly activating a web of cultural associations in the mind and influencing our judgments and behavior, Morris says. In an earlier study, for example, he asked Chinese Americans to explain what was happening in a photograph of several fish, in which one fish swam slightly ahead of the others. Subjects first shown Chinese symbols, such as the Great Wall or a dragon, interpreted the fish as being chased. But individuals primed with American images of Marilyn Monroe or Superman, in contrast, tended to interpret the outlying fish as leading the others. This internally driven motivation is more typical of individualistic American values, some social psychologists say, whereas the more externally driven explanation of being pursued is more typical of Chinese culture.
To determine whether these cultural icons can also interfere with speaking a second language, Zhang, Morris, and their colleagues recruited male and female Chinese students who had lived in the United States for a less than a year and had them sit opposite a computer monitor that displayed the face of either a Chinese or Caucasian male called “Michael Yee.” As microphones recorded their speech, the volunteers conversed with Yee, who spoke to them in English with an American accent about campus life.
Next, the team compared the fluency of the volunteers’ speech when they were talking to a Chinese versus a Caucasian face. Although participants reported a more positive experience chatting with the Chinese version of “Michael Yee,” they were significantly less fluent, producing 11% fewer words per minute on average, the authors report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “It’s ironic” that the more comfortable volunteers were with their conversational partner, the less fluent they became, Zhang says. “That’s something we did not expect.”
The Canadian Automobile Association has released its list of Ontario’s worst roads and Toronto roads occupy four of the roads on the list.
The list is not compiled scientifically; voters cast their ballots in an online poll.
The worst roads of 2013 are:
Dufferin Street – Toronto.
Burlington Street – Hamilton.
Finch Avenue West – Toronto.
Kraft Creek Road – Timmins.
Bayview Avenue – Toronto.
Lawrence Avenue East – Toronto.
Wharncliffe Road South – London.
Bouvier Road – Clarence-Rockland.
Carling Avenue – Ottawa.
Stanley Avenue – Niagara Falls.
Bill, a taxi driver, said Dufferin — which tops the list for the second year in a row — remains in bad shape.
“The Dufferin and Dupont intersection is very bad. It's like, broken street, broken surface, some big holes, lots of construction," he said.
The release of the worst-roads list is part of a CAA campaign to have a greater share of gas tax revenue devoted to road repairs.
Video: http://www.journalpioneer.com/Video/25692/A-whale-er-shark-of-a-tale
Just as rich nations have passed the responsibility for carbon dioxide emissions to the developing nations, so the rich provinces of China have exported the problem to the poorest regions, according to new research.
The world's biggest single emitter of the greenhouse gas – 10 billion tons in 2011 – has undertaken to reduce the "carbon intensity" of its economy. But, according to Klaus Hubacek of the University of Maryland and colleagues, the richest and most sophisticated regions of China – those with the most stringent and specific pollution abatement targets – are buying manufactured goods from places like Inner Mongolia, a poorer region where targets are less constraining.
"This is regrettable, because the cheapest and easiest reductions – the low-hanging fruit – are in the interior provinces, where modest technological improvements could make a huge difference in emissions," said Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and one of the authors.
"Richer areas have much tougher targets, so it's easier for them just to buy goods made elsewhere," Davis added. "A nationwide target that tracks emissions embodied in trade would go a long way towards solving the problem. But that's not what's happening."
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In 2009, at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, China vowed to reduce the carbon dependence of its economy by lowering CO2 emissions per unit of gross domestic product from 2010 levels by 17 percent by 2015. This would be achieved by imposing 19 percent reductions in the affluent east coast provinces, and 10 percent in the less developed west, the country said.
The implication is that emissions-reducing policies tend to push factories and production into regions where costs are lower, and pollution standards less stringent.
(Economists?)
‘The capuchin has a small brain, and it’s pretty much focused on food and sex,” said Keith Chen, a Yale economist who along with Laurie Santos, a psychologist, are the two researchers who have had made the study. ”You should really think of a capuchin as a bottomless stomach of want,” Chen says. ”You can feed them marshmallows all day, they’ll throw up and then come back for more.”
It’s exactly this selfish desires that they tried to exploit and experiment with great success after teaching capuchins to buy grapes, apples and Jell-O. The economist wanted to study the incentives that motivated specimens to behave in a way, while the psychologist analyzed the behavior itself.
Chen’s monkey correlations to human economics attempts go from farther back when he was a Harvard graduate, and additionally shows some more interesting facts. He worked there with Marc Hauser, a psychologist, on a project which studied altruism behaviors in monkeys. They chose cotton-top tamarins for this. At first they put two in different cages, each with a lever. When the lever was pulled, the neighboring monkey would receive food. If not altruism, it was still a form of cooperation which was put to the test – the typical tamarin pulled the lever about 40 percent of the time.
The most interesting part comes about at the time when researchers paced the game a bit harder. Now, they instructed a monkey to always pull the lever (mindless altruist), and an other to never pull it (ego-monkey). The two were then inserted in the game with other monkeys. At first, the mindless altruist was pulling the lever every time, never missing a cage for its food, while the other tamarins responded in the same way 50 percent of the time. The other monkeys soon understood, though, that the mindless altruist was just pulling the lever anyway, indifferently of whether it was reciprocated or not – their response dropped to 30 percent of the time. The ego-monkey was exposed to the harshest treatment, as expected – very harshly. “[The other tamarins] would just go nuts,” Chen recalls when she was introduced with all the other. ”They’d throw their feces at the wall, walk into the corner and sit on their hands, kind of sulk.”
When Chen and Santos first started their study, they didn’t have a particular goal in mind. It was just as simple as giving a monkey a dollar and see what would happen, which was exactly the case, instead of the dollar, however, a silver disc with a hole in its center was employed a means of currency for the capuchins. It took several months of repetition for the capuchins to learn that they could exchange such a token for fruit. After they understood this, each monkey was given 12 tokens to decide on how to spend it in her best interest on food valued at different prices. Researchers observed that the monkeys could very well budget. Researchers then changed the market and put Jell-O at a lower price, to see if monkeys would buy less grapes and more Jell-O. They acted exactly like the current laws of economics dictate for humans as well.
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Do they understand the value of money or do the monkeys just follow nice treats? Well, on a particular day, a researcher cut circular slices of cucumber, similar to the discs that were handed out to the capuchin as money, and fed them to the monkeys instead of the usual cube-like shape. One of the monkeys took a slice, chewed a bit on it, and then immediately went to one of the researchers to see if she could buy something tastier with it. Oh, and then again there’s stealing too. Not a single monkey saved any of the tokens, but most of them tried to subtract a few more tokens when they were handed out. The monkeys were given tokens one at a time by inserting them in a separate chamber from that of their living quarters, but on one occasion everything sprung into chaos when a capuchin tried to make a run for it with a tray filled with tokens and ended up back with all the other monkeys. That was a tough time for researchers.
A few weeks ago, I bought a Slushy Magic kit from a local drug store. I’d seen them on TV and wasn’t sure if they would actually work. I loved the idea of an instant slushy, so I was really interested in trying it out.
The way they say it works is, you put the three “magic freezer cubes” in the shaker cup, then add your cold drink, and shake, and you should instantly have a cup full of slush. This is kind of how it works, but not exactly.
After using it for a few times, I’ve discovered that for best results, you need to make sure that the drink you are using is as cold as you can get it without actually freezing it. I generally take what I want to make the slushy out of, and put it in the freezer for a half hour, because our fridge doesn’t get it cold enough. I then put the three freezer cubes in the cup, and fill the cup to the fill line. I then screw the lid on the cup, put my finger over the little hole in the lid, and shake the crap out of it. It takes two or three minutes of vigorous shaking to get your slushy, and i usually clean the cubes off, add a bit more of the drink and shake it again. I never get a full cup of slushy like they show in the commercial and in the picture. It’s usually a third to half the cup.
So, yeah, it does work, but not exactly as shown in the commercial. For those of us who are fluid restricted, it does make ice water really well, if you’re in a pinch and don’t have any actual ice. I also discovered, quite by accident, that the spoon end of the spoon/straw that comes with the kit comes off, which is great if you’re trying to get the last of the liquid out of the cup.
Newfoundland is historically one of Canada’s poorest provinces. But its economy is expected to surpass that of Alberta this year as the fastest growing among Canada’s provinces, fueled by rising oil production and private-sector investment, according to a new report by the Conference Board of Canada.
Newfoundland is expected to grow its economy by 6% this year, with oil production anticipated to jump by 12.5% and private-sector investment continuing “to climb to all-time highs,” the Conference Board report said. And the province is forecast to lead the way again in 2014, generating gross domestic product growth of 3.4%, the report says.
Energy-rich Alberta produced a province-leading economic growth rate last year of 3.9%, but GDP growth there is expected to slow this year — to a still-not-too-shabby 3.1% — as uncertainty looms over approval of the Keystone pipeline and other energy infrastructure projects. New pipeline construction is expected to allow the province’s energy producers to better access U.S. and global markets, helping to lift Western Canadian oil prices more in line with U.S. crude prices.
“If no progress is made within the next 12 months (on new pipeline approvals), resource investments could be severely curtailed and the (Alberta) economy would take a hit,” the Conference Board said.
For Newfoundland, construction of the large-scale Hebron gravity-based structure for development of the offshore Hebron oil field and the massive Muskrat Falls hydroelectric power plant in Labrador are two projects central to that province’s “robust” growth outlook, the report says.
Renovations to the lobby of Summerside's Harbourfront Theatre will be finished this week.
3 geeks with their cameras
:: THE SMALL FANCY ::
A bit more detail (Randy MacDonald)
A Manley Life
A Maritime Girl
A quilt and a cake
Acts of Volition
Aiken House & Gardens
All Shanadian (Shannon Courtney)
AmberMac
An Island Walk
Angels in our midst (Sandy Peardon)
Anne and Gilbert: The Musical
Any Day With Angela...
April and Jane
Aquilium Group Inc.
Autonorth (Mark Stevenson)
Barb McKenna, Rebel Reporter
Barnface - Barns that look like faces
Be Humble
Beater Boys (Kier Kenny)
Best Day of my Life! ...hopefully (Marsha Robertson)
Billy blogs
Blog for the Quit of It!
Bloggins for Democracy (Mark Greenan)
Boyfriendly Cooking (Lana Stewart)
Brackley Drive-in Theatre
Breath of Balance
Brian Affleck's News and Updates
Butter Versus Burpees
buzzing like a fridge
Caitlin Chic
California Girl in PEI
Canada's Greatest Summer Blog (Marsha Robertson)
candacewoodside
Carol Little
Casa Mia Daily Specials
CBC PEI-Your View
CBC | Prince Edward Island News
CDSPEI
CEO Blues
CEO Blues - travel edition
Charlottetown - Weather Alert - Environment Canada
Charlottetown Police News Releases
Charlottetown Teen Zone
City of Charlottetown
Colin Friars-Mckay
Cory Thomas, City Councillor for Ward 8-Wilmot: City of Summerside
Cosmic Carousal (Jon Grady)
Cottage Industry
Cre8ive1 by Cuidado
Create the Cupcake
Cultural Musings from Raspberry Point
Delta Tango Bravo
Derek Peters - Island Party Candidate District 27
derekmacewen.com
Designer Decor
Diary of an Archaeological Intern
Doc Grimes Clinic
Don't Feed the Writer (Dave Moses)
Doug Hall's Innovation Engineering Leadership blog
Dreaming Outloud
Dunn Creek Organic Farm
E.T. Concentrators Car Club (Pex MacKay)
Early Childhood Development Assoc. of PEI
East Coast Style (Amanda Bulman)
EdTechTalk (Dave Cormier)
ellewar
Emily Gray's Jr. Olympics blog
Erica D Wagner
Erin's Pub
Fighting to Be Frugal
Firth's Hot Hollywood Gossip
Focussed on Light (Stephen DesRoches)
Food Matters (Ian Petrie)
freelantz.ca (Rob Lantz)
fried farts and vinegar (Dale McKie)
FurtherMo
Future Web Design Blog
Gail and Greta's Adventures
Gen X at 40
Get Healthy With Me
Gimmemyketchup's CUSTOMER SERVICE Blog
GlobalPOV (David Holtzman)
Goats' Notes
greenspree.ca (Andy Collier)
gwynabelle
Heather Moyse
hobbit / robot
I Do Cake Toppers
If Dating were a Diary (Keely Turner)
In Other Words...
Island Business News
Island Energy
Island Farmhouse
Island Girl's Ink
Island Insider (April Ennis)
Island Musings
Island News from the Millmans
Island Pro Basketball
Island Tweethearts
It's all good. (Lynda)
Jobo Designs
Journal-Pioneer Arts
journeywithjoanie
Just another round.
justpictureit
Karma and Shwarma
KATELYN FRASER PHOTO'S BLOG
Ken Wilson's Blog
Kent of the North (Kent Driscoll)
kuhlschrank.com (Andrea Vail)
Lady Teresa's Blog
lauraJmac
Le blogue de Dominique / Dominique's Blog
Leafs4Life (Shawn MacLean)
Liberty PEI
Life a la jen mac
Life in PEI
listening to the wind
Location Independent Living (Gary Gray)
lorimayne
Maritime Penny Pinchers
Mark Hemphill
Matt Campbell
Meanwhile Studios (Troy Little)
Mental Trackmarks
morriscode (John Morris)
Motorcycle PEI
Mussel Beach
My Island Bistro Kitchen
My Island Farmhouse
My Way
Na Ceardan (Reji Martin in N. SK)
nathan rochford:blog
Nissology (Island Studies) PEI
No blog is an island
Not a Plastic Blog
O'Grady Says . . .
Om Nom Noms
onrpei
Ooka Island
Open eyes, open mind, open heart (Martha-Anne)
Our Amazing Race in Europe, all the while drinking beer.
Our Better Place
P.E.I. Royal Visit
Panache PEI
Panther Post
Parents for Choice and Quality
Peas on the Moon
Pedaling PEI
PEI Beer Guy
PEI Curmudgeon's Blog
PEI Poet Laureate
PEI Political Homepage
PEI Preschool Autism Services
PEI Rink Fries - Who has the best?
PEI Rocket - your Island team
PEI Rocket Blog
PEIBlog.ca - Need peace? Go East!
PEICancer.com
PEICurling.com
PEIInfo.ca
peiphoneography
peistormchaser
Peter Simpson (Ottawa Citizen)
Phoenix Medical Practice Closing
Positive Change Nutrition (Rachelle Wood)
pottery pei - Right Off the Batt » Clay Blog
Prince Edward Island Deaths
Prince Edward Island Deaths
Prince Edward Island in CANADA
princestreetpuppyproject
quantity over quality
Rachel Peters Photography
Rambling Amazon
Random Thoughts in Random Order
redlikeme.ca
Riki's Misadventures At Life
Riot Gear Fashion Show (Melissa Gallant)
ROAR!
Robert S. Coull, M.D. - Family Physician
Royal Star Foods Ltd - Tignish Fisheries Co-op Assn. Ltd.
ruk.ca from peter rukavina
runty mouse
Save Parkdale School
sawig
Sean Casey
Seoul Food
shand.org.uk
Shared Knowledge
shift+drive
Shizamo FEED
silverorange
silverorange stuff
Spector's Fox Sports Blog (Lyle Richardson)
Stephen Pate
Stephen Pate and Friends
Storm Watch
Susan on Design (Susan Snow)
Sweet Escape Esthetics
Sweet Spot Marketing
Sysop.ca
Tachyon City (Nathan Shumate)
The (Brian) Langille Show Video Blog
The Addictite
The Blog of Jillianne Hamilton
The Cairns Blog (John Cairns)
The Dominee Huisvrouw
The Guardian - Arts
The Hallway
The Hockey Professor - Blog
The Island Voice Tribune
The Len Currie Life
The Life and Times of TofuBilly
The Little Red Kitchen
The Monkey Rodeo
The Salt Water Cure
The Sock Project
The Turnip
The Witch's Island
This is life (Pat Garrity)
This is my world (Yuki Damon)
Tim Banks.ca
timothycullen.com
Today on PEI
tomato transplants
Tonight at City Cinema
Trails of Hats'n Hospitalitea
Tris and Trials
Troy Media » Eye on PEI
Truths and Half Truths
Unmodern Mom
UPEI Women's Basketball
Urban Chic Bridal
Vantage BizServices (Nancy Beth Guptill)
Veterans Affairs Canada - Press Releases Feed
Village Pottery » Blog
Vinyl Tech Window Blog
Ward 3 Brighton (Rob Lantz)
We know stuff (trivia)
Weather for Charlottetown from the Weather Network
Whimfield-Modern Pre-Industrial Living
WhY Condos
Wish I Were There 7...
Women's Equality PEI
Wondering Physician
Work. Family. Life (Jane Boyd)
www.bully-me.com
Your Marketing Mavens (Moe Kerr)
