I read in The Graphic recently that the Buddists expressed their appreciation for the welcome they have received to our Island and I began to ponder what has made our Island and our country so great. In my generation we have moved from being a people that could build homes, raise a family and paddle our own canoe with no government help. Education was in a one-room school with Grades 1-10 and a teacher with a Grade 12 education with as many as 24 students.  ...

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Dear Editor, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and extend my full support to the students of Montague Intermediate petitioning the government to fulfill their promise for an expansion to their band and industrial arts rooms. To Eve MacKinnon and Chloe Jardine I offer my support in your efforts to hold this government accountable for their promise to you and your fellow students. The leadership you have displayed is remarkable and I find it disappointing that is has taken such measures for the premier to recognize the severity of this situation. The current government claims ...

The Year 2011 has come and gone and for me it was a really great year. I turned 90 years old and my New Year’s resolution is to get to 91. The cry for our world is give us more, more for the food banks, more doctors and cheaper drugs. Some holler that we need an abortion clinic on our island. I believe what we need is more morality having been around for 90 years and seeing so many changes. Over the Christmas season our grandchildren were playing a game together. Three were on the Island and they could see the one ...

Strathgartney Park will be preserved from highway development- that’s good news. Indeed, the park should be expanded. But while it’s great that so many of us spoke up successfully against ruining it, the newly-stated intention of the PEI government to build a new section of highway in the Bonshaw-New Haven area is still a flagrant waste of our province’s finances. ...

The Harper government dictatorship continues to show itself in its true colours. Just a few points of late that I gather were not part of Harper’s election platform in the spring, as follows : - Contrary to the job description for the Auditor General of Canada requiring fluency in both official languages, Harper appointed unilingual (English) Michael Ferguson from bilingual New Brunswick to the post. This smacks of partisanship and is disrespectful of bilingualism. Further, if a partisan appointment, it surely jeopardizes the AG Office mandate of ‘an independent and reliable source of objective, fact based information that Parliament needs’. ...

We would like to thank all the people who have donated their refundable beverage containers to help feed hungry children in Haiti. As some may know I have been receiving your containers for about three years now with $7,480.43 raised to date. Ninety cents of each dollar raised reaches the children in Haiti, the other 10 cents is administration fee for Emergency Relief and Development Overseas. It costs about 25 cents to feed a child a meal in Haiti. There is a pickup of containers in the Beach Point to Murray River area the fourth Monday of each month. Refundable ...

My heart was saddened when I read about a priest suspected of 38 sex offences against youth. I would picture him as a young man leaving home to do great things for our world. But he got caught in some snags along the way. Pope Gregory VII decided priests could not be married. In Genesis 2:18, the Lord said, "it is not good that man should be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." Proverbs 31:10, “Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so ...

I am very pleased that the Canadian Red Cross is moving into Attawapiskat, to try and alleviate the tragic housing crisis that the community is facing. All Canadians should be concerned about what is happening to the indigenous people of Attawapiskat. What a breach of Human Rights and Constitutional responsibilities, the Government of Canada and the Provincial Government of Ontario are committing against our brothers and sisters there. For weeks, the community, which declared a state of emergency, has been pleading for help. The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario recently wrote a letter to the prime minister and premier of Ontario ...