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Wind systems financial woes

Entegrity Wind Systems truly does have great potential for success, but there certainly appears to be some major holes in their business plan. Entegrity Wind Systems products appears to be reliable and efficient - but getting involved with government to solve the company’s financial problems will end up costing Island taxpayers money. The company needs the necessary business acumen of an entrepreneur to guide this company to success not taxpayer’s bail-out money. This government’s motive here is to save face and score political points. A business to succeed needs hungry investors trying to protect the loss of their seed capital. It makes the ...
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The day the music died

 This August the Charlottetown Driving Park will be renamed Red Shores Racetrack and Casino. Summerside Raceway is to become Red Shores at Summerside. Mark this date down - July 16, 2009. That’s the date history books will record, that harness racing in the Kentucky of Canada began its final downward spiral - a victim of government’s addiction to gambling dollars. The announcement of this latest diminishment of our Island heritage came from the Atlantic Lotto Corporation - not from the PEI government, nor their agency Harness Racing PEI. That alone should tell you who is calling the shots. Over ...
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Publisher needs to stick to facts rather than speculate

 Dear Mr MacNeill: I would like to respond to your recent editorials in which you raised questions about the provincial government’s commitment to the formulation of a rural development strategy. I wish that you had stuck to the facts, rather than engage in speculation and innuendo. ...
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Classroom size cause for concern

I would like to make you, and other parents in West Prince, aware of the large class size 62 students will experience at Alberton Elementary this coming September. As a concerned parent and educator in my child’s education, I would like to inform you of a huge learning concern I have for each and every one of these students as they step into over crowded classrooms this fall at Alberton Elementary. There will be 32 students in one grade five classroom and 30 students in one grade four classroom. This is simply unacceptable to developing the learning needs of ...
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A collision course to disaster

The Agriculture sector in this province is on a collision course to disaster. Without immediate action by both federal and provincial government to step in and alter this course it will be too late to avoid this collision. This will spell the end of agriculture on PEI as we know it and with it, the Island way of life. Given that governments have recognized the need to support the fishing sector, the Federation is calling on government to do the same for Agriculture in the Atlantic region. Increasing input costs of fertilizers, fuels and crop protectants are the highest ...
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Enough is Enough

Sir: I read the letter to the editor from the fella who is ticked with this gas deal ("Reader questions gas price increases," The Observer, April 25, 2009). Most people around town (Sarnia and surrounding areas) have jobs, so they don't say too much, but people like myself who aren't working and can't find a job have a difficult time dealing with the problems of owning a home and trying to keep it running, let alone trying to find a job, and on top of that, trying to pay these ridiculous gas prices. It's hard enough trying to live, but people who ...
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