PEI Canada

"According to Health P.E.I.'s website, 50 per cent of knee replacement patients are treated within 368 days, and 90 per cent within 715 days. Health P.E.I. was unable to provide an estimate of how many people are currently waiting for the surgery."

This is unacceptable.

I voted an hour after the early voting polls opened.

Late Friday afternoon, Prince Edward Island's largest community college announced it would be suspending eight programs and downsizing three others because of a "sharp decrease in the college's international student enrolment."

The University of Prince Edward Island has apologized to a former artist in residence who quit after administrators ordered him to remove a painting that offended some American faculty members.

Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Office has confirmed two cases of measles on the Island. These are the first reported cases since 2013.

The affected individuals are adult residents of PEI who traveled together to an area within Canada where outbreaks are ongoing. Both individuals were unimmunized and have since recovered. Public Health Nursing is working with contacts of these cases in the community to provide immunizations as needed. Contact-tracing is ongoing. No public exposures have been identified at this time.