We visited the UPEI Campus in Charlottetown to talk to students and profs about what’s happening. Mitch speaks to international students Lian Camargo and Sushil Khatri, Indigenous Studies minor Grace McQuaid, dean of Indigenous Studies Angelina Weenie and instructor David Varis, and three people involved in the Clinical Simulation and Learning Centre at the new medical school.

After 50 years, Joan Blanchard is hanging up her whisk. She’s made thousands of mile-high lemon meringue pies for the New Glasgow Lobster Suppers. We catch up with Joan and also hear from the co-owner of the lobster suppers about how the pies gained such notoriety.  

P.E.I.’s Living Labs program gets researchers out onto farms to test out management practices and new technologies. As Mitch hears, the program is so successful, it’s become a model for other places.

This time around we meet the Santiago family from Summerside, who have hit the YouTube jackpot on their channel, Diary of 4.

This week Mitch chats with two digital creators learning the pleasure and pressure of being an online influencer.

A group of high school students went to a summer camp at UPEI to create the future of health care using artificial intelligence as the foundation. Mitch speaks to four of them about the ideas and models they came up with.

For this butcher in Clyde River, work keeps him young … at heart. Mervin MacPhee is 92, and part of a fourth-generation abattoir. From custom work at the butcher block to making deliveries, he has no plans to slow down.

There is so much to see on P.E.I. in the summertime, and one of the best ways to do it is to take a walk. Mitch talks to three local guides who offer distinct walking tours that explore Island history.  

The Island’s building boom is easy to see. New projects are everywhere as housing starts hit a new high in the province last year. Thinh Nguyen tells Mitch why even more new homes will have to be built every year to keep housing affordable. 

The founder of P.E.I.’s L.M. Montgomery Institute has been named to the Order of Canada — an honour she says is for the entire team at the institute and the MacNeill family, Montgomery’s descendants.