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September 28, 2023 #156: Chief Darlene Bernard, eagle feather affirmation and new Mawiomi Centre
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast Lennox Island Chief Darlene Bernard with thoughts on Truth and Reconciliation Day, the Eagle Feather is now one of the options that people can swear an oath on at courts on P.E.I. and the Mawiomi Student Centre at UPEI helps both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students connect to Indigenous cultures.
5 min
September 14, 2023 #155: Fiona book, addiction site specialist and new Missing Person's Act
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a new book on the post-tropical storm Fiona and its impact on the landscape of the province, an addiction specialist reviews proposed injection site and an Island mother uses New Missing Persons Act to track her son.
32 min
August 31, 2023 #154: Tetsuro's one man play, Summerside homeless and revisiting Swiss Air crash site
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast Tetsuro Shigematsu and his acclaimed one-person play called Empire of the Son, we’ll hear from a man living on the streets in Summerside and an Island doctor revisits Peggy's Cove 25 years after crash.
29 min
August 24, 2023 #153: New drum helps, Islanders in wildfires
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a boy on Lennox Island with limited mobility has a custom-made drum thanks to a group of engineering students, Susan Fitksy will tell us more about the 25-hour journey with her family to make it to safety and a labour and delivery nurse from PEI who stayed behind to help evacuate a hospital.
23 min
July 27, 2023 #152: Anorexia research, Radon in PEI schools and Changes to Habitat for Humanity qualifications
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, new research into Islanders with eating disorders, four PEI schools have higher than acceptable levels of radon, and rising housing costs have impacted Habitat for Humanity program
27 min
July 20, 2023 #151: Police complaints, ferry future and injection site boil over
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, how police deal with complaints about police, concerns for the future of the P.E.I. ferry service and a heated and passionate meeting to discuss the future home for a safe injection site.
27 min
July 12, 2023 #150 : Losing windfarm, LGBTQ memory loss and surviving wildfires
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a wind farm in Eastern PEI is losing millions of dollars a year, LGBTQ plus may deal with memory loss differently, and threatened by wildfires in Nova Scotia one week before production starts.
25 min
June 22, 2023 #149: No ferry service, Green Party leader resigns, UPEI report reaction
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, how the trucking industry is being affected by the continuing ferry cancellations , Peter Bevan Baker on his resignation this weekend from the Green Party and reaction to the scathing UPEI report from the faculty association.
36 min
June 15, 2023 #148: UPEI allegations, Steven's lawyer and 1000 times donating blood
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, a new report says UPEI did not deal allegations of harassment , a Summerside family acquires top lawyer to sue Summerside police for 6 million and 90 year old Ewen Stewart became the first Islander to donate blood eleven-hundred and sixty two times.
24 min
June 01, 2023 #147: Evacuated, Fiona and Cruise dad
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, escaping the forest fire in her Hammonds Plains neighborhood, how Fiona changed Islanders, personally and emotionally and dream cruise comes true after 87 years.
27 min

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