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Some premiers said a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday in Ottawa to discuss the economy was productive, but no concrete commitments were made."I know everyone tonight is looking for the miracle solution," said New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham, who currently chairs the Council of...

The Canadian economy's record of habitually churning out robust employment growth came to an abrupt end in December, as 18,700 jobs disappeared, Statistics Canada said Friday.The jobs report was much weaker than analysts were expecting. The consensus had been that the country would add about 15,0...

The trial of a woman accused of defrauding two Charlottetown men of more than $53,000 began Thursday with an elaborate description of how the alleged fraud occurred. Marie Claire Mballa told a Charlottetown man she worked for United Nations, the court heard at her fraud trial. (Police photo)  The...

HALIFAX - It seems a fiddling performance by Nova Scotia's premier wasn't enough to entice late-night funnyman David Letterman to bring his talk show to the province.A local campaign to bring Letterman to Nova Scotia received a boost this week when Rodney MacDonald offered a Top 10 list of reason...

Department of Fisheries and Oceans rules and conflict of interest guidelines have led the P.E.I. fisheries minister to sell his fishing gear and lobster licence.Allan Campbell spent almost 20 years fishing lobster off the eastern part of the North Shore, and many fishermen were pleased to see him...

The Charlottetown Transit system will expand into Stratford this year as the town goes on a growth-fuelled spending spree.Stratford, just across the Hillsborough River from Charlottetown, is P.E.I.'s fastest growing community, and while many municipalities are tightening their belts this year due...

A billion-dollar aid package announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday needs to come sooner and should be just the beginning of federal help for struggling industries, says P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz.Heading into Friday's first ministers meeting in Ottawa, Ghiz expressed his disappointm...

The province's environment minister doesn't expect any one will be out of a job when bottling production shuts down at a Pepsi bottling plant in Charlottetown.The Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) announced Wednesday that its glass bottling production facility will convert to a satellite warehouse in th...

The Lebanon ambassador to Canada says political division has split his country almost into two halves."Unfortunately, for different kinds of interest inside our country, it seems that the politics have overcome and overtaken the interests of the population," said Massoud Maalouf, who is joining t...

A Halifax company doing exploratory drilling for natural gas on P.E.I. has recently halted its operations in Cavendish.Corridor Resources Inc. began experiencing what it has termed ‘mechanical difficulties' while using a technology called fraccing to explore the Island's potential for natural gas...