Episodes
Whether you’ve been an Islander for six months or sixty years - you'll know there's just something special about this quirky little place. In our new podcast, we're answering your questions on this giant sandbar we call home. It can be about anything - big or small, serious or silly. We'll use our sources, the archives and hit the streets to find the answers.
Published 01/17/24
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, we'll hear about two Lennox Island sisters who were honoured for thier service during the Second World War and why Belfast Mini Mills had to close its storefront to focus on international orders.
Published 11/10/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast we explore the death of the traditional funeral, a survey looking at the rate of gambling in PEI arrived at some troubling conclusions and some of the provincial funds aimed mainly at helping improve wages for workers, left untouched.
Published 10/27/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, an annual concert that highlights personal stories of people who have benefitted from United Way supported programs, a PEI food bank had to turn people away because of a sharp increase in demand and Murray Harbour council hears reaction from outraged indigenous leader.
Published 10/12/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, we'll hear from three new members of the Order of P.E.I., French schools that have to deal with the influx of students and local reaction to Wab Kinew's big win in Manitoba as the first indigenous premier of a Canadian province.
Published 10/06/23
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.
Published 09/29/23
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.
Published 09/15/23
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.
Published 09/01/23
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.
Published 08/25/23
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
Published 07/28/23
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.
Published 07/21/23
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.
Published 07/13/23
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.
Published 06/23/23
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.
Published 06/16/23
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.
Published 06/02/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, for the first time ever, the H-M-C-S Queen Charlotte has a female commanding officer, P.E.I. post Covid-19 hospital closures and Paramedics on P-E-I recently got some new training on how to be anti-racist.
Published 05/19/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast Lennie Gallant is collaborating with the legendary Jimmy Buffett, Dawson Funeral Home victims wrote a letter to the editor recently asking how pre-paid funeral costs
weren't better managed and Snowmobilers are hoping this year's lack of snow in most of the province is just a blip.
Published 04/21/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, the PEI Potato Blossom Festival in O'Leary was headed for the history books....until a last minute save, Mi'kmaq Language class to help in sharing culture and more about how a trio of mother and daughters on P.E.I. are gearing for the Boston Marathon.
Published 04/14/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast bringing you one-on-one interviews with each of the four major party leaders during this 2023 Provincial Election Campaign.
Published 03/24/23
This week on P.E.I. Pulse Podcast, three of the nearly 5,000 volunteers who have helped host the Canada Games here on P.E.I., we'll meet a few Para athletes who are competing this week and hear why it's important for the Games to be inclusive and why Cavendish overturned their vote earlier this week and approved a second musical festival taking place in the community this July.
Published 03/03/23
This week on P.E.I. Pulse Podcast, stories about Islanders working to support one another and build positive change, the family of a P.E.I. man found dead says police, health system failed him and Charlottetown council's frequent closed door meetings.
Published 02/17/23
This week on P.E.I. Pulse Podcast , Little Women is a father's gift to his daughter, exploring the the reasons P.E.I. is losing farmland at a rate we haven't seen since the 1970s and 15-year-old Brian Zhang is one of the athletes chosen to represent P.E.I. at the Canada Games in men's hockey.
Published 02/14/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, the College of Piping has been named in his honor of founder Scott MacAulay, Senator Stan Kutcher wants spanking of children banned in Canada and a new project will soon be incorporating Black women's history into some grade 7 social studies classes .
Published 02/03/23
This week on PEI Pulse Podcast, designing a new Canada Games medal, facing the nearsightedness epidemic and how quickly hotels are booking up in advance of the Canada Games.
Published 01/20/23