Tips for P.E.I. employers to attract and keep staff during current labour crunch | CBC News
Island Recruiting
helps match employers and employees in the marketplace. Owner Blake
Doyle opened the consulting company about 12 years ago “because we
recognized there was going to be some demographic changes to the labour
market in P.E.I.”
New solar farm will provide 62 per cent of Summerside’s electricity
The feds will contribute $26.3 million, the province $21.9 million, and the city will provide the remainder.
“The people of Summerside and PEI are showing remarkable Canadian leadership on clean, renewable energy,” said Catherine McKenna, the federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.
After busy year, Summerside expecting more economic growth in 2020 | CBC News
“Immigration is certainly a big part of the key in sort of moving the economy forward,” McFeely said.
“Immigration from all over the world will result in significant business startups in Summerside. It has in 2019.”
This french-fry plant is fuelled by potato scraps | CBC News
Cash said using the waste to create biogas also means the company isn’t trucking about a dozen loads of potato waste offsite every day — as it used to.
“So the peel, the raw material, the frozen product that’s not fit to go into a bag would all have been trucked offsite to animal feed lots,” he said.
On P.E.I., a ‘different breed’ of conservative government — are they ‘green Tories?’ | CBC News
“The Island is more vulnerable to climate change than any other part of Canada. That’s just a fact. We are a low-lying sandbar in the North Atlantic.”
In Ontario, Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford said he was “proud” to tear up hundreds of green energy contracts after coming to power, at an estimated cost to provincial taxpayers of $230 million.