2022 in review: A look back at the P.E.I. stories that made headlines
As 2022 involves a detailed, we’re looking again on the many tales that Islanders tuned into this 12 months and, to no shock, well being care, housing and Fiona had been among the many most-read information tales of the 12 months.
Listed here are simply a few of the tales that made headlines this 12 months.
1. Fiona
The Atlantic provinces hunkered down forward of Fiona — at one level in its monitor toward Atlantic Canada it was a Category 3 hurricane. Right here is one in all our most-read, early appears to be like forward of Fiona.
Islanders had been urged to stay at home and off the roads because the state of affairs with Fiona made venturing outdoors extraordinarily harmful.
Within the early hours of the storm, thousands were without power and the worst was yet to come.
As daybreak broke on Prince Edward Island after Fiona, the extent of the harm began to turn into clear. The photos here are worth several thousand words.
P.E.I.’s iconic Teacup Rock was no more after post-tropical storm Fiona walloped the Island. The landmark at Thunder Cove Seashore had been one of many Island’s most photographed rock formations.
The Canadian House Company posted satellite photos that dramatically illustrated how post-tropical storm Fiona modified Prince Edward Island’s shoreline.
The dunes within the Brackley Seashore and Cavendish areas of P.E.I. Nationwide Park saw their worst damage in close to a century when Fiona pummelled P.E.I.
2. Well being care
When the Omicron variant unfold like wildfire, CBC P.E.I. outlined what experts and a couple of people with first-hand experience mentioned you may count on to really feel in the event you come down with COVID-19 regardless of being vaccinated, together with recommendations on find out how to deal with your signs at dwelling.
2022 additionally noticed the first COVID-related death on Prince Edward Island. There have been a complete of 82 deaths over the course of the 12 months, tons of of hospitalizations and tens of 1000’s of instances. Click here for the latest government data on COVID-19.
In January, following the primary reported deaths and unfold of the Omicron variant, there have been isolation rule changes; gyms, dining rooms and more closed; public schools delayed opening. COVID-19 had introduced the Island to a halt.
Keep in mind the Vax Move? That was dropped in February of this year.
A health care provider who had been practising drugs in the community of Tignish in western Prince Edward Island for a bit of greater than a 12 months left the province.
Only a month after three Charlottetown medical doctors introduced they had been leaving their practices — leaving 5,000 extra Islanders and not using a household doctor — another one confirmed that he was leaving too.
A Canadian navy veteran mentioned he was fed up with waiting for a primary care provider after having been on Prince Edward Island’s wait checklist for 11 years.
After all, there have been quite a few tales on the continued physician scarcity, ER closures, outpatient companies in excessive demand and way more.
3. Housing
As it has been for years, housing was a high concern for Islanders in 2022 with many tales on an ever-pressing downside: housing availability and affordability.
There have been many tales on the housing disaster on P.E.I. all year long, notably on homelessness throughout the province.
Advocates for these experiencing homelessness estimated 40-50 people had no place to sleep at evening in Charlottetown, as runaway inflation, rising rents and the housing disaster had compelled them onto the streets.
The tent encampment relocated to the occasion grounds on Riverside Drive the place it continued to be an enormous matter for the rest of the 12 months.
Mid-September, Housing Minister Matthew MacKay announced that an emergency shelter product of cellular housing models could be arrange on Park Avenue. Though initially slated to open mid-November, the shelter opened in December with 50 beds.
The in a single day emergency shelter is open from 8 p.m. to eight a.m., prompting requires a 24-hour answer.
Some people experiencing homelessness have chosen not to use the shelter. In late December, police eliminated all fire hazards from the encampment.
Inexpensive housing and homelessness weren’t points distinctive to Charlottetown this 12 months. Throughout the province, Islanders have been struggling to make ends meet amid record high inflation.
On Dec. 1, the P.E.I. Legislature handed An Act to Amend the Rental of Residential Property Act limiting the utmost allowable hire enhance to 0 per cent on all rental models for 2023. Nevertheless, landlords can still apply for rent increases above that.
In December, the federal authorities introduced that Summerside would be getting 60 new rental units in addition to transitional housing for girls and their youngsters fleeing home violence.
4. MV Vacation Island ferry
On July 22 the MV Vacation Island burned and 200 passengers were safely rescued from the ferry.
Ferry service between P.E.I. and Nova Scotia was suspended instantly afterward. There was even a thought that the autos would not be recovered — however all the vehicles ended up being saved.
MV Saaremaa 1 temporarily replaced the MV Holiday Island and made its first run in August between Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia,
The MV Vacation Island was moored for the rest of the season and finally was sent off to be scrapped.
5. Extensively-read tales
A lady in Kensington, P.E.I., fought through flames inside her family’s burning bungalow in March to avoid wasting her youngest son.
A staff on the Atlantic Veterinary School in P.E.I. labored to determine why large numbers of crows in Charlottetown had been being discovered sick or useless within the Victoria Park space. They later believed the cause was corvid orthoreovirus, a considerably newly described virus which causes mass mortality amongst crows congregating in winter roosts.
A P.E.I. pub pulled images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from its social media accounts after getting a barrage of hate-filled feedback and cellphone calls.
Two individuals had been taken to hospital after an assault in a recreation centre parking lot within the Evangeline area of Prince Edward Island. The altercation was condemned as racially motivated and never a mirrored image of the values and attitudes of the world.
The teenage boy who had racist slurs hurled at him throughout a hockey event in Charlottetown final fall mentioned he is glad with the outcomes of a Hockey P.E.I. disciplinary committee course of, however provides that total, “there’s no winning in this.”
Royal Bank of Canada resolved a technical issue which concerned some auto-deposit e-transfers and funds that disappeared from clients’ accounts.
A P.E.I. query on Jeopardy! stumped contestants. With $2,000 up for grabs, the reply was: “A Spud Islander is a resident of this Canadian province, known for its potatoes.” Crickets, as nobody got here up with the query, which was “What’s Prince Edward Island.”
A P.E.I. faculty instructor has made the discovery of a lifetime after stumbling upon a fossil that may very well be 300 million years previous.
A First Individual story was extensively learn round development work on P.E.I. with this headline: “After working in construction all over Canada, I can see why P.E.I. is short of workers.”
And, lastly, in October a deer swam all the best way to P.E.I. only to be struck by transport truck.
