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Lion Electric's customers worried about what comes next amid company's struggles

Lion Electric's customers worried about what comes next amid company's struggles

MONTREAL — Andrew Brooks ordered three school buses from Lion Electric Co. on Nov. 20, just before American Thanksgiving.
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P.E.I.'s King leads bus delegation to northeastern U.S. to highlight Canadian exports

P.E.I.'s King leads bus delegation to northeastern U.S. to highlight Canadian exports

FREDERICTON — Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King is hoping cooler heads prevail and trade continues to flow uninterrupted across the United States-Canada border after president-elect Donald Trump takes office next week.
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Sound and video of meteorite crashing to Earth captured on video in P.E.I.

Sound and video of meteorite crashing to Earth captured on video in P.E.I.

CHARLOTTETOWN — About two minutes after a P.E.I. man left his home to go for a walk with his wife and their dogs, a space rock hurtling toward Earth crashed onto the path where he had been standing.
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P.E.I. oyster farmers fear without government help, MSX parasite will kill industry

P.E.I. oyster farmers fear without government help, MSX parasite will kill industry

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island's oyster industry is calling for more research and government action as a parasite spreads in the province's waters, threatening the world-renowned export.
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Prince Edward Island takes steps to ease strain on overstretched hospitals

Prince Edward Island takes steps to ease strain on overstretched hospitals

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island is warning that its health-care system is facing "significant" overcapacity, stretching limited resources.
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Ear damage: P.E.I. top doctor blows the whistle on air horns at hockey games

Ear damage: P.E.I. top doctor blows the whistle on air horns at hockey games

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island's chief public health officer is sounding the alarm on ear-splitting air horns at hockey arenas. Dr.
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Pedal away: Charlottetown proposes 'bike bus' to get students to bicycle to school

Pedal away: Charlottetown proposes 'bike bus' to get students to bicycle to school

CHARLOTTETOWN — Anna Keenan likes to keep up with public transit trends. The City of Charlottetown's sustainable transportation officer said she learned on Instagram of a new way students are travelling to school: a bike bus.
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Nova Scotia wildlife centre waiting on good weather to release wandering golden eagle

Nova Scotia wildlife centre waiting on good weather to release wandering golden eagle

FREDERICTON — Maybe it was sick. Maybe it was just exhausted. Whatever the reason, a golden eagle flapped down in the middle of a road in central Prince Edward Island one late afternoon in November.
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Lounsbury and Mercier score two goals apiece as Wildcats defeat Islanders

CHARLOTTETOWN — Preston Lounsbury and Alex Mercier scored two goals apiece as the Moncton Wildcats topped the Charlottetown Islanders 6-3 in Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League action on Sunday.
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Calling all bloodhounds: These P.E.I. blood donors have four legs and a tail

Calling all bloodhounds: These P.E.I. blood donors have four legs and a tail

Mahone, a two-year-old, black, fluffy Newfoundland dog from Prince Edward Island, doesn't know that he and other canine blood donors have saved the lives of fellow pooches that have needed surgery, or have been poisoned.
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