
… the government said in a throne speech that also promised breaks for seniors in
nursing care … 
The Charlottetown Festival announced its lineup for the 2007 season Thursday and Canada
Rocks is being ousted by The British Invasion … 
What a developer called "a minor blip" has put a full stop on a project to redevelop the
Waterfront Mall in Summerside … 
Liberals are calling the posting of dozens of jobs at the P.E.I. Liquor Commission another
sign of increasing patronage in the provincial government as its mandate nears its end … 
Segolene Royal won the French Socialist Party's leadership nomination on Thursday and will
vie in a 2007 election that could see her become the country's first female president … 
NATO troops shot at a speeding van on Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, killing two
Afghan civilians and injuring a child, NATO officials said Thursday … 
With gas prices up, an independent wholesaler is back delivering gasoline to the rural
stations it had threatened to cut off … 
A group of residents frustrated with a string of thefts in Wedgeport went to a suspect's
house Wednesday night, RCMP say … 
Emergency officials cleared the Aliant building in New Glasgow Thursday after four
telephone operators fainted … 
To beef up security, port workers in Canada will be required to pass background checks,
the federal government announced Thursday … 