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Your home, in less than 20 minutes a week. Host Mitch Cormier brings you the stories The Island is buzzing about. Every Thursday.

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    You’re hurt at work — and your employer gets a workers’ comp bonus?

    Over the past decade, Island employers have received $185 million back from the Workers Compensation Board through its surplus distribution program. Some businesses qualified for payments even after workplace injuries or deaths. Jackie Sharkey tells Mitch what she found in trying to find out why.

    24 min

  2. 18 juni

    Forced into retirement, worried about losing their homes: P.E.I.’s oyster crisis hits hard

    Mitch heads to Tyne Valley for a closer look at the crisis facing P.E.I.’s oyster industry. He speaks with harvesters about how two diseases killing oysters are forcing them to look for help, and how the provincial and federal governments are trying to keep the industry alive.

    20 min

  3. 11 juni

    Give June Bugs a Chance

    Warm weather brings these big, clumsy beetles each spring. We chat with Maritime insect enthusiasts who share cool facts about the notoriously noisy, light-loving June bugs that many Islanders love to hate this time of year.

    23 min

  4. 4 juni

    Meet Alex Campbell, the P.E.I. premier who modernized the province

    Canada has just honoured Alex B. Campbell by renaming the Charlottetown Airport after him. Mitch meets the province’s longest-serving — and perhaps most transformative — premier.

    29 min

  5. 28 maj

    What happens when a cruise ship plugs into P.E.I.’s power grid?

    Port Charlottetown and Maritime Electric are developing a system to supply shore power to cruise ships while they’re docked in the capital. Mitch explores how a utility that warned the grid could fail during the winter plans to power a floating hotel during the summer tourism season.

    21 min

  6. 21 maj

    She lost two sons, and found support through community

    In less than two years, the Rayner family from Alberton, P.E.I., lost two sons, leaving their youngest child growing up without brothers. Tina Rayner speaks with Mitch about grief, community support and how writing has helped her cope with unimaginable loss.

    19 min

  7. 14 maj

    P.E.I. doctors are sick of writing your sick notes

    Summerside emergency room physician Dr. Kay Dingwell says she wants to spend her time treating patients — not writing sick notes to satisfy employers. Mitch explores why P.E.I. is behind the times on sick-note policies and asks a lawyer whether workers can refuse to provide one.

    21 min

  8. 7 maj

    Canada's physician recruiters have changed their pitch, here's how

    Long before you see a family doctor, they've been seen by one of Canada's 200 physician recruiters. Mitch meets two to hear about how they work, and how their pitch is changing.

    19 min
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