This NDP proposal, as reported by the CBC News' Shane Ross, does not appeal to me. Universities and colleges are different kinds of institutions, after all, to say nothing of my loyalties to UPEI.

The NDP in P.E.I. has asked the province to examine the possibility of merging UPEI and Holland College into one one post-secondary institution ( Read more... )

CBC Prince Edward Island shares the news that UPEI's former president, Wade MacLauchlan, is running for the leadership of the PEI Liberal Party and hence the premiership.

Wade MacLauchlan, law professor, author, and former president of the University of Prince Edward Island, announced his bid to lead the P.E.I. Liberal Party Friday ( Read more... )

Over at Facebook I've an album featuring some photos that I took around Charlottetown, capital of Prince Edward Island, in 2002. They were digitized after I took them, but these images are very, very, low-resolution. We're talking about pictures that amount to dozens of kilobytes at most ( Read more... )

My first alma mater, rather.

At the University of Prince Edward Island, a student newspaper became one of the first Canadian papers to reprint the incendiary editorial cartoons when it published them in its Wednesday edition ( Read more... )