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This is PEI

This is PEI

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

    You’re hurt at work — and your employer gets a workers’ comp bonus?
    Jun 25 2026

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

    Forced into retirement, worried about losing their homes: P.E.I.’s oyster crisis hits hard
    Jun 18 2026

    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.
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    20 mins
  • Give June Bugs a Chance

    Give June Bugs a Chance
    Jun 11 2026

    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.
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    23 mins
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