Dennis King shuffles cabinet as he fills vacant education post
CBC
P.E.I. has a new minister of education and early years after a Wednesday morning cabinet shuffle by Premier Dennis King, and other top departments have new bosses too.
King announced on Tuesday evening that he would be making the shuffle. The need for it became apparent when Natalie Jameson announced early Wednesday she would be leaving cabinet to seek the federal nomination for the Conservative Party of Canada in the riding of Charlottetown, now held by Liberal Sean Casey.
The new education and early years minister is Rob Lantz.
This is the first cabinet shuffle since King's Progressive Conservatives were returned to government in April of last year.
Zack Bell, who has represented Charlottetown-Winsloe since 2020, was given his first cabinet position. He is now minister of fisheries, tourism, sport and culture.
The rest of the shuffle was characterized by moving around existing members of cabinet.
Cory Deagle, who had been in fisheries, tourism, sport and culture, moves to economic development, innovation and trade.
That portfolio had been held by Gilles Arsenault, who moves to environment, energy and climate action.
Steven Myers, who had been holding that portfolio, takes over Rob Lantz's previous file in housing, land and communities.
Jenn Redmond will continue as minister of workforce, advanced learning and population, while also picking up status of women responsibilities from Jameson.
"While we have made significant progress we know that there is still much more to do," said King.
"And to continue that progress, we must be willing to adapt, to innovate, and to have fresh perspectives and fresh ideas, and that's what today is all about."
The remainder of the cabinet is unchanged.
King also made some changes in house leadership.
When the holiday season comes calling, one particular potato dumpling becomes an important fixture on many dinner tables: perogies.
It has been 118 years since Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church's congregation first gathered to worship.
A new First Nations immersive language program inspired is looking to help preserve Plains Cree, a dialect of the Cree language.
A new clinic opening early next year on British Columbia's Vancouver Island has a different structure it hopes will help attract and retain family doctors amid an ongoing physician shortage.
After Alberta's population boomed through the first half of 2024, its growth slowed during the third quarter of this year.
The 2025 Folklore Festival is cancelled citing rising costs and safety issues impacting the festival's plans.
Nearly 200 volunteers are slated to sort and pack urgently needed food donations at the Daily Bread Food Bank's centre in Etobicoke on Saturday.
When Eileen Nurse was a kid, her family would decorate the mantle above the fireplace with miniature houses and fake trees every December, creating a little winter scene. So when Nurse, now 61, bought her first Christmas-themed Lego set in 2010, a new tradition was born.
Summerside's council voted earlier this week to repeal the city's decades-old taxi bylaw, deeming it "redundant."
For Whitehorse resident Charlie-Rose Pelletier, insomnia is something she's dealt with on a regular basis for the last two decades — but she says it became worse after she moved to the Yukon from Quebec a few years ago.
It's hard to imagine President Emmanuel Macron of France joking about annexing Belgium.