• This is PEI

  • By: CBC
  • Podcast

  • Summary

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

    Copyright © CBC 2025
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Episodes
  • P.E.I.'s response to US Tariffs
    Feb 3 2025

    P.E.I. depends on the US market for most of what we grow and fish. Those markets could disappear overnight when the 25 percent import tariffs are imposed on Tuesday. Mitch asks Premier Dennis King how PEI can fire back, and some growers how they’re feeling.

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    22 mins
  • P.E.I. is getting a lot of new housing. Who will be able to afford it?
    Jan 30 2025

    One way to take the pulse of housing in a community is to look at how many new units are under construction — also called housing starts. But when we look at that number, what are we not seeing? Mitch sits down with the mayors of Charlottetown and Summerside to talk about a record number of housing starts in 2024, and what else needs to be done. This is part one of a two-part series about housing on P.E.I.

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    20 mins
  • Are we asking the right questions about lobster fishing?
    Jan 23 2025

    In the closest U.S. state to P.E.I., new research into the lobster industry is going beyond price and stocks. Mitch checks in with three people at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences about why it’s important to ask fishermen about their health and their communities.


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    18 mins

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