Jocelyne Lloyd

Charlottetown

Managing Editor at The Guardian (Charlottetown, PE)

Outside opinions editor with @saltwirenetwork and managing editor @peiguardian I’m the woman who sings along to the muzak in the grocery store. she/her

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P.E.I. Easter Seals ambassador tour raises $61,000 to support people with disabilities

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • Article contentThe Tim Hortons 2025 Easter Seals P.E.I. Ambassador School Tour wrapped up April 30, bringing in a total of $61,125 for the Island charity that supports people with disabilities. This amount is $13,000 higher than the 2024 tour. Helen Chapman, Easter Seals P.E.I. executive director, says students, teachers and support staff showcased their kindness and generosity at the 62 schools the tour visited throughout the province.
PCH Foundation launches Vital Signs campaign fundraiser for Summerside hospital

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1 • Article contentSUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — To continue delivering quality care to Islanders, the Prince County Hospital requires new and replacement medical equipment and technology annually. Through the 2025 Vital Signs appeal, the PCH Foundation is asking Island communities to raise $2,672,425 to meet this need. This is one of the largest annual campaign goals in foundation history, with $637,800 dedicated to diagnostic imaging (DI) equipment alone.
Holland College bioscience student wins $30,000 research grant

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • Article contentA second-year bioscience student at Holland College has been awarded a $30,000 Wawanesa Climate Champions youth innovation grant. Jeshuah Gilroy’s research examines a process called bioremediation – using a unique mix of bacteria and fungi to breakdown quinoline, a toxic industrial pollutant. The carcinogenic compound poses significant health risks when it contaminates water and soil, and it can also produce nitrous oxide, a harmful greenhouse gas.
JOCELYNE LLOYD: Dear Prime Minister - please offer us a brighter future

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentAs Canadians get ready for another sitting of Parliament in the coming weeks, some faces will be new to the House of Commons while others will have tread the hallowed halls for many years, or even decades.
LETTERS: The real impact of Charlottetown's official plan and other P.E.I. letters

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentCHARLOTTETOWN PLAN’S LASTING IMPACTFor those who missed it, due to short notice, the City of Charlottetown is at it again, inviting taxpayers to yet another information “opportunity” regarding the new official plan. This one was on Monday, April 7, at the library to “inform” the bylaw consultants’ coming work.
Military exercise, Northumberland Ferries tour planned for eastern P.E.I.

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

• Article contentThere will be activity on and around the water in southern Kings County, P.E.I., this weekend as a military exercise and tours of the new Wood Islands ferry are set to take place. HMCS Queen Charlotte will be hosting a large-scale small boat exercise in Charlottetown and Wood Islands from April 25 until April 27. The exercise will host over 100 sailors from across the country, as well as soldiers from 33 Field Ambulance and 37 Service Battalion.
JOCELYNE LLOYD: Vote strategically or go with your gut, but whatever you do, vote

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentI remember sitting in my grandfather’s kitchen when my boyfriend broached the forbidden topic of politics. My grandfather laughed when he heard the young man intended to vote for the NDP. “You’re throwing your vote away,” the older man chuckled. He likely was voting Conservative in whatever election it was, and had probably only ever voted red or blue. But I didn’t know for sure since, as I said, it was not considered polite to talk politics around the table.
LETTERS: Views on western alienation, Carney's cabinet, Charlottetown smoking and more

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentTIME TO STAND UNITEDCanada is entering into a time of unprecedented upheaval causing fear and uncertainty. Is this the time, therefore, for parts of our country to be talking about and advocating for secession? Have the advocates propounding this “route” not heard or understood the old adage: “United we stand and divided we fall”?
LETTER: Confederation Bridge – the missing details

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • • Article contentPremier Rob Lantz continues, in the midst of a federal election and an over-exaggerated trade-war, to press the case that the Confederation Bridge tolls are a barrier to trade, without details for where that leaves the Island taxpayer and Island life as we know it. Although the provincial legislature resumed after a month-long prorogation, for reasons unknown and without objection from the Opposition, the premier is not forthcoming with information.
JOCELYNE LLOYD: Gettysburg is not the distant past

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Jocelyne Lloyd

Advertisement 1 • Article contentIn 1863, African American farmer James Warfield and his family were living freely on 13 acres of land above the Mason-Dixon line, earning a living from their farm, blacksmith shop and small orchard. The Warfields had left Maryland a few years before and should have had every reason to believe they were free from the horror of slavery present in the communities to the south.