Brynn Devine News Today

After years of being only two-thirds full on an average night, an overnight emergency shelter for women in Charlottetown is now packed most of the time, and usually has a waiting list for beds. 

We tend to think of vertebrates as living about as long as we do, give or take 50 to 100 years. That notion has been completely trashed by a fish — the Greenland shark.

Staff at Blooming House, the women's shelter in Charlottetown, say they're seeing big demand for beds.

Everything about the Greenland shark seems to be slow: these long-bodied animals swim slowly, grow slowly and reach maturity slowly. Their maturity rate is so sluggish, in fact, that scientists believe they don’t start reproducing until they’re about 150 years old — and that they can live anywhere from 270 to 500 years, making them […]

A Greenland shark was spotted off the coast of Belize, raising the possibility the sharks are more widespread than previously thought.

The rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 across Canada and P.E.I. is putting an especially challenging strain on organizations that serve more vulnerable community members.