From: Travel Video TV News

Year-Long Festivities Honor Canada’s Green Gables Heroine
ATLANTIC CANADA, February, 2008 – A pastoral island in the Canadian Maritimes is celebrating a cherished heroine on her 100th “birthday.” Lucy Maud Montgomery’s red-haired orphan, Anne of Green Gables has charmed millions of readers all over the world for almost a century. In her honor, Prince Edward Island (PEI) is hosting a year-long series of ceilidhs and kitchen parties, country fairs and concerts, picnics, barn dances and firelight story-telling sessions. Read more…

From: CBC

Plans to create a Crown corporation to manage tourism for the province of P.E.I. and reduce the size of the Tourism Advisory Council have led to some friction between government and the industry.

As part of her plan, new Tourism Minister Valerie Docherty intends to cut the TAC, an industry group that advises government, from 40 members to between 12 and 15. read more…