Government of Prince Edward Island

African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) communities in high-income countries continue to experience persistent health inequities, driven by systemic anti-Black racism, socioeconomic disadvantage, and exclusion from health decision-making. Historically, data have been extracted from ACB communities without transparency, accountability, or community ownership. These inequitable practices have produced data systems that reinforce harm rather than promote equity. Equitable data governance, which promotes community ownership over data collection, access, and use, is increasingly recognized as a critical but underresearched determinant of health equity. This protocol outlines the methodology of a scoping review to identify and synthesize evidence on the determinants of equitable data governance in health research involving ACB communities in high-income countries. The review follows the 6-stage Arksey and O'Malley methodological framework, supplemented with updated guidance from the Joanna Briggs Institute. The searches were conducted in the Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, EBSCO CINAHL, APA PsycInfo, and Scopus databases. Peer-reviewed articles are considered, with no limits placed on study design, publication type, or date. Multiple reviewers will independently extract data by using a standardized form. A 3-phase thematic mapping process, conceptually informed by critical race theory, intersectionality, and community-based participatory research principles, will be conducted to analyze the data, generate themes, and interpret findings. The final comprehensive database searches were completed on December 17, 2024. The search strategy targeted literature on data management, governance, sharing, security, and ethical principles in relation to ACB populations in high-income countries. A total of 4365 records were screened at the title and abstract level, after deduplication, of which 247 studies were deemed potentially relevant and advanced to full-text screening. Following full-text screening and reference list searching a total of 15 articles were deemed eligible for analysis. The data extraction stage is scheduled to overlap and occur between November 2025 and February 2026. The thematic mapping and stakeholder consultations processes are scheduled between December 2025 and February 2026. The final review and manuscript submission are expected by March 2026, with dissemination activities planned for mid-2026. This review will synthesize existing information on key pillars, barriers, facilitators, promising data governance policies and practices, and recommendations relevant to ACB communities. The findings may inform the expansion of Ontario's Engagement, Governance, Access, and Protection guidelines and support tailored research and national data governance frameworks. The review is expected to contribute to policy, research, and community-led data initiatives. Dissemination will occur through academic publications, conferences, and community-based knowledge-sharing events. As the review relies solely on publicly available data, ethics approval is not required. OSF Registries 10.17605/OSF.IO/Z82AY; https://osf.io/z82ay. PRR1-10.2196/82403.

Live Well PEI provides individuals and organizations in PEI with information and tools to support healthy behaviours. This paper describes the development of the Live Well PEI community-mobilization intervention, consisting of a website and integrated community granting program for health promotion initiatives. (1) What is an effective design of a web-based community-mobilization intervention for community-led health promotion and (2) what lessons can be learned and shared for community-engaged, evidence-informed public health intervention development? Intervention development followed the Six Steps in Quality Intervention Development (6SQuID) process. Through literature reviews, jurisdictional scans, expert consultations, and community engagement, evidence for conditions that foster community mobilization was gathered and used to inform development of intervention components. The intervention was refined through iterative expert and community consultations. Four conditions that foster community-led health promotion were identified: accessibility of grant funding, availability of community data, resources to enhance capacity, and community collaboration. These conditions informed outputs of a Theory of Change. Intervention design that supports these conditions included website elements such as collections of evidence-informed health promotion interventions, stories of prior community-led projects, and community health status and needs information. The granting program integrates research and community feedback on project eligibility, grant administration and support for awardees. Findings from an evaluability assessment support pilot-testing implementation of the intervention. Development of the community-mobilization intervention provides a prime case example of evidence-informed, community-engaged public health intervention co-design. Learnings are applicable to community-focused health promotion initiatives across Canada.

Climate change is impacting different parts of Canada in a diverse manner. Impacts on temperature, precipitation, and stream flows have been reviewed and discussed region and province-wise. The average warming in Canada was 1.6 °C during the 20th century, which is 0.6 °C above the global average. Spatially, southern and western parts got warmer than others, and temporally winters got warmer than summers. Explicit implications include loss of Arctic ice @ 12.8% per decade, retreat of British Columbian glaciers @ 40–70 giga-tons/year, and sea level rise of 32 cm/20th century on the east coast, etc. The average precipitation increased since 1950s from under 500 to around 600 mm/year, with up to a 10% reduction in Prairies and up to a 35% increase in northern and southern parts. Precipitation patterns exhibited short-intense trends, due to which urban drainage and other hydraulic structures may require re-designing. Streamflow patterns exhibited stability overall with a temporal re-distribution and intense peaks. However, surface water withdrawals were well under sustainable limits. For agriculture, the rainfed and semi-arid regions may require supplemental irrigation during summers. Availability of water is mostly not a limitation, but the raised energy demands thereof are. Supplemental irrigation by water and energy-efficient systems, adaptation, and regulation can ensure sustainability under the changing climate.

Scandinavian countries are widely acknowledged as leaders in innovative models of care for their aging populations. To learn what might be potentially applicable to the health system in Canada, the Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) led a contingent of government, administrative, research and patient representatives to Denmark to directly observe Danish approaches for providing healthcare for older adults living with frailty. In this paper and based on what we learned from these observations, we discuss healthcare challenges faced by Canada's aging population for which Danish strategies provide clues as to where and how to improve care and system efficiencies, thereby maximizing the value of Canadian healthcare.

Abstract The persistence of aldicarb in groundwater of the fractured, sandstone aquifer of Prince Edward Island, Canada is assessed. Two potato fields were instrumented with nests of piezometers which were used in the hydraulic and chemical testing of the sandstone aquifer. Groundwaters were sampled and analysed for pH, EH, dissolved oxygen and ammonia, major ions and the toxic aldicarb species - aldicarb, aldicarb sulfoxide and aldicarb sulfone. Aldicarb persistence appears related to (1) its application at time of planting when soil water temperatures are low (<10°C) and (2) the inhibiting pH effect that the oxidation of ammonia-based fertilizers has on aldicarb degradation. It is recommended that aldicarb (i.e. Temik) be applied at the time of plant emergence rather than seeding, and only where the depth to the water table is 5 metres or more.