Media Releases

The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held virtually due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, January 12, 2022.

For Immediate Release: December 15, 2021 Today the Town of Stratford released the results of its 1st survey of the local business community. Similar to the Annual Resident Survey held each winter, the business survey offered an opportunity to the local business community to have their say while providing feedback to Council and staff.

The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, December 8, 2021.

It's time to help staff and council as we develop the Town's 2022-23 budget. We want to know your opinions on our spending priorities - where you believe we need to spend more, or less, of your tax dollars. And now is the time to also make any requests for spending in other areas or on specific projects.

For Immediate Release: November 12, 2021 The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, November 12, 2021.

The Town of Stratford, with funding through Veterans Affairs Canada’s Commemorative Partnership Program - Community War Memorial Funding, today officially unveiled a new addition to the Town’s cenotaph.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 ​ The Town of Stratford invites Stratford residents, family, friends, and visitors to honour our veterans virtually in 2021, or by visiting the cenotaph at Stratford Town Centre on their own time throughout the week of Remembrance Day.

For Immediate Release: October 20, 2021 In 2021 the Town has heard from residents through a Long-Term Budget Priorities exercise and the Annual Resident Survey, both of which inform the decision-making process on projects and expenditures including applications submitted earlier this year to the Province of PEI for Investing in Canada Program (ICIP) funding.

The public is hereby notified of the following request which Stratford Town Council is amenable in granting:

The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. Community Campus Land Lease Request Policy A resolution was approved creating the Community Campus Land Lease Request Policy, Policy #2021-RCE-01. Through this policy...

Today the Town of Stratford launches its first annual business survey providing the Stratford business community an opportunity to have their say while providing feedback to Council and staff.

The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, September 8, 2021.

The Town of Stratford, in collaboration with T3 Transit and Kari, is proud to launch on-demand transit in a portion of the unserviced areas of Ward 3. This pilot project will launch on September 20th and run until December 2021.

For Immediate Release: August 12, 2021 The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, August 11, 2021.

The following item was discussed at Special Council Meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Interim Financing A resolution was passed to allow the Town to obtain short term financing of $2,500,000 to finalize the purchase of the Community Campus lands through a...

The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, June 14, 2021, and at the Special Council Meeting held on Thursday, July 15, 2021.

On Monday, July 12, Charlottetown City Council voted to launch a new residential energy efficiency and renewable programming, ‘Switch Charlottetown’, aimed at addressing the climate change emergency. The Switch programs, which will also be adopted later this month by the Towns of Stratford PE and Wolfville NS as ‘Switch Stratford’ and ‘Switch Wolfville’ respectively, represent Canada’s first multi-provincial energy efficiency and renewable program operating under a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing Model.

The 2021 Canada Day plans in Stratford are going to look a lot like they did in 2020. With COVID-19 restrictions still in place, the Town of Stratford has been working on a Canada Day lineup that feels much like it did last year. The recent discoveries of children in unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools will also be acknowledged in the plans.

For Immediate Release: June 18, 2021 During National Indigenous History Month, the Town of Stratford is proud to install six signs in our community to acknowledge and appreciate the history of our community as a Mi'kmaq summer camping location. The installations are now complete and include the following:

For Immediate Release: June 11, 2021 The following items were discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the Stratford Town Council held on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. More...