Regenerative farming supports local food distribution
Farmers markets are such a feel-good spot. A bustle of happy people, good smells, beautiful fresh produce, and carefully made ...
Month: February 2020
Keep asphalt paving out of Odell Park
This month, the City of Fredericton released the final draft of its Odell Park Management Plan. Most of the proposed ...
Questions unanswered about attempts to reduce rural hospital services
Everyone in rural New Brunswick knows that our access to health care is likely to require some travel, even for ...
Fight against Sackville hospital cuts is not over yet
For the second time in four days, hundreds gathered on Feb. 17 outside Sackville Memorial Hospital to oppose cuts to ...
Unfinished business: banning replacement workers in New Brunswick
Replacement workers? Strikebreakers? Scabs? Call them what you will, bringing in replacement workers during a strike is one of the ...
Fredericton outside workers ratify agreement
Good news came quickly for Fredericton outside workers represented by CUPE Local 508 after a bitterly cold weekend on the ...
Changing the NB Electricity Act to support renewable energy
An open letter to the Members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, the leadership of NB Power and the ...
“Where there are scabs, there is violence”: why Quebec and BC banned strikebreakers
Late Friday afternoon on February 14, Fredericton City Council voted to use strikebreakers ("replacement workers") during a labour dispute. Happy ...
‘I will fight with you,’ Mitton promises protesters during rally at Sackville hospital
Hundreds of demonstrators marched Thursday to the Sackville Memorial Hospital to protest against cuts in services announced this week by the Horizon ...
Fredericton contracts elite “union-busters” after locking out its outside workers
Fredericton mayor Mike O'Brien called a special meeting of City Council at 5pm on Friday, Feb 14 to consider its ...