Blaine Higgs is holding us back
About a year ago, I wrote a piece for the NB Media Co-op in which I lamented the PC government’s ...
Month: January 2023
Front-page newspaper ads missed essential info about Higgs’s true 2022 record
The end of the year is a time for individuals and governments to take stock. On December 30, our Premier, ...
Shouldn’t a new and experimental nuclear reactor for New Brunswick deserve a federal impact assessment?
The federal minister of Environment and Climate Change has chosen to ignore public concerns about a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) for New Brunswick, favouring the nuclear industry and weakening oversight ...
Migrant workers in New Brunswick join nation-wide calls for permanent resident status for all
On December 16, migrant workers and organizers from Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) visited the Shediac office of Liberal ...
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Government report is ‘misleading’ on poverty reduction: Ability NB [video]
In October, New Brunswick's Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation, a Crown corporation tasked with poverty reduction, reported a big decline ...
Canadian universities’ disability policies are inadequate
In universities across Canada, accessibility provisions are offered only intermittently, leaving the nation’s roughly 200,000 disabled post-secondary students in a ...
First Nations in N.B. among 250 Indigenous communities that experienced long-term water advisories
A map of the country is shot through with blue markers, each one pointing to a First Nation that has ...
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Mock funeral held to mourn death of rental control in New Brunswick [video]
Rent control supporters paraded a coffin draped in a New Brunswick flag in downtown Moncton on Tuesday, part of a ...
‘We need to push back’: El Jones calls for prison abolition as province pushes ahead with $32M jail
As the New Brunswick government pressed ahead last fall with its controversial plan for a $32-million jail in Fredericton, poet, activist ...
Conservatives went sideways on housing as tenants got organized in 2022
Up until 2022, public debate about housing in New Brunswick was dominated by landlords. While tenants made only modest gains ...