Opinion
CUPE lauds decisive win for public health care in BC Supreme Court decision
It's a development that will have repercussions across the country. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is applauding the BC Supreme...
Read more
What do the New Brunswick political parties promise for low-income workers, people in poverty and women?
The New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice asked all political party leaders to tell us their proposals to help...
Read more
Is Blaine Higgs applying the “shock doctrine” in New Brunswick?
In her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Canadian author Naomi Klein describes how right-wing governments use...
Read more
The left should watch New Brunswick’s election closely
Key battles for socialists in Canada are being fought in the province, many of them on the ballot in some...
Read more
Election issue analysis: nuclear energy in 10 lessons
Both the PC leader Blaine Higgs and the LIberal leader Kevin Vickers have made nuclear power an election issue. Both...
Read more
Labour Day message from the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
This year, we cannot celebrate Labour Day the same way as we have done in the past. Typically, labour councils...
Read more
We need a public consultation on radioactive waste in New Brunswick
Days before the current provincial election was called, I wrote to Seamus O'Regan, federal minister of Natural Resources, requesting that...
Read more
Stop Spraying New Brunswick’s report card on political parties
The 2019-2020 sessions of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (Second and Third of the 59th Legislature) have seen some...
Read more
Abortions are not accessible in New Brunswick, despite what Blaine Higgs says
As Clinic 554 inches toward its permanent closure at the end of September, discussion has increased among New Brunswick citizens...
Read more
Will the new finance minister redirect $19 billion from fighter jets to a gender-aware budget?
The newly installed Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has previously claimed that Canada has "pursued a feminist foreign policy," also highlighting that "women's rights are...
Read more