Challenging NB Power’s use of “blood coal” from Colombia
New Brunswick’s economy has long centered on resource extraction. Timber, mining, and oil and gas, significant contributors to the province’s ...
Climate strike #4 at the NB Legislature: “Change needs to happen”
Despite demonstrations since March by youth across New Brunswick, and a Green Party motion in the New Brunswick Legislature to ...
Rural innovation: using technology to keep schools in communities
Many rural New Brunswick communities are searching for ways to avoid school closures and long bus rides for students to ...
Industry has captured NB’s environmental regulators
Controversy over the proposed gypsum mine/quarry by J.D. Irving's Hammond River Holdings near Upham in the Hammond River Watershed in ...
Radical love: Great trees of New Brunswick
More than 80 percent of New Brunswick's land is forest. Many environmental activists are challenging corporate control of forestry and ...
Open letter: Increase social assistance rates in New Brunswick
The New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice and 48 other organizations, including the NB Media Co-op, are calling on ...
Open letter: Labour council presidents across Canada #UniteAgainstRacism
Kevin Smallwood, President with the Fredericton Labour District Council, is among the early endorsers of an open letter by labour ...
Doctor: Support removal of remaining restrictions on abortion access in New Brunswick
Hi everyone, We've been battling to get restrictions on abortion access in New Brunswick repealed for the last five years. After ...
A message from the future (A letter from New Brunswick’s future #1)
In the optimistic spirit of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Message from the Future, this is a speculative look back from 2030, which ...
Opposition Day at the Legislature: Renewable energy bill passes to committee
For environmental activists, the highlight of opposition day on May 16 was the vote by the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly ...