Proposal to expand powers of province and peace officers to be amended next week
On Wednesday the Higgs government introduced Bill 49 to amend the Emergency Measures Act. The blowback was immediate and intense. ...
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New Brunswick ends eviction ban despite risks to tenants
Today the New Brunswick government is lifting the ban on tenant evictions. A Fredericton lawyer and tenant is speaking against ...
Toilet paper in a time of tax havens: New Brunswick politician calls J.D. Irving’s charity “spam,” tables motion to ban financial assistance to companies that use tax havens
Lisez la version française ici. On May 27, Kevin Arseneau, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Kent North, tabled a ...
Will CUPE nursing home workers in New Brunswick accept the new tentative agreement?
Earlier this week, for the second time in two years, the union representing more than 4,100 nursing home workers in ...
Legislative changes required to support essential workers in New Brunswick
As we move through the COVID-19 pandemic, two issues have become obvious. First, to stop the spread of the COVID-19 ...
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Tertulia in the time of coronavirus: Matthew Sears on the ancient plagues [video]
University of New Brunswick classics professor Matthew Sears delivered the most recent tertulia in the time of coronavirus on May ...
COVID-19 and front-line janitors: study to examine working conditions
A new study launched by the Canadian Capital Stewardship Network (CCSN) will assess Canadian real estate managers’ response to COVID-19 ...
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Coloniality of Coronavirus [video]
As coronavirus spreads, numerous inequalities and injustices are being exposed. Indigenous communities are warning of how unabated resource extraction threatens ...
Time to take care of the workers who take care of us: Social work student to Premier Higgs
Dear Premier Blaine Higgs, I am a social work student at St. Thomas University. Before I started graduate school back ...
24-hour picket by workers locked-out in Northern New Brunswick
A 24-hour picket by union members ends this morning outside the Red Pine solid waste landfill in Allardville south of ...