New Brunswickers are resorting to medical tourism to access monkeypox vaccines
Disappointment is growing over the time lag in New Brunswick’s inadequate human monkeypox response. Despite the growing incidence of infections ...
Tag: New Brunswick
New Brunswick faces wake-up call on disabilities
Our province is awash in a virtual tsunami of disability, and yet, from public debate, you would barely know it. ...
Voices of health care workers and community organizations must be heard on health care
The voices of New Brunswick’s health care workers and community organizations must be heard on any changes to the health ...
Common Front warns recent health care announcements will lead to privatization of services
The Common Front for Social Justice New Brunswick is concerned that recent changes in the health care system would open ...
New Brunswick’s unchecked timber industries have left our forests in ruin and our people without land
With a warm coffee in hand, Babalu Eye Anu Shabazz tells me the story of his father’s life. We had ...
The American abortion nightmare
If it wasn't really a surprise, it is still a shock: on Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court of the ...
Fate of internationally educated nurses in post-pandemic New Brunswick uncertain
Nurses were the arrowheads in the fight against COVID-19 in New Brunswick. They were (and are) the province’s first and ...
Colonialism in the Higgs government
Recent calls for an Indigenous-led public inquiry into systemic racism are the only appropriate response to the Higgs government. Blaine ...
The two New Brunswicks: One for the rich, one for everyone else
There are two versions of New Brunswick. One is occupied by Premier Blaine Higgs and those in his orbit. The ...
More than a century ago, rural queers were invisible. Thankfully, this same-sex couple had a camera
The following text originally appeared in Xtra Magazine on March 30, 2022. While LGBTQ2S+ history goes back millenia, our records ...