New Brunswick fails to provide safe housing for our most vulnerable populations
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was facing what so many people are facing now: the fear and stress of sliding ...
Tag: poverty
NB Power is in debt and the world is in a climate crisis, and we, the consumer, should not pay more
Thirteen years ago, on a cold March day in 2008, Bertrand Durelle found his 53-year-old brother unconscious, hypothermic and frostbitten ...
Salute to Jean-Claude Basque, Common Front organizer and activist for over twenty years
On behalf of the entire membership of the Common Front for Social Justice as well as the many workers and ...
Growing support to end New Brunswick’s punitive wage clawback for social assistance recipients
Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by ...
Pandemic calls for new thinking, as Higgs’s address calls for sticking to course
Fredericton – The Common Front for Social Justice New Brunswick is pushing the Higgs government to rethink its priorities for ...
Common Front opposes Irving Oil’s threat to raise heating costs for New Brunswickers
The Common Front for Social Justice New Brunswick opposes in the strongest terms Irving Oil’s pressure campaign to increase the ...
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 ...
New Brunswick needs to better support social assistance recipients in COVID-19 crisis: Common Front for Social Justice
Letter to Premier Higgs and members of the all-party cabinet committee on COVID-19. The New Brunswick Common Front for Social ...
Hundreds march in Moncton for pay equity
Moncton – More than 200 people marched in downtown Moncton this afternoon, calling on the provincial government and all MLAs ...
Common Front campaign targets myths, prejudices about people living in poverty
A campaign targeting the most common myths and prejudices about people living in poverty is being launched today (January 27, ...