In this video, Inda Intiar with Woven Cultures Tissées speaks with artist Futong Kang, originally from Beijing, China. https://www.youtube.com/embed/L2fzUPJhWIU Kang studied Fine Arts and Design in China and taught art for years at a school in her home country. Although she has worked in many...

University of New Brunswick students detailed some of the complications of being a Person of Colour on campus in New Brunswick. For Black History Month, UNB Education Ph.D. student Alicia Noriega-Mundaroy hosted an online panel of UNB Students of Colour on February 3. The panel...

Mary McCarthy-Brandt delivered a talk on Abraham Beverley Walker, New Brunswick’s first Black lawyer and a prominent civil rights activist, writer, and lecturer, on January 27 that is now available for viewing here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEJ34GUAE5A&t=184s Dr. Mary McCarthy-Brandt is a Fredericton-based activist, writer, and educator dedicated...

The New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity is denouncing the New Brunswick government’s refusal to claim over $59 million in federal funds intended to fight COVID-19. The Coalition advocates for caregivers, who are mostly women, and are paid less because of their gender. The Coalition...

Acting Atlantic Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation Renaud Brossard misses the mark in his pre-budget recommendations to the New Brunswick Government (a recently published guest opinion in the Telegraph-Journal). Among the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's recommendations is a proposal to cut public sector wages by...

Former wildlife instructor and deer biologist Rod Cumberland is another step closer to getting his day in court. Eighteen months ago Cumberland was terminated from his job as an educator at the Fredericton-based Maritime College of Forest Technology (MCFT). He launched a lawsuit against the...

Editor’s note: The Fredericton Cultural Laureate position was created in 2016 and inaugurated by Ian Letourneau. Jenna Lyn Albert was Poet Laureate from January of 2019. In December 2020 a motion was presented to revise the role of Poet Laureate, removing the poetry reading from...

The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, a country-wide not-for-profit, made up of indiscriminate members, recently published their submission to the Government of New Brunswick for the 2021-22 provincial budget. Included in its recommendations are broad tax reforms for individuals and corporations, and, most alarmingly, a sweeping reduction...