Economy

July 19, 2050 (Kingston Peninsula, NB) Dear New Brunswickers, I’m old but happy sitting on my deck looking at the beautiful...

NB Power announced at the end of June that it would close its Milltown generating station and remove the dam. As...

A federal joint task force report seriously addresses how coal energy workers in Canadian communities can transition away from coal in...

March 1, 2030 (Fredericton, NB) Dear New Brunswickers, I’m excited for next week. It’ll be Wednesday March 6, 2030 and I’ll...

“We have a sort of arms for oil arrangement,” says Anthony Fenton, PhD candidate at York University. “Buying oil from Saudi...

“I remember the silence at the kitchen table” said John Norman, the mayor of Bonavista, Newfoundland, describing the cod fishery closure...

No one yet recognizes the Koch-led US Big Oil plan to extract Saudi-like treasure from Canada’s boreal forests and to transport...

June 14, 2050 (Belledune, NB) Dear New Brunswickers, I’m old now—hard to believe I’ve made it to this age—but I still...

As of 2016, an alarming 19.9% of Fredericton’s population was living in poverty. Poverty is a difficult concept to define. Definitions...

Any doubt the Higgs government may have had about the strength of the opposition to fracking was dispelled over three...