CUPE keeps the pressure on the Higgs government
CUPE members are keeping up their protest against the government's attempt to remove their rights. About 500 CUPE members came ...
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A critical analysis of the PC budget for Social Development
In a letter published in the Telegraph-Journal, Dorothy Shephard, New Brunswick's Minister of Social Development, said that some of us ...
Stopping glyphosate spraying in a province captured by industry
How can residents stop glyphosate spraying on public and private forest land, in a province captured by industry? The province ...
Nursing home workers rally for fair wages on budget day
Several hundred members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) held a "Rally for Fair Wages" in front of ...
Coalition for Seniors supports collective bargaining and decent wages for NB’s nursing home workers
On behalf of the Coalition for Seniors, I stand here today to speak against government action to interfere with the ...
Higgs’ proposals will not reduce poverty
Une version française suit le texte anglais. In his state of the province address, Premier Blaine Higgs took up the ...
Opposition Day at the Legislature: Pay equity and fracking debated
After the recent provincial election resulted in a historic four-party minority government, the NB Media Co-op stated it would write ...
New government in – time to move on a new Crown Lands and Forests Act
Well, wasn’t that a rigmarole determining who our new government will be on the heels of an indecisive election? But ...
Partisan homework and the prism of language in New Brunswick
The judicial recounts in two New Brunswick ridings seem to confirm the party equilibrium in the upcoming Legislative Assembly. Nonetheless, ...
Bring back pre-2009 tax rates: NB economists
Minister of Finance Blaine Higgs’ recent announcement that the provincial fiscal deficit will be about $356 million – twice as ...
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