Food bank use in New Brunswick continues to rise
Food Banks Canada has released their annual report, Hunger Counts, and New Brunswick has experienced once again an increase in ...
Tag: social assistance
Invest in New Brunswick?
Our province is going through rough economic times. Since the 2008 economic crisis brought upon us by our friends in ...
Freelance no more: thoughts from a young worker on Labour Day
Next week, I will leave Halifax and head to Ontario to be employed in my first full-time, permanent job, ever. ...
Panhandling in Fredericton: the facts
Panhandling is a subsistence activity of last resort for thousands of homeless and vulnerably housed Canadians in cities from coast ...
Gathering of people left out of NB’s 2012-13 budget
Under the lighting of candles, 70 citizens met during the evening of April 17th, in front of Assumption Place in ...
Federal and provincial budgets cut public services, affect the most vulnerable: NB Federation of Labour
Moncton – Last week, the New Brunswick and Canadian Governments made public their budgets for fiscal year 2012-2013. Both budgets ...
One out of seven New Brunswickers is invisible in Minister Higgs’ Budget: Common Front
“In Minister Blaine Higgs’ budget speech – Rebuilding New Brunswick Together, people living in poverty don’t seem to exist since ...
Common Front for Social Justice calls for action against poverty in province’s budget
Letter to Premier David Alward: Within the next few days, your government will table its 2012-2013 budget. For the Common ...
To NB financial planners: daylight saving time is here!
As late as the 1950s, Kent County school trustees could hire a 17-year-old girl to teach the village children for ...
Common Front for Social Justice concerned about dental care for those on social assistance
Honorable Sue Stulz: The New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice is very concerned by the turn in negotiations between ...
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