Dump the Libs and Cons

07/01/2023

The New Brunswick legislature has flatly rejected a request for a one-time reading of a non-Christian prayer at the opening of an upcoming sitting day.

06/01/2023

vote them out.

Canada goes for gold tonight in the World Juniors against Czechia! 🥇

Blaine Higgs and I are cheering our boys on - let's go, Canada! 🇨🇦

IIHF World Junior Championship

05/01/2023

Transport Action Atlantic (TAA) is calling for an independent inquiry over VIA Rail's abysmal performance over...

04/01/2023

here's another conservative that cost the taxpayers a fortune

A judge has dismissed the New Brunswick government's application to stop a labour board inquiry into the firing of Margaret-Ann Blaney from her role as CEO of the defunct Crown agency known as Energy Efficiency N.B.

04/01/2023

Up until 2022, public debate about housing in New Brunswick was dominated by landlords. While tenants made only modest gains on the legal front this past year, they took the conversation back, and began a more constructive debate about how we are going to climb out of the deep affordable housing cri...

03/01/2023

03/01/2023

sounds familiar

🚨 The Government have no interest in helping the NHS through the current crisis.

🙉 They are CHOOSING to bury their heads in the sand and put lives at risk.

🤝 A responsible government would listen to staff, negotiate on pay and protect patients.

03/01/2023

An evolving mix of opioid cocktails and changing consumption habits mean governments must now respond more aggressively to the overdose crisis, experts say.

03/01/2023

Nombreux sont ceux qui ont marqué l’actualité de la dernière année grâce à leurs exploits, leurs prises de position ou leur contribution au débat public. Afin de souligner la période des Fêtes de fin d’année, le comité éditorial de l’Acadie Nouvelle vous propose une liste des 22 pe...

02/01/2023

This commentary was first published by the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal on December 28, 2022. In early December, Blaine Higgs held a six-minute media conference that now seems a culminating mome…

02/01/2023

“Being poor is only romantic in books.”
— Sidney Sheldon

30/12/2022

30/12/2022

"There is a lot more methane being added to the atmosphere than currently accounted for in any inventories or estimates," said one researcher.

29/12/2022

Trudy MacInnis spent her Christmas holidays in a snowsuit — inside her own house. MacInnis said she lost power at her home in Bath in western New Brunswick on the evening of Dec. 23, and it wasn’t until the afternoon on Christmas Day that she got it back.

29/12/2022

Before her books were bestsellers, Kate Beaton left home to pay her student loans. Her new graphic novel looks at gender, power, environment — and people — in Alberta’s oilsands

29/12/2022

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

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29/12/2022

29/12/2022

Acadie Nouvelle editorial writer François Gravel agreed to take stock of the year 2022 in a short interview with Bernadette Landry for the NB Media Co-op. What were the three most significant events of 2022 in New Brunswick? F. Gravel: 2022 was a very bad year for francophones in New Brunswick and ...

28/12/2022

Today, Albert Mines may look like any roadside lot with a mix of grassy space and woods, but this 324-hectare site south of Moncton has a very important place in history. In the 1800s, this was the site of the "first commercial extraction of petroleum products," according to the Albert County Museum...

28/12/2022

NARCISSISTS & Pathological Liars

27/12/2022

When Blaine Higgs worked for Irving Oil, he was a loyal company man. Now, he leads New Brunswick. In the first of a three-part series, National Observer delves into the close relationships between the premier's office and the Irvings.

26/12/2022

A recent climate risk report noted that Nova Scotia is projected to receive just two weeks' worth of snowy days by 2100. That will have consequences for sectors across the province.

26/12/2022

libs and cons have no political will to tax the billionaires.

Our home-grown billionaires have been protected by their anonymity—it’s time to start putting names and faces to their political and economic crimes.

The Billionaire Banquet is our Pac-Man parody in which your mission is to to claw back our public wealth and—while you’re at it—eat Canada’s most deplorable billionaires.

Play the game at billionairegame.ca

26/12/2022

Fredericton’s planning advisory committee has recommended against arezoning proposal to build the new jail in Vanier Industrial Park, signalling trouble ahead for the project.

25/12/2022

Power grabs in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario reveal how little consideration seems to be given to Indigenous peoples’ constitutionally protected rights

24/12/2022

Members of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick, Ms. Erika Hachey, President of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick, Mr. Greg Turner, Caucus Chair, As you well know, New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada. Far from being a weakness, this bili...