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Update: The March 12 rally in Fredericton has been cancelled due to weather. Join the students instead on March 17 at the New Brunswick Legislature. Stay tuned for more details!

NB Power barred from raising electricity bills in April NB Power won’t be allowed to impose a steep interim rate hike to electricity prices on April 1. The New

NB Power barred from raising electricity bills in April

But regulator's decision likely only delays higher bill payments by a few months, as the panel weighs more evidence

Report by John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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Advocacy group seeks relief for the poor as NB Power pursues 4.75 per cent rate increase Energy poverty in New Brunswick is deepening, just as NB Power is heading into hearings to ask for another big

Advocacy group seeks relief for the poor as NB Power pursues 4.75 per cent rate increase

Human Development Council warns that one in four households that heat with electricity can’t afford their payments

Report by John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
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Students Against Cuts NB to rally before budget day With a lacklustre community consultation, a survey involving leading questions and unclear wording, New Brunswick Liberal Premier Susan Holt is

Students Against Cuts NB to rally before budget day

Students from across New Brunswick are organizing multiple protests. Join students on March 12 and March 17 at the New Brunswick Legislature in Fredericton.
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NB Update: Mining strategy a ‘sales pitch’ to industry | New edition of Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey dictionary This edition of the NB Update examines the provincial government's mining strategy and a newly published Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey dictionary. New Brunswick's

NB Update: Mining strategy a ‘sales pitch’ to industry | New edition of Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey dictionary [video]

Célébrons Johanne Perron et 25 ans de lutte pour l’équité salariale à l’occasion de la Journée des droits des L'année 2026 marque le 25e anniversaire de la Coalition pour l'équité salariale du Nouveau-Brunswick.  Peu de coalitions durent 25 ans.

Célébrons Johanne Perron et 25 ans de lutte pour l’équité salariale à l’occasion de la Journée des droits des femmes
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Celebrating Johanne Perron and 25 years of fighting for pay equity this International Women’s Day 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity.  Few coalitions last for 25 years. Fewer

Celebrating Johanne Perron and 25 years of fighting for pay equity this International Women’s Day
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NB Update: Mining strategy a ‘sales pitch’ to industry | New edition of Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey dictionary This edition of the NB Update examines the provincial government's mining strategy and a newly published Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey dictionary. New Brunswick's

This edition of the NB Update examines the provincial government’s mining strategy and a newly published Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey dictionary.
nbmediacoop.org/2026/03/07/n...

Photos: Library restoration underway in Gaza following bombardments Editor’s note: This is the latest photo essay by Rizek Abdel Jawad, a photojournalist from Gaza City whose work has

Photos: Library restoration underway in Gaza following bombardments

This is the latest photo essay by Rizek Abdel Jawad, a photojournalist from Gaza City.
nbmediacoop.org/2026/03/07/p...

What Saif Qadhafi’s killing means for Libyans On February 3, gunmen raided the home of Saif al-Islam Qadhafi, the most influential of former Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi's living children,

What Saif Qadhafi’s killing means for Libyans

Commentary by Owen Schalk
nbmediacoop.org/2026/03/06/w...

Questions remain about location of virtual care company set to sign with Holt government As the New Brunswick government negotiates a new virtual care services contract with Foundever Group, the opposition health critic still

Questions remain about location of virtual care company set to sign with Holt government

Report by Theresa Blackburn
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Canadians aren’t imagining the cost-of-living crisis The idea that Canada’s cost-of-living crisis “may be just a perception crisis” or the result of excessive exposure to social

Canadians aren’t imagining the cost-of-living crisis

The data show income growth, but structural insecurity in wages, housing and employment have fractured the link between work and economic security

Commentary by Carlo Fanelli
nbmediacoop.org/2026/03/04/c...

Debating Bill 23: An Act Respecting the Right to a Healthy Environment On March 26, MLAs will vote on Bill 23, An Act Respecting the Right to a Healthy Environment. Bill 23

Debating Bill 23: An Act Respecting the Right to a Healthy Environment

Commentary by Jean Louis Deveau
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Budgets as policy signals: What expenditures reveal about priorities Government budgets are commonly framed as responses to fiscal constraints. Deficits, revenue limits, and spending pressures are presented as the

Budgets as policy signals: What expenditures reveal about priorities

Commentary by Fariba Solati
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Economic eviction threatens New Brunswick’s youth In New Brunswick, youth are told that a post-secondary degree leads to good jobs and financial security. Yet, an unreleased

Economic eviction threatens New Brunswick’s youth

Commentary by Isabella Matchett
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NB Power has failed to make its case for gas plant The Energy and Utilities Board hearings over the past two weeks on the proposed Tantramar gas/diesel plant, known as the

NB Power has failed to make its case for gas plant

Hearings revealed the province’s grid isn’t at risk, and increases in electricity needs can be supplied through alternatives to fossil fuels
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Commentary: Jim Emberger

Faculty union president denounces proposed post-secondary cuts, privatization The president of the Mount Allison Faculty Association (MAFA) says she agrees with MLA Megan Mitton that the government’s proposals for

Faculty union president denounces proposed post-secondary cuts, privatization

Report by Bruce Wark
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The Government of New Brunswick says that "dialogue" is a core feature in its new mining industry strategy.

But a number of environmental groups were passed over in consultations leading up to its publication at an industry conference in Toronto. New from me:

Conservationists sidelined in lead-up to New Brunswick strategy for ‘sustainable mining’ The provincial government's newly released mining industry strategy contains multiple references to "environmental stewardship," but the Conservation Council of New

The provincial government’s newly released mining industry strategy contains multiple references to “environmental stewardship,” but the Conservation Council of NB says that environmental and community groups were sidelined by the Minister of Natural Resources John Herron during consultations.

Thousands sign petition opposing cuts to post-secondary education in New Brunswick An online petition calling on the Government of New Brunswick to reverse course on plans to cut tens of millions

ICYMI: An online petition calling on the Government of New Brunswick to reverse course on plans to cut tens of millions of dollars from the post-secondary budget has garnered thousands of signatures within just a few days.

Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social

Proposed higher education cuts will subordinate New Brunswick As Susan Holt’s Liberal Government announces devastating cuts to the province's post-secondary education sector, universities and colleges across the region

Proposed higher education cuts will subordinate New Brunswick

Commentary by Kristi Allain and Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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Tantramar diesel plant is a deal New Brunswick can’t afford New Brunswickers have been told that they’re facing a simple choice: a new gas and diesel plant in Tantramar or

Tantramar diesel plant is a deal New Brunswick can’t afford

When convenience drives a multibillion-dollar decision, ratepayers pay the price

Commentary: Beverly Gingras
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Proposed higher education cuts will subordinate New Brunswick As Susan Holt’s Liberal Government announces devastating cuts to the province's post-secondary education sector, universities and colleges across the region

"Holt has claimed to reverse course on the STU-UNB merger plans and Mount Allison privatization scheme, but that may be little more than sleight of hand to distract from the real target: a classic neoliberal transfer of wealth from the public sector to the private."

NEW piece on NB Holt debacle.

Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social

Consultations ‘hollow’ without greater self-determination, Indigenous-owned forestry company tells government The head of an Indigenous-owned forestry company in New Brunswick says that provincial government statements about consultation with Indigenous communities

The head of an Indigenous-owned forestry company in New Brunswick says that provincial government statements about consultation with Indigenous communities over forestry policy are “hollow” without efforts to increase self-determination.
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Province floats privatization of Mount Allison University, Green MLA calls proposed cuts ‘outlandish’ Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton is speaking out against the New Brunswick government’s suggestions for cuts to universities and colleges. “I

Province floats privatization of Mount Allison University, Green MLA calls proposed cuts ‘outlandish’

Report by Bruce Wark
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Nightmares and dreams of Iranian republicanism: the responsibility of intellectuals The following is an account of an Iranian student at Western University reflecting on the current protests in Iran and its

Nightmares and dreams of Iranian republicanism: the responsibility of intellectuals

Commentary by Bijan Behrangi
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Oral historian examines emotional geographies of childhood in wartime Atlantic Canada A historian shared painful accounts of childhoods in Halifax during the Second World War at the University of New Brunswick

Oral historian shared painful accounts of childhoods in Halifax during the Second World War at the University of New Brunswick on Feb. 19.

By Sophie M. Lavoie
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‘We are the ones left to tell’: Preserving the legacy of Black New Brunswick families It was standing-room-only crowd at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery on Feb. 19 for a talk about a new art project

‘We are the ones left to tell’: Preserving the legacy of Black New Brunswick families

By Sophie M. Lavoie
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Canada must end 'blatant double standards' in diplomacy, says international human rights lawyer YouTube video by NB Media Co-op

Canada must end 'blatant double standards' in diplomacy, says international human rights lawyer
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