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New Brunswick Communists not on ballot, but still campaigning in election

By Communist Party, Fredericton Club With the sudden calling of an election by Progressive Conservative premier Blaine Higgs, New Brunswick faces the possibility of a Conservative majority government – this is a bid for unchecked power. A [...]

New Brunswick Tories grab for power in snap election call

By Caleb Thompson New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has called a snap election for September 14, well in advance of the 2022 date established by the provincial Legislative Assembly Act, which mandates that a general election be held every [...]

East coast Indigenous nation asserts right to harvest wood

The second-largest Indigenous nation in New Brunswick is suing the provincial government for depriving it of a treaty right to harvest timber. The Wolastoqey Nation, which occupies the watershed of the Wolastoq (Saint John) River in western New [...]

In Fredericton, working class allies defend Indigenous rights against Big Oil

By Caleb Thompson On Friday, February 14, dozens of activists gathered at Fredericton’s city hall in support of the Wet’suwet’en people, whose land is being invaded and stolen. Activists then marched to Westmorland Street Bridge where they [...]

New Brunswick Nursing Home Workers Fight Tory Austerity

The majority women workers in nursing homes in New Brunswick are the first to step up against Higgs’ new austerity government.

New Brunswick Election Ends in Minority Government

The rise of the Greens and the right-wing People's Alliance party has resulted in a minority provincial government in New Brunswick.

Corporate Gains Leave Ordinary Workers In The Dust

The picture is one of centralisation of the country's capital over the last 40 years into a small number of very large companies.

Mi’kmaq Nation Files Claim To A Third of New Brunswick

Leaders from Elsipogtog, a Mi’kmaq first nation community in eastern New Brunswick, have filed for Aboriginal title to the traditional Mi’kmaq district of Sikniktuk.

New Brunswick’s Threatened Wildlife Habitat

New Brunswick's forest industry has been dominated since the mid-20th century by the Irving company, which has a status almost approaching that of a feudal ruler. In spite of ongoing expressions of concern by local biologists that the forest was [...]