Tagged New Brunswick

Stop Irving Oil’s “pandemic profiteering”

Editorial The richest family in New Brunswick just doesn’t feel quite rich enough. And it is prepared to hold the province’s most vulnerable people hostage as it pressures the government to guarantee higher “pandemic profits.” The Irving Oil [...]

New Brunswick campaign for long-term care reform gathers steam

When New Brunswick’s Conservative Party won a majority in the recent snap election, it expected a clear path to deep austerity and sweeping privatization. But the province’s labour and community movements are quickly mobilizing a campaign to defend [...]

Election victory gives NB Tories free hand to carry out austerity

Communists committed to building working class resistance By Fredericton Club, CPC Though disappointing, the results of New Brunswick’s provincial election are unsurprising. The Tories won a majority with 27 seats, the Liberals won 17 seats, [...]

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.