Ottawa and four provinces have jumped on the small modular nuclear reactor (SMNR) bandwagon and if things go as announced there will be SMNRs operating in Canada by the end of this decade. New Brunswick has given a total of $30 million to two [...]
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 [...]
"Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!" The words are those of Karl Marx in Das Kapital and describe the fundamental character of capital which is to expand itself, bringing ever larger spheres of human activity and the natural [...]
Activists from PEACE-NB, Council of Canadians, and the Communist Party picketed Saint John harbour, hindering the progress of armoured cars to Saudi Arabia.
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 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 [...]
