What would Berta Cáceres make of today’s world had she not been murdered in her home five years ago on March 2, 2016? The Indigenous Lenca land defender in Honduras did not live to see the COVID pandemic. She did not live to see the...

David Frank: This is a letter written in 1945 by a young New Brunswick woman. Thelma O’Ree was one of the older sisters in a large family who lived on Charlotte Street in Fredericton. In the summer of 1956, she was the one who answered...

The latest research on New Brunswick's far-right and the politics of extremism and exclusion in the province was discussed at a panel on February 23. The panel discussion is now available for viewing here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGE2wyADys&feature=youtu.be   Brynn Trofimuk and Shayna Perry, MA students, UNB Sociology,...

The NB Media Co-op is 12 years old this year and we are more active than ever. A dedicated team of volunteers is working across the province to deliver news and commentary and we welcome you to join us by becoming a member, writing for...

Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by working. New Brunswick’s wage clawback policy means that a minimum wage earner with no dependents sees their pay slashed from $11.70 an hour to a...

Anti-racism campaigner Husoni Raymond is questioning why a Mount Allison University professor used him as an example to support her argument that racism doesn’t exist in New Brunswick. “NB is NOT racist,” Psychology Professor Rima Azar wrote in an online blog post on June 15, 2020. “Canada is...

On February 17, Bryan Palmer delivered the talk, "The Left in Our Age of Diminishing Expectations," that is now available for viewing here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4n_jhF1TGA What is the state of the left in our current conjuncture? On the one hand, popular mobilizations and contemporary sensibilities certainly...

La version française suit la version anglaise. During the recent virtual ParleOuere event on activism organized by the Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick, Professor Michelle Landry of the Université de Moncton argued that Acadians do not have a tradition of holding many demonstrations. I disagree...