There is an increasing disparity between university’s academic freedom statements and its actions. These comments were made during a talk held October 8 titled “Strengthening academic freedom in the corporatized university” by James Turk. A researcher on academic freedom, Turk is the director of the...

The provincial government has announced $2 million in new funding for a Moncton-based company that has attracted protest for supplying American military giant Lockheed Martin, which builds fighter jets for customers that include the Israeli Air Force. Opportunities NB, the economic development agency, announced the...

With NB Power's Coleson Cove Generating Station near Saint John set to sunset in about 15 years, will the provincial Crown corporation switch from burning one kind of fossil fuel to burning another kind? Coleson Cove burns bunker C oil, a heavy, tar-like leftover petroleum...

This is the latest dispatch from Rizek Abdel Jawad, a photojournalist based in Gaza City who frequently contributes to the NB Media Co-op. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hajj Ahmed, 37, from the northern Gaza Strip, is pictured treating patients in his tent, located just 60 m from the "yellow...

To the University of New Brunswick and wider communities, We are writing as faculty members in Gender and Women Studies, as well as members of the community, with deep sorrow, frustration, and outrage regarding recent events that can only be described as emblematic of rape...

Ottawa's multibillion dollar increase in military spending has been met with practically no pushback from mainstream media, even as the federal government shifts funding from public services to American war contractors under an increasingly belligerent Trump administration. That was one of the takeaways from a...

In a province where 53 per cent of adults in New Brunswick face literacy challenges, lovers of literature came together for the first ever Writers of the Realm Literary Festival in Fredericton on Sept. 19. Sakura Blue Studios held the inaugural festival at the Fredericton...

This edition of the NB Update features reports from an ongoing series of media workshops at Elsipogtog First Nation hosted by the NB Media Co-op. The first interview highlights an alternative court program in Elsipogtog that aims to divert Indigenous people from the prison system,...