Les congés de maladie payés par l'employeur font de nouveau les manchettes au Canada et au Nouveau-Brunswick. Le ministère de l'Éducation postsecondaire, de la Formation et du Travail a récemment lancé une consultation publique sur les congés de maladie payés au Nouveau-Brunswick. Actuellement, en vertu...

Employer-paid sick leave is making headlines again in Canada and in New Brunswick. The Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour recently launched a public consultation on paid sick leave in New Brunswick. Currently, under the Employment Standards Act, workers with the same employer for...

There’s something wrong with this picture, and it enrages me. The Prix France-Acadie, a literary prize whose jury is chaired by Alain Dubos, will not be awarded this year, because apparently not a single book was good enough to deserve it. (See the articles on...

A dispute over pensions that prolonged the 2021 strike by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in New Brunswick is again causing a heated conflict between the public sector union and the Higgs government. Only two CUPE contracts, both for provincial education workers, have...

In Isaac’s Way Restaurant hangs a drawing full of words, numbers, and cartoonish faces. The faces spin, baring their teeth and glaring with wide eyes. The words weave between them. “NEEDLE,” they say. “FEED ME." One face is violet with a blue beard, the title...

Ya dequoi qui cloche dans le portrait. Ça m'enrage. Le prix littéraire France-Acadie présidé par Alain Dubos ne sera pas remis cette année, parce qu’apparemment AUCUN livre reçu était assez bon pour le mériter. (Articles sur le sujet à Radio-Canada et l'Acadie Nouvelle). Des maisons...

Nuclear power generation (NPG) has declined over the past several decades due to growing costs with aging reactors and the inability to find safe and acceptable locations to permanently store toxic nuclear waste. And yet, despite all the adversity surrounding NPG, advocates continue to trumpet...

The major news in the world of nuclear energy this month is the collapse of the Carbon Free Power Project in the United States. The project was to build six NuScale small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). Given NuScale’s status as the flagship SMR design not just...