Volunteers from Save Lorneville recently held a public discussion at the Saint John Newcomers Centre, where activists called for sustained opposition to a controversial proposed AI data centre in the area. The event, which took place on Oct. 17, featured Hamilton, Ont.-based activist and researcher...

A 1696 battle at the confluence of the Wolastoq and Nashwaak rivers is one of the stories told in Andrew MacLean's fifth book in the series called Backyard History: Wartime Stories From The Maritimes. Historic Christ Church Cathedral was the setting of MacLean’s talk about...

Le 7 octobre dernier, comme partie de son examen examen public sur la levée du moratoire sur le gaz de schiste, le gouvernement a lancé un sondage sur « l’exploitation du gaz naturel » au Nouveau-Brunswick. En tant que spécialistes des méthodes de sondage et...

On October 7, as part of its public review of lifting the shale gas moratorium, the government launched a survey on “natural gas development” in New Brunswick. As independent academic experts in survey methodology and discourse analysis, we believe this survey is problematic in several...

With homelessness in Fredericton being a top concern, an exhibition of photographs is giving voice to the people behind the statistics. According to the 2026 Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy Community Homelessness Report for Fredericton, 806 people were identified as being homeless for at least...

This edition of the NB Update looks at an issue that affects people across the country: racism in the health care system. New Brunswick's commissioner on systemic racism, Dr. Manju Varma, wrote in her final report in 2022 that her office “was inundated with complaints...

This piece is a companion to the article: “I want people to understand”: Writers in Gaza publish zines through volunteer-led Coastal Lines Press. I read Coastal Lines Press zines Beneath Gaza’s Stars by Heba Ali and Midnight Thoughts in Gaza by Mohammed Al-Bardawili with a...

Edward Said was always a familiar name at my dinner table. Since I was a child, I walked past our oak bookshelf that carried the spine of his magnum opus Orientalism, intrigued by its cover image of a thick blue snake coiled around the torso...