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Pamela Palmater: Mi’kmaw fishers threatened with violence [video]

Canada

In this video, Pamela Palmater talks about the historical and legal context to the current Mi'kmaw State of Emergency declared by the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq Chiefs due to the racist and violent attacks by non-native fisherman against Mi'kmaw fishers. Palmater also talks about...

No business case for new nuclear reactors in New Brunswick

by M. V. Ramana

September 22, 2020

No business case for new nuclear reactors in New Brunswick

*Opinion*

Premier Blaine Higgs has endorsed so-called "small modular nuclear reactors" or SMRs. SMRs represent an untested technology but what we know on the basis of technical characteristics and historical precedent is that they will be expensive and any electricity they generate will not be economical....

Are we there yet? Neoliberal education and New Brunswick’s “Green Paper”

by Pamela Rogers

September 21, 2020

Are we there yet? Neoliberal education and New Brunswick’s “Green Paper”

*Opinion*

In 1994, Maude Barlow wrote that public education had become the “scapegoat” for all types of societal ills, including an unskilled workforce, a failing economy, and the reason for Canada falling behind in international competition, and cited that “Educators are being loaded with society’s failures.”...

Law grad occupying New Brunswick Legislature grounds for Clinic 554

by Tracy Glynn

September 20, 2020

Law grad occupying New Brunswick Legislature grounds for Clinic 554

Gender

Kathleen Adams, a recent graduate of the University of New Brunswick's law school, has been occupying the New Brunswick Legislature grounds since Saturday, Sept. 19 and plans to stay there until the hurricane and her birthday on Tuesday, Sept. 22 to save Clinic 554 in...

New Brunswick waits for new nuclear reactor announcement

by Susan O'Donnell

September 19, 2020

Environment

When are the new nuclear reactors coming to New Brunswick? It remains unknown when Premier-elect Blaine Higgs will announce his multimillion-dollar nuclear deal with the federal government. In a Telegraph Journal story on Sept. 9, Higgs claimed he had secured the deal to bring new...

The gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

by Canadian Union of Public Employees

September 17, 2020

The gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Canada

Workers have been deeply affected by measures to contain the spread of COVID-19. But the impact has been felt unevenly and in different ways than in recent recessions. In April 2020, more than 30 per cent of Canadian workers had been laid off or had their...

Exploring environmental destruction in Louisiana through poetry

by Josephine L. Savarese

September 16, 2020

Exploring environmental destruction in Louisiana through poetry

Arts & Culture

Environmentalists are outraged about the damage to wildlife, fisheries and coastal eco-systems caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil rig drilling the Macondo well that blew up on April 20, 2010. They worry about the further damage caused by Hurricane Laura in the summer of 2020. The Deepwater...

CUPE lauds decisive win for public health care in BC Supreme Court decision

by Canadian Union of Public Employees

September 14, 2020

*Opinion*

It's a development that will have repercussions across the country. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is applauding the BC Supreme Court’s decision to protect Canada’s universal public health care system in a ruling released today on the Cambie v. British Columbia case. The case was...