The New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice and 48 other organizations, including the NB Media Co-op, are calling on the province of New Brunswick to increase social assistance rates. Read the letter in English here and French here.
The New Brunswick government seems proud of its $300 New Brunswick Workers Benefit handout idea, but in practice, ordinary people...
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Amidst a projected budget surplus of $41 million in New Brunswick, an anti-poverty organization is intensifying its calls for concrete...
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A New Brunswick anti-poverty organization says the provincial government's pre-election budget fails to address the cost-of-living crisis for people struggling...
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A Saint John woman whose son suffers from a rare form of epilepsy is speaking out about her ordeal as...
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