Allardville lockout: “We were like a big family … and now they’ve destroyed all that”
"I like my job," says Claudia Gionet, a CUPE 4193 member on the picket at the Red Pine landfill in ...
Month: February 2020
Fort Folly Chief Knockwood and Sackville Mayor Higham to fight cuts to hospital services
Leaders in the Memramcook-Tantramar region are organizing a committee to co-ordinate the fight against provincial plans to cut overnight emergency ...
St. Thomas University students and allies rally in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en
St. Thomas University students in Fredericton organized a rally on Feb. 27 to stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en, and demand ...
Wearing a hijab in Fredericton
Saturday Feb. 1 was world hijab day. It was also the first official display of my handmade headscarves at the ...
Saint John residents rally in support of the Wet’suwet’en, send Wolastoq Grand Council statement to MP
On Feb. 21, Leap4wards organized a rally in Saint John in support of the Wet'suwet'en, Indigenous rights and UNDRIP (the ...
Hiring a library service head without qualifications can have a bright side
The qualifications of New Brunswick Public Library Service (NBPLS)’s newly hired executive director, Kevin Cormier, have come under scrutiny since ...
CUPE national leaders in solidarity with locked-out workers in Allardville
The two top officials of Canada's largest union sent a solidarity message from Ottawa yesterday to 23 CUPE local 4193 ...
Five hundred people take to Halifax’s streets in support of the Wet’suwet’en
On February 23, Mi'kmaq water protectors and community members in K’jipuktuk/Halifax rallied at the Peace and Freedom Park on Hollis ...
Horizon CEO Karen McGrath and three stories of rural healthcare cuts
1. Rural healthcare cuts are implemented in Newfoundland and Labrador “I’ve always wanted to be a CEO of a hospital,” ...
CUPE blocks scabs at landfill, garbage service disrupted in northern New Brunswick
Garbage trucks were lined up outside a landfill south of Bathurst after a lockout of CUPE workers left nobody inside ...
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