NB Update: Mining strategy a ‘sales pitch’ to industry | New edition of Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey dictionary [video]

This edition of the NB Update examines the provincial government’s mining strategy and a newly published Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey dictionary.

New Brunswick’s minerals strategy document was launched on Monday at a mining industry conference in Toronto.

The Conservation Council of New Brunswick, which was sidelined by the Department of Natural Resources in the lead-up to its release, has called it a “sales pitch to mining companies.”

The NB Media Co-op spoke to Beverly Gingras, executive director of the Conservation Council, for a critical perspective. 

Meanwhile, Goose Lane Editions has published the second edition of Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey Latuwewakon, a two-volume work documenting a critically endangered Indigenous language.

The NB Media Co-op spoke to one of the co-authors, Robert M. Leavitt, about the decades of work behind this newly enlarged dictionary.

This program is a collaboration between the NB Media Co-op and CHCO TV.

This reporting has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada, via the Local Journalism Initiative.