Premier Blaine Higgs is pushing a private-sector company, Repsol, to convert its Saint John LNG (liquefied natural gas) import terminal into an export terminal for energy security, economic development and energy transition.  We are told that shipping liquified methane gas to Europe can address energy...

Reports that the Irvings had given up their New Brunswick newspaper empire have suddenly proven premature with the appointment of Jamie Irving as Executive Chair of the Postmedia Board of Directors. The American-owned Postmedia chain that dominates the Canadian (and now the New Brunswick) newspaper industry announced recently...

As a regional biologist in Nova Scotia, starting in 1972, I was involved with several eradication programs that used a standard rotenone-based toxicant of the time. The targets for use were ponds with goldfish, or lakes that had formerly hosted a healthy trout population, but...

The Higgs government continues to sit atop hefty budget surpluses that have failed to reach those in need, including women, rural communities, Francophones, racialized peoples, and disabled New Brunswickers. For Kelsi Evans, a recent graduate from the University of New Brunswick, current standards in disability...

For the past two years, a consortium of stakeholders in the salmon fishery has proposed to poison Miramichi Lake and 15 km of the Southwest Miramichi River to eradicate the invasive smallmouth bass population. The consortium includes the Atlantic Salmon Federation, the Miramichi Salmon Conservation...

Editor’s note: The first part of this feature (“SMRs riddled with high costs, among other ‘unresolved problems”) was published by the NB Media Co-op on July 31, 2022. This article previously appeared on the website of Peace Magazine on July 1, 2022. Timelines The other promise...

Turning a creative passion into a career was not something that Carr Sappier thought was an option when they were younger, but that creative passion has sparked the beginning of positive impact through film for Indigenous peoples across Canada. Growing up in Neqotkuk (Tobique) First...

New Brunswick disabled author, playwright and poet J. (Julie) Ivanel Johnson has received a $20,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to professionally workshop her musical, Rough Notes. Rough Notes, the musical, is set in the last six months of 1939, partly in Perth...