Doctor shortages, the Premier and the medical establishment’s gatekeepers
Who can forget last summer’s musical chairs, complete with schoolyard finger-pointing, Cabinet post switches, firings of old and hirings of ...
Tag: austerity
Blaine Higgs is holding us back
About a year ago, I wrote a piece for the NB Media Co-op in which I lamented the PC government’s ...
Liz Truss and neoliberalism’s blurted confession
For five decades, neoliberalism’s ascent in economics and social planning has been relentless. By neoliberalism, I mean the idea that ...
Nurses union president Paula Doucet: Union solidarity is of the utmost importance
Months after turning down two tentative agreements, and weeks after 92 per cent overall gave their union a mandate to ...
Steve Drost: Higgs’ back-to-work order is “a tool to threaten workers”
After years of fruitless negotiations and months after CUPE's 100-day ultimatum to Premier Higgs, CUPE New Brunswick members went on ...
CUPE NB: Province-wide job action is the only way left for us to be heard
CUPE New Brunswick members are ready to strike. We don't want to be in this position, but here we are. ...
More than 8,000 CUPE members in New Brunswick deadlocked with Higgs’ austerity government
More than 8,000 members of five CUPE locals in New Brunswick are now deadlocked in contract negotiations with the Higgs ...
Pandemic calls for new thinking, as Higgs’s address calls for sticking to course
Fredericton – The Common Front for Social Justice New Brunswick is pushing the Higgs government to rethink its priorities for ...
Pandemic inequality: Premier Higgs attempts to squeeze money from unionized front-line public sector workers while billionaire wealth rises
During the pandemic, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is trying to squeeze income from front-line public sector workers while at ...
The left should watch New Brunswick’s election closely
Key battles for socialists in Canada are being fought in the province, many of them on the ballot in some ...
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