Fredericton outside workers ratify agreement
Good news came quickly for Fredericton outside workers represented by CUPE Local 508 after a bitterly cold weekend on the ...
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New Brunswick’s corporate bully / victim game
Remember the game where kids secretly taped a "kick-me" sign onto the back of their unsuspecting target. This game was ...
Moving forward on rural community food security in New Brunswick
In New Brunswick, we are self-sufficient in a handful of products: seafood, blueberries, potatoes, fish, and sometimes strawberries. Yet overall, ...
The Sackville connection: Building and sustaining a healthy rural New Brunswick
A Net-Zero home produces as much power as it consumes. A Passive Home is super-insulated and uses less power but does ...
Rural social justice motivates Bonavista’s mayor
“I remember the silence at the kitchen table” said John Norman, the mayor of Bonavista, Newfoundland, describing the cod fishery ...
Rural innovation: using technology to keep schools in communities
Many rural New Brunswick communities are searching for ways to avoid school closures and long bus rides for students to ...
Celebrating Indigenous teachings at UNB with David and Imelda Perley
David and Imelda Perley have demonstrated that while working within a colonial educational institution, Indigenous leaders can create a vision ...
Nursing home workers occupy Social Development office to demand a return to negotiations
May Day brought a new look to the Department of Social Development office in Fredericton as nursing home workers staged ...
Mourning for workers who died on the job in New Brunswick
Family, friends, co-workers, union members and politicians came together on Sunday, April 28 at ceremonies across New Brunswick for the ...
Wolastoq: a beautiful and bountiful teacher
When David Perley, Director of the UNB Mi'kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, speaks about Wolastoq (“beautiful and bountiful river”) he is able to ...
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