Hundreds of students strike in Sackville to demand action on climate change
Hundreds of students in Sackville rallied in the academic quadrangle at Mount Allison University today before marching to town hall ...
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Marilyn Lerch launches fifth book of poems aiming to ‘tell the tale of our time’
Sackville poet Marilyn Lerch fought back tears Sunday, Feb. 10, as she addressed almost 100 people at the Owens Art ...
Mount Allison University crowd hears about slavery, racism and making Black Lives Matter
On Jan. 24, about 250 Mount Allison students, professors and university staff listened to author Robyn Maynard speak about how, ...
Bombardier Abroad: Canadian complicity in colonialism and dispossession
Many Canadians see Bombardier Inc. as a Quebec company that gave us fun outdoor machines such as Ski-Doo snowmobiles, Sea-Doo ...
Election platform: Expand social programs, restore public services and tax the rich
A group of New Brunswick unions and community organizations has issued a “progressive” platform for the provincial election scheduled for ...
Sackville professors warn about permanent drone warfare that murders civilians
Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter told a lunchtime audience in Sackville on Feb. 21, 2018 that in the last 17 ...
Indigenous historian urges scrapping investments in fossil fuels
The campaign to get Mount Allison University to pull its investments from big fossil fuel companies got a boost this ...
Mt. A students again ask university governing board to shed investments in big oil
Students activists are again urging Mount Allison’s highest governing body to join a growing worldwide movement and withdraw the university’s investments ...
NB Media Co-op’s Dallas McQuarrie wins Beth McLaughlin Environmental Journalism Award
The judges for the annual Beth McLaughlin Environmental Journalism Award have chosen Dallas McQuarrie of the New Brunswick Media Co-op ...
Sackville councillors take aim at glyphosate spraying, but stop short of calling for a ban
Sackville Town Council passed a unanimous resolution on Oct. 10, 2017 expressing its opposition to the “indiscriminate spraying” of the herbicide ...
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