Rent hikes and stagnant incomes leave New Brunswickers without housing this COVID winter
Imagine the shock if we were to wake to an overnight 50 per cent increase in fuel prices, making it ...
Tag: COVID-19
Understanding the legacy of Joe Blades in the COVID-19 era
Editor's note: Joe Blades was a Fredericton-based poet, publisher and labour activist who passed away on April 22, 2020. Joe ...
“It affects us all one way or another”: Systemic racism in education panel
A panel titled “How can education systems in Atlantic Canada best respond to calls to combat systemic racism and to ...
New Brunswick faces severe nursing shortage during COVID-19
New Brunswick is facing a severe nursing shortage over the next five years. These are part of the findings of ...
Study seeks to interview Temporary Foreign Workers in the Maritimes during COVID
A new partnership between researchers based at Dalhousie University, St. Thomas University and Cooper Institute is seeking to interview Temporary ...
COVID-19’s impact on Indigenous, Black and racialized communities
Health care authorities around the world are carefully tracking data about the spread of COVID-19, especially the location of outbreaks, the ...
Is Blaine Higgs applying the “shock doctrine” in New Brunswick?
In her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Canadian author Naomi Klein describes how right-wing governments use ...
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 ...
What can the lockdown teach us about reducing carbon emissions?
Thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic, 2020 is almost certain to be the first year the world has managed to ...
Sisson Mine update: milking the pandemic in New Brunswick
It seems that mineral exploration companies sense the panic in the Higgs government and its desire to appear to be ...
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