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 ...
Tag: COVID-19
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 ...
New Brunswick Union urges government to protect blood and plasma supply
For several years, the New Brunswick Union (NBU/NUPGE) has been sounding the alarm on the dangers of allowing for-profit plasma ...
Majority of New Brunswick nursing home workers ratify new agreement
On Monday, July 6, the majority of the NB Council of Nursing Home Union (NBCNHU) members approved the tentative agreement ...
Public service cuts and unfair tax regimes will not solve New Brunswick’s economic challenges
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown up major public policy challenges that political classes in New Brunswick will have to deal ...
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