COMMENTARY: Overcrowded prisons, or over-imprisoned populations?
In December 2021, officials in the New Brunswick government announced the planned construction of a new jail. The jail’s price ...
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COMMENTARY: Mining executives get millions in compensation, public left holding the bag
Back in August, Trevali Mining Corporation, owner of the Caribou mine near Bathurst, filed for bankruptcy under the Canadian Companies’ ...
COMMENTARY: Canadian universities’ disability policies are inadequate
In universities across Canada, accessibility provisions are offered only intermittently, leaving the nation’s roughly 200,000 disabled post-secondary students in a ...
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FIRST PERSON: Bureaucratic violence and the Residential Tenancies Tribunal
Jill Green is a Conservative MLA and the current Minister of Service New Brunswick. In late November, Green introduced a ...
COMMENTARY: The myth of the free market is causing New Brunswick’s housing crisis
New Brunswick’s rent cap is set to end on December 31. The rent cap—which limited rent increases to 3.8 percent ...
COMMENTARY: UNB’s commitment to nuclear contradicts alleged support for Truth and Reconciliation
By researching nuclear technologies, accepting funding from private industry and the state, and publicly advocating in favour of nuclear expansion, ...
Decades of neoliberal governance have left disabled New Brunswickers in poverty and without social assistance
The Higgs government continues to sit atop hefty budget surpluses that have failed to reach those in need, including women, ...
Local foragers hope to restore New Brunswick’s harmed forests, starting with mycorrhiza
With a bug net in hand, Anthony Brooks tells a crowd of eager families and amateur foragers knowledge passed down ...
Analysis: NB’s English-language newspapers regularly favour industry, pro-nuclear perspectives on small modular reactors
In 1993, sociologist Michael Clow, accompanied by editor Susan Machum, published a book-length study analyzing Canadian newspapers’ coverage of nuclear ...
Axing EI-Connect threatens ability of students to graduate university, enter workforce
In an interview undertaken by CBC in March 2020, Premier Blaine Higgs lambasted the New Brunswick population’s reliance on federally ...
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