![‘Low-income tenants can’t keep their lights on,’ activists tell NB Power [video]](https://nbmediacoop.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ACORNApr12025-350x250.jpg)
‘Low-income tenants can’t keep their lights on,’ activists tell NB Power [video]
Anti-poverty campaigners from NB ACORN are calling for a moratorium on NB Power rate hikes and a ban on winter ...
Tag: NB ACORN
Housing Minister David Hickey says government trying to balance tenants’ rights with concerns of developers and landlords
New Brunswick’s Housing Minister says one of his main jobs in the coming year will be to make sure tenants ...
![Feds impose new limits on ‘predatory lenders’ following grassroots campaign [video]](https://nbmediacoop.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EasyFinancialJan92025-2-350x250.jpg)
Feds impose new limits on ‘predatory lenders’ following grassroots campaign [video]
So-called “alternative lenders” face new limits on how much interest they can charge borrowers following changes to the Criminal Code ...
![NB Update: Rent cap will fail unless tied to unit, says prof | Labour perspective on Canada Post workers’ strike [video]](https://nbmediacoop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-27-at-16.04.27-350x250.jpg)
NB Update: Rent cap will fail unless tied to unit, says prof | Labour perspective on Canada Post workers’ strike [video]
In this edition of the NB Update, we hear from activists who fought for the New Brunswick government to implement ...
Tenants’ rights groups welcome new rent control legislation, but call for more protections [video]
The provincial government has introduced legislation that would limit rent increases to three per cent annually, fulfilling a major campaign ...
![End ‘legislated poverty,’ activists tell parties before election day [video]](https://nbmediacoop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/groupshot463716944_10169596848635594_3603822864266864691_n-350x250.jpg)
End ‘legislated poverty,’ activists tell parties before election day [video]
Just days before the provincial election, anti-poverty activists held a rally in Fredericton demanding an end to “legislated poverty,” and ...
End ‘energy poverty,’ activists tell candidates ahead of election [video]
Activists called for the elimination of "energy poverty" on Friday, pledging to make the cost of electricity a ballot box ...
![Anti-poverty activists decry high rent, low welfare, as MLAs return to capital [video]](https://nbmediacoop.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Oct17CommonFront-1-350x250.jpg)
Anti-poverty activists decry high rent, low welfare, as MLAs return to capital [video]
Anti-poverty activists rallied outside the New Brunswick legislature Tuesday as MLAs gathered for a new legislative session. Social justice groups ...
Tenants have little to celebrate on New Brunswick Day
New Brunswick Day is celebrated the first Monday of August every year. It is a celebration of the history, culture ...
Advocates say rent cap the ‘only way’ to resolve crisis after Housing Minister nixes policy [video]
The provincial government’s housing strategy has been met with mixed reviews from advocates who say it doesn’t go far enough ...
© 2019 NB Media Co-op. All rights reserved.