Reducing poverty is fashionable where equality is unimaginable
Fredericton - An anti-poverty group says the New Brunswick Alward government's poverty reduction plan will not alleviate poverty. The government ...
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Austerity chokes Canada’s down-and-out as Harper, Flaherty look the other way
The exceedingly aggressive austerity cuts carried out by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the past ...
When drones guard the pipeline
Militarizing fossil fuels in the east Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an ...
Business journalists go on the attack, demonize Atlantic seasonal workers
About 100 people rallied against Harper's cuts to the EI program over the noon hour in ...
Common Front for Social Justice: Changes to social assistance step in right direction but not enough
Moncton - The new direction given by Honorable Madeleine Dubé to the social assistance program in this province is a ...
Let’s get really frank about philanthropy and homelessness
For weeks, the buzz had been building in the capital city about Frank McKenna coming to town to speak at ...
What if natives stop subsidizing Canada?
Montreal - There is a prevailing myth that Canada's more than 600 First Nations and native communities live off of ...
NB MPs need to support the unemployed
An Open Letter to Conservative MPs in NB, Mike Allen, Keith Ashfield, Bernard Valcourt, Rob Moore, Tilley O’Neill-Gordon, Robert Goguen, ...
Pay Equity — It Starts With You!
This is an article that should not have to be written, about a fund-raising campaign that should not have to ...
Artist challenges perceptions of rats
Fredericton-based artist Janice Wright Cheney pursues discomfort, delighting in creatures usually considered repulsive, including maggots, beetles, and fleas. In her ...
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