Why is the Higgs government suddenly interested in poverty?
Bruce Fitch, Minister of Social Development, recently announced significant changes for social assistance recipients in New Brunswick. The Minister estimates ...
Tag: poverty
Johanne Petitpas, a pioneer of meaningful social change
On July 31st, 2021, an inspiring 62-year-old woman named Johanne Petitpas died suddenly from a massive heart attack. Grief was ...
Watch the NB debrief here
Watch on YouTube Statement of Solidarity Episode 1: Why the NB debrief? NB debrief host Tobin Haley talks to ...
No immediate wage clawback reform; working poor left in lurch
The Common Front for Social Justice is criticizing the slow pace of the Higgs government’s approach to the province’s social ...
Time for New Brunswick to end policies that impoverish people with disabilities
It has been over a year since the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) was introduced to support many Canadians across ...
NB Media Co-op and CHCO-TV launch political talk show, the NB debrief
Two independent media outlets in New Brunswick – the NB Media Co-op and CHCO-TV – have come together to bring ...
New Brunswick fails to provide safe housing for our most vulnerable populations
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was facing what so many people are facing now: the fear and stress of sliding ...
NB Power is in debt and the world is in a climate crisis, and we, the consumer, should not pay more
Thirteen years ago, on a cold March day in 2008, Bertrand Durelle found his 53-year-old brother unconscious, hypothermic and frostbitten ...
Salute to Jean-Claude Basque, Common Front organizer and activist for over twenty years
On behalf of the entire membership of the Common Front for Social Justice as well as the many workers and ...
Growing support to end New Brunswick’s punitive wage clawback for social assistance recipients
Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by ...
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