Harper’s EI changes: serving a long tradition of flooding the low wage market
After the federal government introduced major changes and cuts to the Employment Insurance (EI) system last January, hundreds of protests ...
Tag: social assistance
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 ...
Is food insecurity just a neoliberal euphemism for hunger?
Fredericton is all abuzz about food. We hear things like “buy local," "buy what's in season," "buy organic”. We are ...
In support of taxes
I agree with the personal tax and the corporate tax increases that came into effect this July. They were necessary ...
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 ...
The roots of hunger: why food bank use is up in Atlantic Canada
Food Banks Canada released its latest statistics on national food bank usage this week. The data are assembled in a ...
Food bank use in New Brunswick continues to rise
Food Banks Canada has released their annual report, Hunger Counts, and New Brunswick has experienced once again an increase in ...
Invest in New Brunswick?
Our province is going through rough economic times. Since the 2008 economic crisis brought upon us by our friends in ...
Freelance no more: thoughts from a young worker on Labour Day
Next week, I will leave Halifax and head to Ontario to be employed in my first full-time, permanent job, ever. ...
Panhandling in Fredericton: the facts
Panhandling is a subsistence activity of last resort for thousands of homeless and vulnerably housed Canadians in cities from coast ...
© 2019 NB Media Co-op. All rights reserved.