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NB Update: Remedies for racism in the health care system, a systemic issue across Canada
This edition of the NB Update looks at an issue that affects people across the country: racism in the health care system. New Brunswick’s commissioner on systemic racism, Dr. Manju Varma, wrote in her final report in 2022 that her office “was inundated with complaints regarding…
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Zines from Gaza rewire my associations with my own memories
This piece is a companion to the article: “I want people to understand”: Writers in Gaza publish zines through volunteer-led Coastal Lines Press. I read Coastal Lines Press zines Beneath Gaza’s Stars by Heba Ali and Midnight Thoughts in Gaza by Mohammed Al-Bardawili with a…
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‘We were there, you can’t do more than that’: Documentary ‘Edward Said: Between Worlds’ premieres at TIFF 2026
Edward Said was always a familiar name at my dinner table. Since I was a child, I walked past our oak bookshelf that carried the spine of his magnum opus Orientalism, intrigued by its cover image of a thick blue snake coiled around the torso of a young boy. My father would…
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Bill to ban recruitment fees for migrant workers, who often pay thousands for temporary jobs
Migrant workers often pay thousands of dollars in recruitment fees to secure a temporary job in New Brunswick, a process that leaves many of them trapped in debt and poverty, according to migrant justice advocates. On Tuesday, the provincial government introduced legislation…
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‘I want people to understand’: Writers in Gaza publish zines through volunteer-led Coastal Lines Press
Audio excerpts of interview with Lama Alharazin, including Alharazin reciting her poem “Those who are still here” from her zine “Rain Was Once A Promise.” “During the war, I actually couldn’t find sense of the chaos around me. I was always looking for meaning in every…
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Halifax reporters describe forcible removal from $10-billion data centre announcement
About 120 people crowded into a university lecture hall in Halifax on Friday to hear the story of how two veteran reporters were evicted from a news conference announcing the development of a $10-billion data centre in Point Tupper, Cape Breton. “I have had experiences in a lot…
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Indigenous-led energy: Can nuclear power meet the Seven Generations principle?
New Brunswick faces critical choices about its energy future, with consequences that will extend beyond today’s needs and shape the world future generations inherit. These choices were part of the broader conversation at the fifth annual Atlantic Indigenous-Led Energy Symposium…
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The safest gas is the gas that remains underground
Dear Premier Susan Holt, As a resident of New Brunswick who enjoys its many little treasures, I am deeply concerned that your government is considering the resumption of natural gas development, specifically fracking of shale gas. Thirteen years ago, New Brunswickers organised…
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‘Responding to life’: 75 writers featured at poetry weekend
Five poets brought their own unique voices to the icehouse poetry event at the University of New Brunswick on Friday, October 2. The 2026 icehouse poets Sue Sinclair, Loch Baillie, Tiana Reid, Michael Trussler, and visiting poet Kirby, hosted by Ross Leckie came together for the…
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Montreal defence firm sues N.B. port for allegedly scuttling $3B deal
A Montreal firm that wants to build a military industrial complex in northern New Brunswick — and kickstart two mines to supply it — is suing the Port of Belledune and its CEO. Blackpoint Industries Inc. and one of its Montreal executives, Mario di Palma, filed a lawsuit against…
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Photo exhibit shows dangers faced by journalists, daily struggle to survive in Gaza Strip [video]
Photos illustrating the struggle to survive in the Gaza Strip were on display on a downtown Moncton street corner on Wednesday, as the NB Media Co-op and Citizens for Peace–Greater Moncton hosted a pop-up exhibit of photojournalism by Rizek Abdel Jawad. The Gaza City-based…
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Photos: Palestinian farmers harvest olives in Gaza amid destruction
This is the latest dispatch from Rizek Abdel Jawad, a photojournalist based in Gaza City who frequently contributes to the NB Media Co-op. Palestinian farmers harvest olives in a field in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on the eve of the first anniversary…
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Acadian youth literacy scores require action
The Modernization of the French-language Policy on Language and Cultural Planning in Education (Politique d’aménagement linguistique et culturel, PALC in French) has sparked hope and garnered praise. The province of New Brunswick is updating its “vision” for the success of the…
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Floating nuclear power in northern New Brunswick: a reality check
Recently a proposal to build a floating nuclear power plant with two small reactors at the Port of Belledune made the news. Is the proposed project more than just another nuclear establishment pitch for public funding? Will New Brunswick be sucked into a third SMR vortex…
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Activists call for province to reverse energy, resource projects as MLAs return to Legislature
Activists rallied outside the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday calling on the province to reverse course on several controversial projects, including a fossil-fuel burning power plant, a hyperscale data centre, and a massive open-pit mine. They also expressed opposition to a…
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Être de calibre en éducation
La modernisation de la PALC (Politique d’aménagement linguistique et culturel) réalisée récemment a soulevé des espoirs et des commentaires élogieux. On actualise la « vision » de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick pour la réussite du système d’éducation en français et pour la…
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Journalist links data centre push to gas plants and renewed interest in fracking
Journalist and activist Nick Tsergas says Canadian governments see the building of hyperscale, AI data centres as key to the development of the natural gas industry. “That’s what it means in Alberta where Premier Danielle Smith has said the whole point of the AI data centre…
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Photojournalism from the Gaza Strip: pop-up exhibit in Moncton
Over the past three years, Palestinian photojournalist Rizek Abdel Jawad has been documenting life in the shadow of the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed the lives of more than 74,000 people, almost one third of them children. On paper, a ceasefire has been…
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The National Post and Postmedia must be held accountable for threats against NDP leader
In late September, the National Post published an opinion piece penned by Yoni Goldstein titled “Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis.” In the article, Goldstein labeled Lewis a rodef, a term from traditional Jewish law referring to a person having the active intent to…
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Company-commissioned report shows Sisson mine is more a curse than a blessing
Depending on your point of view, New Brunswick was blessed or cursed when Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Sisson mine project as a “nation building project” on November 13, 2025. The proposed Sisson open-pit tungsten and molybdenum mine in the Upper Nashwaak Watershed…