Seafood giant Connors Bros. files for creditor protection | CBC News
The Blacks Harbour company employs about 800 people at peak season and up to half that number at other times, village Mayor Terry James said.
Construction industry brainstorms on how to adapt to climate change
On the agenda this year, a conversation about climate change, adaptation, and community readiness.
Filmmaker exposes corporate capture in forestry in N.B.
Thériault’s impression that all was fine in New Brunswick’s woods was
shattered when he met a 26-year-old man who had tried to commit
suicide. The man was $1 million in debt, a debt he had accrued from
working as a contractor, cutting wood for J.D. Irving, the largest
forestry player in the province. According to Thériault, the contractors
are in a perpetual debt cycle of taking out loans to buy new machines.
New Brunswick files ‘strange’ arguments in Alberta’s carbon tax challenge | CBC News
That prompted law professor Amir Attaran, who is representing an Alberta First Nation in the case, to contact CBC News to say the province’s complaint was unorthodox.
“All of us have had the same amount of time, and nobody, except for New Brunswick, has complained that they weren’t given time enough to think through and answer intelligently what the court needs to hear,” he said.
Attaran also criticized the substance of New Brunswick’s filing in Alberta, including what he called “a curious metaphor” that compares federal and provincial legal jurisdictions to the eating habits and weight classes of professional boxers.
Abortions rights advocates urge Liberals to turn politics into policy
He also noted the provincial regulation limiting funding to abortions performed in hospitals had also been there under the previous Liberal government of Brian Gallant.
Abortion-rights advocates are not the only ones anxious to see how the Liberals will handle the issue.
Campaign Life Coalition has said that it welcomes the news that 46 Conservative candidates identified as being against abortion were elected in October.