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Blaine Higgs,

Premier Blaine Higgs says New Brunswick will 'reinvent' itself in wake of pandemic

Blaine Higgs says 2020 taught him a lot about the importance of perseverance.
Coronavirus in Canada
News, Politics | December 30th 2020
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs,

New Brunswickers to head to polls in snap election despite pandemic

New Brunswickers will be heading to the polls Sept. 14 after Premier Blaine Higgs on Monday, August 17, 2020, said the province needed stability to face the coming challenges and triggered the first election in Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
News, Politics | August 18th 2020
People walk to honour Rodney Levi in Red Bank, New Brunswick on Friday, June 19, 2020. File photo by The Canadian Press/Stephen MacGillivray

Chiefs call for police reforms and inquiry but Premier Higgs says problem's bigger than N.B.

Indigenous leaders in New Brunswick say they are losing faith in Premier Blaine Higgs and his provincial government after a second meeting failed to produce an agreement for an inquiry into systemic racism and two recent police shootings.
News, Politics | July 9th 2020
Travellers, Nova Scotia, Amherst,

Nova Scotia latest province to declare state of emergency

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil has declared a provincial state of emergency because he says some people are blatantly ignoring requirements for social distancing and self-isolation during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Coronavirus in Canada
News, Politics | March 23rd 2020
Smallmouth Bass,

Conservation groups want to protect salmon by wiping out invasive smallmouth bass

A coalition of conservation groups wants the federal government to agree to a plan to wipe out a population of smallmouth bass from a New Brunswick lake in order to protect salmon in the revered Miramichi River.
State Of The Animal
News, Politics | October 30th 2019
Green Party MP, Jenica Atwin, Fredericton,

New federal Greens MP looks to learn from Elizabeth May, not replace her

As a teenager, the Green party's newest member of Parliament declared her desire to become prime minister, but Jenica Atwin says she's not gunning for the leadership of her party — at least not yet.
Election 2019
News, Politics
Emergency response officers, Moncton, N.B.,

List grows of Mounties suing attorney general over 2014 Moncton shootings

More than a dozen RCMP officers who responded to shootings in Moncton, N.B., that claimed the lives of three of their colleagues in 2014 are now looking to sue the attorney general of Canada for negligence.
News, Politics | October 17th 2019
Matthew Vincent Raymond,

Jury finds Matthew Raymond, accused in Fredericton killings, unfit to stand trial

A jury in Fredericton has found that Matthew Raymond is currently unfit to stand trial on four counts of first-degree murder.
News, Politics | October 7th 2019
Matthew Vincent Raymond,

Is Matthew Raymond fit to stand trial? Jury to decide.

The hearing to determine if Matthew Raymond is fit to stand trial on four counts of first-degree murder will go to the jury on Friday, October 4, 2019.
News, Politics | October 4th 2019
Matthew Vincent Raymond,

Jury selection almost complete for fitness hearing in Fredericton murder case

Jury selection will continue into a third day on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, in the hearing to determine if a Fredericton man is fit to stand trial on four counts of first-degree murder.
News, Politics | October 2nd 2019
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