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The New Brunswick government has approved construction of a 500 MW gas/diesel plant near Centre Village subject to 45 conditions that require the U.S. company PROENERGY to monitor air and water…

Only hours before European scientists said August was tied for the world’s hottest month on record, Megan Mitton was positioning herself as the only real alternative to Premier Susan Holt’s…

Ottawa’s multibillion dollar increase in military spending has been met with practically no pushback from mainstream media, even as the federal government shifts funding from public services to American war contractors under an increasingly belligerent Trump administration. That was one of the takeaways from a recent talk by Alex Cosh, managing editor of The Maple, during the NB Media Co-op’s 17th annual keynote address, titled Silencing Dissent on the Military-Industrial Complex.

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