New Brunswick government rules out separate wage for servers
The provincial government has decided not to pursue a separate minimum wage for tip-earning workers. Martine Coulombe, minister of Post Secondary Education, Training and Labour, announced the decision last Thursday, reminding people minimum wage is set to rise to $10 an hour on April 1. Minimum wage is $9.50 per hour now. A press release [...]
Despite calls for food security and eating local, farmers, back-to-the-landers face huge obstacles in New Brunswick Molly, a dog resembling a small German shepherd with a curly tail, slips out the bottom of the green canvas tent. I watch her with one eye through the mesh door of my tent as she trots around a [...]
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At 25, Susan Ehrhardt never expected to be where she is: Living with her mother in Moncton, on social assistance and about to begin her sixth and final round of chemotherapy. Ehrhardt was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the summer. It’s a type of cancer that strikes young adults and hers has hit stage 2A. [...]
Continue reading …With the Penn State football scandal hanging over the world of elite sports, many are decrying the prominence put on athletics. At numerous institutions sport is raised high above the level playing field most mortals must be content with. Athletes are given special privileges on campuses and so, it seems, are coaches. This, however, is [...]
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Labour Minister Lisa Raitt is urging Acadian Lines and its workers to come together to reach an agreement. Mechanics, maintenance workers, drivers and customer service representatives in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island gave their 72-hour notice to strike today. Ashley Kelahear, press secretary to the minister, said Raitt is disappointed the two sides haven’t been [...]
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The occupiers in front of City Hall in Fredericton have been asked to move by Nov. 25 for the city’s Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. Dana Hartt, a 32 year-old who has been with the movement since mid-October, was the only occupier on site when Fredericton mayor Brad Woodside personally delivered the letter today at noon.Hart [...]
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Makedonia Koutsoumpeli’s story in last week’s edition of The Aquinian is a compelling account of how ordinary Greeks are reacting to their devastating economic crisis – read it if you haven’t. But Koutsoumpeli also examined a crucial question: Could what’s happening in Greece happen here in New Brunswick? The short answer is no, since [...]
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David Adams Richards says some of life’s greatest lessons can be found in the woods. Richards is an author, screenwriter, poet and St. Thomas University’s artist in residence. The Newcastle native spoke with STU’s third year radio class last week about his newest book Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Way of Life, [...]
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A crowd of protesters held signs, chanting, “No more one per cent, no more shit,” outside of city hall Saturday. The protests were part of the Global Day of Action on Oct. 15 that stemmed from the Occupy Wall Street movement. About 65 people attended the city hall march, while the crowd peaked at 100 [...]
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When she returned to her homeland this summer, Makedonia Koutsoumpeli saw firsthand what happens when middle-class expectations shatter overnight, and outlines why New Brunswick should see itself in the Greek crisis. Her face is pushed against the shield of a burly armed officer. A chain of riot police officers keeps the crowd away from Parliament [...]
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Forty-three-year-old journalist and author Jacques Poitras recently launched his newest book, The Imaginary Line. In it, Poitras discusses the human side of the New Brunswick-Maine border. “The New Brunswick-Maine border has had some academic work done on it but there hasn’t been any journalistic work done on it,” Poitras said in an interview following his book [...]
Continue reading …In Battlestar Galactica, “frak” is an all-purpose swear word, as in “frak those frakking motherfrakkers.” In New Brunswick politics, “fracking” is also a four-letter word, albeit one that could have more explosive consequences for Premier David Alward’s government. Fracking, for those who aren’t familiar with the term, is short for hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking and [...]
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