A key function of the Legislative Assembly is to exercise control over government action, according to the Legislative Assembly’s website. While the idea of an assembly of elected representative exercising control over the actions of a premier and his or her cabinet may sound revolutionary, it is how our system of parliamentary democracy is actually supposed to work, and it […]
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Fredericton – David Coon, MLA for Fredericton South and leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick is reminding the government on International Alzheimer’s Day of the urget need for a provincial dementia strategy. In January the Council on Aging released a comprehensive set of recommendations: We are all in this together, designed to better the experience of aging in […]
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Author by : TOM BATEMAN Photo by : TOM BATEMAN From left, Tory MLA For Moncton Southwest Sherry Wilson, People’s Alliance leader Kris Austin, NDP leader Jennifer McKenzie, New Brunswick Senior Citizens Federation president Léonard LeBlanc, Green Party candidate in Gagetown-Petitcodiac Marilyn Merritt-Gray, Jean-Luc Bélanger of the Association acadienne et francophone des aînées et aînés du Nouveau-Brunswick and New Brunswick […]
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The panel debates what, and maybe who, is to blame for the pause and possible death of the Energy East pipeline.
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