Priority 5 continued…
- Align taxation with the idea that community-created land value; created by roads, transit, services, parks, and surrounding growth, is more valuable than private building effort.
Priority 5: Shift tax burden away from buildings and toward land value.
- Tax land value more heavily than buildings. (reduces penalty for adding housing, renovating, or building more intensively on a site.)
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Priority 4: Prioritize net zero, Passive House, and municipal environmental policy together.
- Make low-carbon construction a procurement rule
- Link building policy to climate adaptation
- Treat neighbourhoods, not individual buildings, as a planning unit
Priority 3: Truly open governance:
Open by default, not “available on request”
- every department has a publication duty.
- every exception category is defined.
- every withheld dataset gets a reason code.
- council can audit compliance.
Open data as infrastructure, not a side project. No PDFs!
Combination of both, in my understanding.
Priority 2: Limit short-term rentals and ensure vacant units are in use.
- primary-residence-only short-term rental rules in core areas.
- vacancy taxes with real enforcement.
- beneficial ownership disclosure.
- licensing and open data-sharing.
- escalating penalties for non-compliance.
Priority 1 continued:
- streamlined & preferential paths for co-op, land trust, and non-profit apartment construction.
- permanent affordability covenants, not short affordability periods that expire.
Priority 1: Build a much larger non-market and permanently affordable housing sector
- allocate funds to buy existing rental buildings before private equity or REIT buyers do.
- public land leased for non-profit/co-op housing instead of sold outright.
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Given the structural issues identified, probably should be the CEO…
Thanks to Bezos, shipping is just a race to the bottom. I expect the next step to be just lobbing packages out of the vehicle as they drive by.
Fredericton has a number of very nice dog friendly breweries. If ever on the other side.
We need to make it happen for 2028!
As a Frederictonian, I did a double take.
Was this made by McKinsey?
How about some savings from:
- Getting rid of Vestcor
- Pay physicians as employees, not corporations
- Removing property tax on GNB buildings (it’s just moving money around)
The decision to remove the sweet chicken option at Taco Boyz seems to have been a big mistake, and helping Bar Burrito into the #1 fast food taco and burrito option in Freddy.
I am extending beyond my boundaries, and don’t want to criticize outside of my scope, so this is just an uneducated opinion, but once it is just one word it seems too minimal to be used as a quote.
Thanks, I did and it helps with some info, but my concern is that how the original story is presented creates partisan anger. Even for the second story, why does the title put “stronger” in quotes? That leads people in thinking there are doubts that the competitive process was flawed or corrupt.
@poitrasj.bsky.social are you aware that eVisitNB is only renewing prescription amounts up to March 31st? There seems to be no reason to do this other then to cause chaos on April 1st as thousands of people scramble to get a refill on that day.
Sigh. This could have been a lot better:
- Holt Liberals didn’t “drop” them, they lost in a competitive bid process.
- Adding history on the original eVisitNB deal would add context.
- eVisitNB is an NB company but nothing was developed in NB, it’s just a front for Maple, partly a loblaws company
Technically it’s an NB company, but nothing was developed in NB, and it’s just Maple with a different name. Nothing wrong with that, but we should be clear on what it is.
My health insurance offers a service for $7/month similar to Maple. Worth checking options, although ideally no one would have to pay.
And lastly, eVisitNB is doing a big FU to the new providers by only filling prescriptions up until March 31st. This will create a huge backlog of people trying to get refills via new provider on April 1st. Seems pretty unethical in my opinion, as it puts people at risk.
Hopefully people know that they can pay (not that they should have to) to access Maple or similar eVisit services. Some health plans also also already include it (my does for $7/month).
eVisitNB has filled some gaps but also has some shady practices. And it always bothers me when it’s called a “made in NB business”. It’s just Maple, an Ontario company partly owned by Loblaw.
1. Cosman Advisory Inc. 2. Loblaw Companies Limited 3. The Clorox Company of Canada 4. PepsiCo Canada 5. Metro Inc. 6. McDonald’s 7. The Minute Maid Company Canada Inc. 8. Sobeys Capital Inc. 9. Kraft Heinz Canada ULC 10. Procter & Gamble, Inc. 11. Lassonde Industries Inc. 12. Restaurant Brands International (BURGER KING, Tim Hortons, Popeyes) 13. Nestlé Canada Inc. 14. Costco Wholesale Canada 15. Keurig Canada Inc. 16. Maple Leaf Foods Inc. 17. Recipe Unlimited 18. Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited
The “circular materials” organization is run purely to set policies and operations to favour large corporations. Just look at the board of CM:
So the City of Fredericton has complete handed over recycling to an industry-controlled organization framed as public-interest infrastructure. And doesn’t seem to even have any input into how “Circular Materials Atlantic” operates.
“A cruising speed of 190 mph”. Oi!
This may have been my dumbest Bluesky tweet of 2025. Thank you for the charity like.
If they can tighten up their defence, I’m hopeful MacDougall can work his magic and get them focused & motivated as the tournament goes on.
