Ontario premier wants Irving refinery to stop importing foreign oil It’s coming ‘from some people that don't like us,’ says the Ontario premier

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It’s coming ‘from some people that don't like us'

Ontario premier wants the Irving Oil refinery to stop importing foreign oil #NB

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Holt faces another opponent to highway tolls PEI Premier Rob Lantz wants sit down with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, arguing tolls in both provinces are interprovincial trade barrier

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Holt faces another opponent to highway tolls

Prince Edward Island Premier Rob Lantz wants sit down with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, arguing tolls in both provinces are an interprovincial trade barrier #NB #NS #PEI

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but no one on this list is from New Brunswick (except the guy who chairs it, Dominic LeBlanc). #NB

Mark Carney's new Advisory Committee on Canada-U.S. Economic Relations:

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New Brunswick inching toward two deals after Carney meeting: Holt

The premier went through a gauntlet of meetings in Ottawa on Monday, highlighted by talks with the prime minister

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U.S. trade talks ‘not at a place...with a lot of optimism’: Holt Assessment comes after meeting with Dominic LeBlanc, minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, and Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa

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U.S. trade talks ‘not at a place...with a lot of optimism’: Holt

Assessment comes after meeting with Dominic LeBlanc, minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, and then Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa

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‘When we meet, we make progress’: Carney on Holt meeting Meeting Carney and Holt in Ottawa is focusing on mining projects, building energy corridors, and new spending on health care infrastructure

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Holt meets with Carney

‘When we meet, we make progress’: Carney on Holt meeting

Meeting Carney and Holt in Ottawa is focusing on mining projects, building energy corridors, and new spending on health care infrastructure

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BREAKING: Inflation climbs in New Brunswick as gas prices make record jump Canadians paid 21.2 per cent more for gas last month, the largest month over month price increase for gasoline on record

BREAKING: Inflation climbs in New Brunswick as gas prices make record jump

Canadians paid 21.2% more for gas last month, the largest monthly price increase for gasoline on record

In #NB? Last week, they were up 51 cents since the beginning of the year.

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Holt government reignites pipeline talks With a new Quebec premier that’s pro development, with in an interest in shale gas, a nation-building project pitch returns to the forefront

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Holt government reignites pipeline talks

With a new Quebec premier who seems more pro development, a nation-building project pitch returns to the forefront

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Today...

Holt to meet with Carney in two-day Ottawa trip The premier will also make an appearance on a conference panel alongside Ontario Premier Doug Ford

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Holt to meet with Carney on two-day Ottawa trip

The premier will also make an appearance on a conference panel alongside Ontario Premier Doug Ford

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Wanted to point out in this recent interview with the Taxpayers Federation, Higgs blames our friends at @acadienouvelle.bsky.social for not being able to win any seats in the north.

And then goes for a lap on the CBC

At time mark 54:40:
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Blaine Higgs has a new job The former New Brunswick premier joins the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s board of directors and has a public appearance scheduled in May

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Blaine Higgs has a new job

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Federal Liberals vote in favour of new ‘Maritime Rail Corridor’ Pitch would create passenger rail service from Saint John to Halifax, eventually expanding to Fredericton, Sydney, N.S., and PEI

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Federal Liberals vote in favour of new ‘Maritime Rail Corridor’

Pitch would create passenger rail service from Saint John to Halifax, eventually expanding to Fredericton, Sydney, N.S., and PEI

That said, it's not binding on cabinet

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UPDATE: Carney unveils temporary cut to gas tax The federal Liberal government is suspending the federal fuel excise tax on gasoline and diesel beginning April 20 until Labour Day

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It’s a decision that immediately sparked debate in New Brunswick over whether the provincial government should make a similar move.

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N.B. MP helped get first floor crosser to join the Liberals It arguably opened the flood gates for several floor crossers - and now a majority government

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How a New Brunswick MP helped get a first floor crosser to join the Liberals

It arguably opened the flood gates for several floor crossers - and now a majority government

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BREAKING: Carney cuts gas prices by 10 cents a litre The federal Liberal government is suspending the federal fuel excise tax on gasoline and diesel beginning April 20 until Labour Day

BREAKING: Carney cuts gas prices by 10 cents a litre

The federal Liberal government is suspending the federal fuel excise tax on gasoline and diesel beginning April 20 until Labour Day, Sept. 7

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ANALYSIS: Higher gas prices bring windfall of revenue for Holt government That’s as the premier hopes the spike in prices will be short lived, while lamenting how global markets have erased her cut

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ANALYSIS: Higher gas prices bring windfall of revenue for Holt government

That’s as the premier hopes the spike in prices will be short lived, while lamenting how global markets have erased her cut

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Budget changes credit rating outlook to ‘negative’ But the province is still holding on to one of the best ratings in the country - at least for now

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Holt budget changes credit rating outlook to ‘negative’

But the province is still holding on to one of the best ratings in the country - at least for now

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How will 1,150 illegal guns be collected from NBers? With municipal forces across the province refusing to participate in the federal buyback program, it’s still largely unclear

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How will 1,150 illegal guns be collected from NBers?

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BREAKING: N.B. bleeds 4,700 full-time jobs, balanced out by part-time gains Unemployment stays flat, but full-time job growth now stagnant year over year

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New Brunswick bleeds 4,700 full-time jobs, balanced out by part-time gains

Unemployment stays flat, but full-time job growth now stagnant year over year

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Holt promises overhaul of lobbyist rules that blocked NHL ticket disclosure

‘It's not strong right now,’ premier says, pledging legislative changes next month

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Conservative Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson says he has “no intention whatsoever” of leaving the federal Conservatives.

Not going to lie, I checked in today on him.

I mean, if Gladu could cross… #NB

Holt pitches Belledune for home of Canada’s largest explosives factory Meetings in France last week showed ’we're serious and interested,” premier says

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Meetings in France last week showed ’we're serious and interested'

Holt pitches Belledune for home of Canada’s largest explosives factory

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‘Financial abuse’ of workers behind $1-million fine of N.B. fish plant New details revealed as processing plant continues to fight record fine and 10-year ban from TFW program

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‘Financial abuse’ of workers behind $1-million fine of New Brunswick fish plant

New details revealed as processing plant fights record fine and 10-year ban from temporary foreign worker program

A first full look into what happened

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Holt's free tickets to two NHL games not publicly disclosed N.B.'s integrity commissioner says the tickets don’t count as gifts and the lobbyist registry isn’t sophisticated enough to disclose it

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Holt’s free tickets to two NHL games (and a Raptors game): Why you don’t know about them

New Brunswick’s integrity commissioner says the tickets don’t count as gifts and the lobbyist registry isn’t sophisticated enough to disclose it

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Poor planning the reason deficit spending has ballooned: researcher Leading researcher on generational equity weighs in on Holt spending, while a few new assessment detail how bad the situation really is

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The real reason why deficit spending has ballooned

A leading researcher on generational equity weighs in on Holt government spending, while a few new other assessment detail how bad the situation really is

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N.B. looking at legislation to stop decline in gambling revenues N.B. Lotteries and Gaming Corporation gross revenues came in $5.7 million less than expected last year, $8 million lower than two years ago

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New Brunswick looking at legislation to stop decline in gambling revenues

New Brunswick Lotteries and Gaming Corporation gross revenues came in $5.7 million less than expected last year, $8 million lower than two years ago

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The package from New Brunswick that’s about to orbit the moon As NASA sends four astronauts around the moon, seeds picked from Canada’s only national seed bank in Fredericton are along for the ride

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The package from New Brunswick that’s about to orbit the moon

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New Brunswick federal riding may be renamed - again Carney government bill tacks on the name change in latest saga of a riding that’s flipped back and forth for over two decades

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A New Brunswick federal riding may be renamed - again

Carney government bill tacks on the name change in latest saga of a riding that’s flipped back and forth for over two decades

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The book Donald Savoie didn’t know he would write The biography of Louis J. Robichaud, the father of equal opportunity, as told by a friend

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The book Donald Savoie didn’t think he would write

The biography of Louis J. Robichaud, the father of equal opportunity, as told by a friend

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