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Adam Huras

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The New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal's Ottawa-based parliamentary reporter and provincial editor. Leafs fan. [email protected]

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Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · 11h

Temporary foreign worker speaks out about what happened at New Brunswick plant facing massive fine and ban

Migrant workers allege ‘coercive debt scheme’ that starved workers for weeks while they still paid employer-controlled rent

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Temporary foreign worker speaks out about what happened at N.B. plant

Migrant workers allege ‘coercive debt scheme’ that starved workers for weeks while they still paid employer-controlled rent

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATED with a full interview from the company's president who says massive fine and ban a result of a 4-yr investigation by federal officials “playing police officer” into complaints of three temporary foreign workers in a plant that employs 350...

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N.B. plant fined $1M, banned 10 years from using temporary foreign workers

Bolero Shellfish Processing has been leveled the largest penalty ever issued over the mistreatment of temporary foreign workers

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · 2d

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New Brunswick company fined $1 million, banned 10 years from using temporary foreign workers

Bolero Shellfish Processing has been leveled the largest penalty ever issued over the mistreatment of TFWs.

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BREAKING: Company fined $1M, banned 10 years from using temporary foreign workers

Bolero Shellfish Processing has been leveled the largest penalty ever issued over the mistreatment of temporary foreign workers

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Carney’s softwood lumber tariff help doesn’t go far enough: Holt

The words are a rare criticism from a premier largely in lockstep with Ottawa’s response to trade tensions, but comes as one of #NB’s largest industries faces immense pressure
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Carney’s softwood lumber tariff help doesn’t go far enough: Holt

The words are a rare criticism of the feds, but come as one of New Brunswick’s largest industries now faces immense new pressure

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Tariffs force shutdown, layoffs at New Brunswick plant, while triggering Holt relief fund

Arbec Forest Products to shut down Miramichi plant for six weeks affecting 113 employees, permanently eliminating 29 jobs

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Tariffs force shutdown, layoffs at N.B. plant, trigger Holt relief fund

Arbec Forest Products to shut down Miramichi plant for six weeks affecting 113 employees, permanently eliminating 29 jobs

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Aug 6

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A longer read on New Brunswick's immigration plans

Story: New Brunswick fights for more immigrants, and has plans to get asylum seekers working tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

N.B. fights for more immigrants, plans to get asylum seekers working

The Holt government is lobbying for several changes to Ottawa's handling of immigrants, with talks for 2026 starting soon

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Aug 5

New Brunswick MP defends controversial U.S. Christian singer

'I may not agree with everything Sean Feucht says, but I’ll defend to the end his right to say it' says Miramichi–Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson

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New Brunswick MP defends controversial U.S. Christian singer

'I may not agree with everything Sean Feucht says, but I’ll defend to the end his right to say it' says Miramichi–Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 28

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The massive, multi-part nation-building project pitch from five eastern provinces to the Carney government won’t be submitted all at once, says Premier Susan Holt

An update on the Eastern Energy Partnership tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

East coast’s nation-building project won’t be submitted together: Holt

Instead, the components of the Eastern Energy Partnership will be revealed in pieces

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 28

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The Doug Ford rant that may lead to New Brunswick building Toronto skyscrapers tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

The Doug Ford rant that may lead to N.B. building Toronto skyscrapers

Ontario still imports American steel I-beams for its towers, but they could soon come from New Brunswick

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 25

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‘A lot of work’ still remains, LeBlanc says after Washington trade talks tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

‘A lot of work’ still remains, LeBlanc says after Washington trade talks

But that’s while the New Brunswick MP and Canada-U.S. trade minister says he still feels 'encouraged,' will return to Washington next week

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 24

Holt’s Liberal platform last October promised to “make contraception free.”
In a disclosure document to Elections NB, the Liberal party there was no cost to the promise.

“Opting into the federal pharmacare program will result in coverage of contraception for NBers,” it stated.

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Holt tries to sell Quebec on natural gas pipeline tj.news/new-brunswick/…#NBNB

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Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Feds won’t say if hundreds of millions of dollars in pharmacare funding is still available, while Premier Susan Holt suggests it might not be

And without those dollars, one of the Holt government’s election promises may be in jeopardy
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Federal pharmacare money may be gone, jeopardizing Holt promise

Feds won’t say if hundreds of millions of dollars in pharmacare funding is still available, while Holt suggests it might not be

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Federal budget will further ‘unshackle’ energy industry: Long tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Federal budget will further ‘unshackle’ energy industry: Long

The N.B. MP, serving as secretary of state responsible for the CRA and financial institutions, began budget consultations this week

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Holt on Aug. 1 deadline: ‘We’re not going to get a deal at all costs’ tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Holt on Aug. 1 deadline: ‘We’re not going to get a deal at all costs’

Premier is downplaying the importance of a looming Aug. 1 trade deal deadline with the United States

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Largest gap yet: Drop in New Brunswickers driving to Maine widens - again

Roughly 75,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from New Brunswick into Maine in June compared to the same month last year

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Largest gap yet: Drop in NBers driving to Maine widens - again

Roughly 75,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from New Brunswick into Maine in June compared to the same month last year

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Holt heads to Ontario cottage country with premiers to discuss Trump strategy

Primer on the meetings: tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Holt heads to cottage country with premiers to discuss Trump strategy

It's not the tariffs, it's the erratic threats and unending volatility that is hurting New Brunswick entrepreneurs, premier says

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Eight New Brunswick tourist attractions now have free or discounted admission
Short list of staples selected by Ottawa now offer free admission for children 17 and under, 50% for those 18 to 24

Feds say they’re paying to offset costs.
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Eight N.B. tourist attractions now have free or discounted admission

A short list of staples selected by Ottawa now offer free admission for children aged 17 and under and 50 per cent off for 18 to 24 yos

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Holt government chief of staff to go head to head with mayor in byelection tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Holt chief of staff to go head to head with mayor in byelection

The Liberals are set to acclaim Hannah Fulton Johnson while the Progressive Conservatives are fielding Kevin Russell

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 14

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New Brunswick MP picks food truck fight with Fredericton

Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson is calling the move 'ideological nonsense' and a 'political gesture dressed up as social justice'

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New Brunswick MP picks food truck fight with Fredericton

Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson is calling the move 'ideological nonsense' and a 'political gesture dressed up as social justice'

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 9

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New Brunswick SMR company touts ‘pivotal step’ to commercialization

A review that stretched on for more than three years amid struggles finds 'no fundamental barriers' to licensing proposed SMR technology

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New Brunswick SMR company touts ‘pivotal step’ to commercialization

A review that stretched on for more than three years amid struggles finds 'no fundamental barriers' to licensing proposed SMR technology

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Trump takes direct aim at New Brunswick company

A video posted to the U.S. president's Truth Social account suggests 'pillaging' from American waters, and dredges up a fight over fishing

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Trump takes direct aim at New Brunswick company

A video posted to the U.S. president's Truth Social account suggests 'pillaging' from American waters, dredges up a fight over fishing

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Former Moltex executive sues, revealing SMR company’s struggles tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB via @

Former Moltex executive sues, revealing SMR company’s struggles

Financial struggle saw Saint John-based SMR company cut staffing levels by more than a quarter, documents reveal

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 2

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The federal government says 1,794 people now work at the pay centre in Miramichi, with no plans to reduce that number even as the error-plagued Phoenix pay system begins the process of being replaced

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Nearly 1,800 work at N.B. pay centre with no plans for change: feds

That's even as the error-plagued Phoenix pay system begins the process of being replaced

Adam Huras @adamhuras.bsky.social · Jul 2

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It’s over: People's Alliance of New Brunswick deregisters as party, this time for good tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB via @

It’s over: People's Alliance deregisters as party, this time for good

It ends a decade and a half run that began as a protest movement and, at its height, saw the right-wing populist party elect three MLAs