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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 11h

Seafood processing company fined $1M, banned from hiring temporary foreign workers for 10 years

End closed permits to stop abuse, says Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre
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Seafood processing company fined $1M, banned from hiring temporary foreign workers for 10 years

The feds have imposed a historic $1 million fine against a New Brunswick seafood company and banned it from hiring

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 1d

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Postal workers picket in Sackville as rural post offices face uncertain future

Alyssa Greene says she’s worried about the future of the post offices in Sackville and Dorchester. Greene, who is a

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 2d

An expo titled, “80 Years of the Nuclear Age: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki” opened Oct. 3 at Fredericton Public Library and runs until Oct. 31.

To inaugurate the expo, a national expert on the nuclear industry, M.V. Ramana gave a public lecture.
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Poster exhibit remembers the two Japanese cities devastated by nuclear weapons

An expo titled “80 Years of the Nuclear Age: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki” opened on Oct. 3 at the Fredericton

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 Social Forum in Wolastokuk brought together social justice activists over the weekend in Fredericton.

The NB Media Co-op livestreamed panels, presentations, and workshops to make the events available for those who couldn’t attend in-person.
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Activists organize for social change at Social Forum in Wolastokuk [video]

The 2025 Social Forum in Wolastokuk brought together social justice activists over the weekend in Fredericton. The NB Media Co-op

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 4d

Social Forum in Wolastokuk LIVESTREAM:

Temporary fish plant workers whose work permits are "tied to their bosses" face systemic abuse in New Brunswick, says Niger Saravia of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change.

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Livestream: Social Forum in Wolastokuk

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 4d

Temporary foreign workers in New Brunswick: "This is modern-day slavery," says Cristian Sanabria, Community Legal Worker at the Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre.

#SocialForumInWolastokuk

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Livestream: Social Forum in Wolastokuk

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 4d

Niger Saravia of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change describes how temporary foreign workers are subject to surveillance by bosses. TFWs on the Acadian peninsula often have no work and receive no pay, forcing them to rely on food banks that are often inaccessible in these rural areas.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 4d

Migrant workers in New Brunswick are subject to surveillance at homes controlled by employers, Saravia explains. Abusive employers prevent workers from talking to organizers.
#SocialForumInWolastokuk #Livestream

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 4d

Tune in now to our YouTube livestream of the Social Forum in Wolastokuk — a space for dialogue, solidarity, and collective action for justice.
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Livestream: Social Forum in Wolastokuk

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 5d

Join us at the Social Forum in Wolastokuk, Oct. 4-5 in Fredericton.
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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 6d

Contractors begin clearing an access road for PROENERGY’s proposed 500 MW gas/diesel plant near Centre Village, prompting local outrage. Residents worry about water, noise, and pollution near their homes and Howling Creek Farm.

Report by Bruce Wark
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Access road for fossil fuel power plant prompts outrage from locals

There was a strong “security” presence Wednesday as contractors working for the US company PROENERGY began clearing brush and trees

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 6d

Since 2000, over 3 million trees have been destroyed in the occupied West Bank. The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature responds by replanting—10 trees for every 1 destroyed—to defend Palestinian food security, sovereignty, and culture
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‘They uproot a tree in Palestine…We plant ten’: How Palestinians are seeding resistance

In 2024, Israel illegally stole 23.7 square kilometres of land from Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. This number alone

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 7d

Connecting Gaza: New Brunswickers are among a network supporting families amid genocide
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Connecting Gaza: New Brunswickers are among a network supporting families amid genocide

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 7d

New Brunswickers among network supporting families in ‘uninhabitable’ Gaza Strip [video]

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New Brunswickers among network supporting families in ‘uninhabitable’ Gaza Strip [video]

Photojournalist Rizek Abdel Jawad was trying to buy a tent in his hometown of Gaza City shortly before he was

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 8d

Free, prior, and informed consent: The heart of truth and reconciliation
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Free, prior, and informed consent: The heart of truth and reconciliation

As we honour Truth and Reconciliation Day on September 30, Canada marks 15 years since it formally endorsed the United

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 9d

Researcher launches new book on abortion access

Abortion is decriminalized in Canada, but an audience in Fredericton recently heard that while there is much to celebrate, there is more work to be done to ensure abortion access.

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Researcher launches new book on abortion access

Abortion is decriminalized in Canada, but an audience in Fredericton recently heard that while there is much to celebrate, there

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 14d

A veteran journalist says that Canadian coverage of Israel's ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip, a military campaign widely condemned as a genocide, has revealed a crisis in contemporary journalism.
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Journalist Samira Mohyeddin on the Israel Exception

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 14d

Canadian news media complicit in Israeli genocide cover-up, says veteran journalist [video]

NB Media Co-op’s 16th annual keynote speech continued despite 'zoom bombing' attack

Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social
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Canadian news media complicit in Israeli genocide cover-up, says veteran journalist [video]

A veteran journalist says that Canadian coverage of Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip, a military campaign widely condemned

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 15d

Happening now!

NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 22d

We’re just one week away from NB Media Co-op’s 16th AGM & keynote address!!

📅Tuesday, September 23

🕕 AGM: 6:00 PM | 🕖 Keynote: 7:00 PM AT

Journalist Samira Mohyeddin will deliver the 16th annual keynote address entitled, The Israel Exception.
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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 16d

People with disabilities are central figures in a pair of one-act plays by a New Brunswick writer that will be shown this week at a festival in Alabama
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People with disabilities are the heroes in new plays by New Brunswick author

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 16d

People with disabilities are the heroes in new plays by New Brunswick author [video]

Playwright's work will be featured at Alabama International Fringe Festival this week
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People with disabilities are the heroes in new plays by New Brunswick author [video]

People with disabilities are central figures in a pair of one-act plays by a New Brunswick writer that will be

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 22d

Nous sommes à une semaine de l’AGA et du discours annuel de la Coop Média NB.

📅 mardi 23 septembre 2025
🕕 AGA à 18 h | 🕖 Discours d’ouverture à 19 h

La journaliste Samira Mohyeddin prononcera le 16e discours annuel intitulé « L’exception israélienne »
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Samira Mohyeddin parlera sur l’exception israélienne

La journaliste Samira Mohyeddin prononcera le 16e discours annuel de la NB Media Co-op intitulé « L'exception israélienne » le

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 16d

Happening tomorrow!!

NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 22d

We’re just one week away from NB Media Co-op’s 16th AGM & keynote address!!

📅Tuesday, September 23

🕕 AGM: 6:00 PM | 🕖 Keynote: 7:00 PM AT

Journalist Samira Mohyeddin will deliver the 16th annual keynote address entitled, The Israel Exception.
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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 16d

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 19d

Moncton landlord accused of illegal renovictions, harassment

First, the new owner stopped accepting rental subsidies. Now, tenants have received termination notices — for renovations to create subsidized units.

Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social
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Moncton landlord accused of illegal renovictions, harassment

When a Dieppe-based holding company bought an apartment building in central Moncton earlier this year, low-income tenants learned that the

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 19d

Moncton landlord accused of illegal renovictions, harassment

First, the new owner stopped accepting rental subsidies. Now, tenants have received termination notices — for renovations to create subsidized units.

Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social
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Moncton landlord accused of illegal renovictions, harassment

When a Dieppe-based holding company bought an apartment building in central Moncton earlier this year, low-income tenants learned that the

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