New Brunswick News

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's child and youth advocate revealed Tuesday that the government's decision to review the province's policy on sexual orientation in schools came after three complaints.

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission expressed concern Monday over the government's decision to review the province's policy on sexual orientation in schools.

FREDERICTON — A former New Brunswick education minister says he believes Premier Blaine Higgs recently ordered a review of the province's policy on sexual orientation in schools because he has a plan to gut sex education.

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is facing intense scrutiny and some harsh criticism for its decision to review the province's two-year-old policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.

LAMÈQUE, N.B. — The deaths of two New Brunswick fishermen on the first day of the lobster season are evoking powerful memories of past tragedies on the water for a singer who lives on the Acadian peninsula.

LAMÈQUE, N.B. — Residents of the Acadian peninsula in New Brunswick are mourning the loss of two lobster boat crew who died on the first day of the season. The RCMP have said the two men were from Lamèque, N.B.

LAMÈQUE, N.B. — Two New Brunswick men have died after falling from a fishing boat. RCMP identified them as a 58-year-old man and a 33-year-old man both of Lamèque, a community off the northeastern tip of the Acadian Peninsula.

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Charmaine Crooks has been elected president of Canada Soccer. The former Olympian beat out former Canada Soccer vice-president Rob Newman for the top elected job at the governing body's annual meeting.

FREDERICTON — After a delay called unacceptable by the province's racism commissioner, the New Brunswick government has announced its first steps to rid the provincial map of places named with a slur against Indigenous women.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's electric utility imposed a moratorium on providing new service to cryptocurrency mining operations last year, saying it was concerned about its ability to meet the increasing demands from the power-hungry sector.