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The following is an exchange during Friday's question period in the legislature between Opposition Tory member Bruce Fitch, a former energy minister in the previous Conservative administration, and Energy Minister Jack Keir on industrial benefits under the tentative agreement to sell most of the assets NB Power to Hydro-Quebec: Mr.
Updating the federal Opposition
Mayor Stephen Brunet is pleased with how a meeting went last week between three northern mayors and federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
New budget woes may shut down rural courthouses
Maine's chief justice said Thursday that she is hopeful the judicial branch can find ways to weather the next round of deep budget cuts without closing courthouses in rural areas of the state.
N.B. workers want chickens processed in province
More than 50 poultry workers from northwestern New Brunswick gathered at the legislature yesterday to protest the Liberal government's handling of the so-called chicken wars.
Mayors present concerns to federal Liberal leader
Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and MP for Madawaska-Restigouche Jean-Claude D'Amours met the mayors of Bathurst, Campbellton, and Edmunston, last evening in advance of a Liberal Party fundraiser to discuss economic development in Northern New Brunswick.
Wildlife fencing to be erected
Construction has started on 32.4 km of wildlife fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway in Madawaska County, Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced.
MP chose constituency over party in gun vote
It's rare that an MP parts with his leader on a national issue that is defining for political parties and divisive among Canadians.
Fund created to spur art projects in Fredericton
The New Brunswick Arts Board, the city and the federal and provincial governments are providing $70,000 to fund artists who want to create community arts projects in the city.
Liberals call for tough rules to curb credit-card industry
Liberal politicians lined up Monday to denounce the Harper government's protections against gouging by the credit- and debit-card industry as toothless and to demand immediate action.
Host cities chosen for Jeux de l'Acadie 2011 and 2012
During the Societe des Jeux de l'Acadie banquet, one part of its annual general meeting held in Saint John on October 24, the names of the municipalities that will host the games in 2011 and 2012 were announced.
For Maine's top quilter, every stitch tells a story
Nan Pelletier, the 2009 Quilter of the Year, welcomes guests to her display at the Maine Quilts show at the Augusta Civic Center on July 25.
N.B. companies worry about plan to close section of railway in Maine
A Maine railway has plans to shut down a large swath of track in the state in a move industrial firms in New Brunswick are decrying as a loss of a key transportation service.
Shutdown of Maine's north-south track a 'concern'
Transport: Provincial companies will need to find a freight shipping solution if the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway abandons its Madawaska-to-Millinocket railway B1 REBECCA PENTY Telegraph-Journal A Maine railway company has plans to shut down a long stretch of track in the state in a move industrial firms are decrying as a loss of key ...
N.B. woman chosen to guard Olympic flame
A young aboriginal woman from northwestern New Brunswick is going to Greece next week to get the Olympic flame.
Three municipal byelections set for Monday
Voters in three New Brunswick communities have byelections scheduled for Monday to elect new council members.
The Madawaska-Victoria RCMP are investigating an armed robbery that occurred in Saint-Basile earlier this week.
A teacher from the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation has won national recognition for her work with aboriginal children and their families.
The family of a missing Fredericton man searched the cool, deep waters of the St.
On September 29, members of J Division's Customs and Excise Unit in St. Leonard and Madawaska-Victoria RCMP seized 34,200 illegal cigarettes and a 2009 Toyota Camry in Riviere- Verte.
Province funding $11M in construction projects
The Liberal government is dishing out $11 million for road and highway construction projects in northwest New Brunswick.