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Local candidates make last-minute pitch to voters

Published Saturday September 25th, 2010

Election | Politicians talk about how their platforms would impact Fredericton, touch on issues such as the deficit, job creation, health care, NB Power and reducing student debt

By SHAWN BERRY
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Fredericton candidates got a chance to make a last-minute pitch to the business community Friday as the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce held a local candidate election panel.

Fifteen candidates running for the Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, NDP and Green parties participated.

They focused on getting their point across as election day looms.

Green party promises 'transformational' change

Published Saturday September 25th, 2010

New party offers revolutionary vision for N.B.'s future

By: TIMES & TRANSCRIPT STAFF

FREDERICTON - Running in their first provincial election in New Brunswick was a change unto itself, but the Green Party wants to shake things up even more than that.

Leader Jack MacDougall presented voters with a comprehensive, "transformational" campaign platform with the objective of getting the province's books in order and making the economy more sustainable.

Charlotte-Campobello's new dawn

Published Friday September 24th, 2010

Election: With incumbent Tony Huntjens retiring, the field is wide open for five new candidates

Derwin Gowan
Telegraph-Journal

ST. STEPHEN - Candidates soliciting support in Charlotte-Campobello face a challenge.

Early in September they campaigned through a heat wave, then a hurricane. Temperatures moderated but, now, people worry more about back to school. Who has time for an election?

Green leader discusses health-care concerns

Published Friday September 24th, 2010

Leader Jack MacDougall proposes community health centres

by Meg Edwards
Times & Transcript staff

SACKVILLE - Green Party Leader Jack MacDougall and Tantramar riding candidate Margaret Tusz-King held a news conference yesterday at the Sackville offices of party supporter Dr. Allison Dysart.

Before the conference had officially begun, an audience member had already asked if Dysart was taking patients, which led directly to the discussion of the dearth of doctors in the province.

"40,000 people do not have access to the health-care system," said MacDougall, adding that in many cases people need care but not necessarily a physician.

Leaders play political version of deal or no deal

Published Friday September 24th, 2010

By HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN
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Was there a deal or wasn't there?

Green party Leader Jack MacDougall said there was an agreement among the five parties fielding candidates in this provincial election that if all five weren't invited to the leaders' debates, none would participate.

"Fundamentally, there was a handshake agreement unanimously supported by the five parties ... so we talked about honesty. My word is good and yet they broke an all-party agreement," MacDougall said.

"We agreed that we wanted all leaders invited and to participate in order for any debate to take place ... We had a meeting specifically to deal with this CTV debate.

"I'm clearly telling you that we had an agreement and the agreement was broke. I think it was a crystallizing moment in this entire debate," MacDougall said. "We did that for all debates ... All three of them compromised their agreement to get on the Steve Murphy show. Their principles stopped at the point of mild inconvenience."