News & Article Archive
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Green Party Plan to Support Family Farms
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 16, 2024 4:22 PM

October 16, 2024
ROGERSVILLE – Today, Deputy Leader Kevin Arseneau shared the Green Party Plan to support farmers and family farms in New Brunswick.
“Agriculture is in crisis in New Brunswick,” said Arseneau. “Farmers are living in poverty and their debt is increasing. It takes leadership to fix this crisis. But all the Liberals and Conservatives can think of is supporting the IBMs - the Irvings, Braggs and McCains - leaving family farms behind.”
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Green Party Calls for Urgent Action on Women’s and Gender Diverse Healthcare
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 15, 2024 1:26 PM

October 15, 2024
SAINT JOHN - Today in Saint John, Green Party Deputy Leader Megan Mitton announced the Party’s plan for improving women’s and gender diverse healthcare in New Brunswick.
“Women’s and gender diverse healthcare services have been ignored by successive governments, with no plan to ensure that women have access to the unique care that they need, when they need it,” stated Mitton. “This goes from family planning to perinatal healthcare, while pregnant and after giving birth, to menopause.”
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Caring for Our Seniors: A Commitment to Dignity and Quality Care
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 11, 2024 10:17 AM

October 11, 2024
RIVERVIEW – Today, Green Party leader David Coon, joined by Riverview candidate Sarah Lord, outlined the Green Party’s plan to address the urgent need for improved senior care.
“Our aging population deserves to age with dignity and receive quality care right in their communities,” Coon stated. “As more and more New Brunswickers are forced to live in hospitals waiting for nursing home care, it’s clear that governments have not held up their end of the bargain.”
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Green Party Plan to Support People’s Mental Health
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 10, 2024 11:25 AM

October 10, 2024
MONCTON – Green Party Leader David Coon announced the mental health and addictions plank of the Green Party platform today.
“Our mental health care system is bare bones and failing so many. We will implement the Canadian Mental Health Association’s recommendation to increase the province’s proportion of its health budget to 12 percent to fix this problem.
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David Coon Unveils Green Party Election Platform
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 09, 2024 11:03 AM

October 9, 2024
FREDERICTON – Today, David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, unveiled the Green Party Election Platform for the 2024 provincial election at a press conference at the party’s campaign headquarters.
“This platform addresses the most pressing issues facing New Brunswickers today - the crisis in healthcare, housing, the cost of living, and the climate breakdown,” Coon stated. “And it recognizes how all of these issues are interconnected and need to be addressed together. The Green platform will bring hope to New Brunswickers because it commits to action, to implement concrete practical solutions to the multiple challenges we face as a province, to actually fix the problems that bedevil us,” said Coon.
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David Coon Unveils Green Party Plan to Combat Climate Change in New Brunswick
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 08, 2024 11:52 AM

October 8, 2024
FREDERICTON – Today, David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, announced a bold plan to tackle climate change that will make life more affordable, while creating new green jobs. Coon said the Green plan will provide affordable alternatives to driving, enable New Brunswickers to harvest free energy from the sun, and cut their power costs.
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Greens to Restore Local Authority to Community Hospitals
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 07, 2024 11:33 AM

October 7, 2024
SACKVILLE – This morning Green Party leader David Coon joined Green Party deputy leader Megan Mitton in Sackville to announce the Green Party’s commitment to restore management authority to local hospitals.
“We will restore the autonomy that hospitals and health centres lost under the amalgamation of eight regional health authorities into two,” said Coon. “No more decisions handed down from on high by managers who do not work at the hospital.”
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Green Party Announces Gender-Balanced Slate of Candidates
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 05, 2024 11:56 AM

October 5, 2024
FREDERICTON - The Green Party of New Brunswick is proud to have confirmed a gender-balanced slate of candidates for the 2024 provincial election.
“I am proud that we have such a strong team of diverse candidates offering to represent their communities in the Legislative Assembly,” stated Green Party Leader David Coon. “Leadership matters in this election and our candidates are community leaders. I know they will work hard every day to earn the trust of voters in their ridings.”
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Green Party Plan to Make Main Streets Thrive
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 04, 2024 11:47 AM

October 4, 2024
ROGERSVILLE – This morning Green Party leader David Coon and Deputy Leader Kevin Arseneau announced the Green Party’s plan to reduce the small business tax rate from 2.5 percent to 1 percent, just as it is in Prince Edward Island. It would also raise the income threshold at which the higher corporate tax rate kicks in from $500,000 to $700,000.
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Green Party Plan to Create a Universal School Food Program
Posted by Jill Mersereau · October 03, 2024 10:40 AM

October 3, 2024
FREDERICTON - This morning Green Party leader David Coon committed that a Green government will create a Universal School Food breakfast and lunch program.
“All too often I have heard stories about teachers who have spent their own money to ensure students in their classes don’t go hungry,” said Coon. “While this is commendable, we need a proper province-wide school breakfast and lunch program in place to ensure that teachers can focus on what they do best, teaching, and students can focus on learning.”