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Green Party Commits to Restoring Rural Services
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · September 21, 2024 11:50 AM
September 21, 2024
St. STEPHEN - This morning Green Party leader David Coon unveiled his commitment to restore rural services cut by past Liberal and Conservative governments.
Joined by St. Croix Green candidate Mark Groleau, Coon committed to returning court services to Charlotte County and the Acadian Peninsula to ensure rural residents have timely access to justice in their communities without tying up local police officers for days, an hour away in Saint John and Bathurst respectively.
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Green Party Announces Plan to Solve Primary Healthcare Crisis
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · September 20, 2024 11:19 AM
September 20
FREDERICTON - This morning, Green Party leader David Coon announced his plan to invest $380 million annually to fix the primary healthcare system in New Brunswick.
“Everyone should have a right to access a primary healthcare team in their community,” said Coon. “There is no doubt that fixing this broken system will be a challenge and will require a generational investment, but I’m up to the task of getting it done. We will eliminate waiting lists and we will bring our nurses home.”
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Green Party Launches 2024 Election Campaign
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · September 18, 2024 4:30 PM
September 18, 2024
FREDERICTON - The Green Party of New Brunswick held a rally at the Delta Hotel in Fredericton today to kickoff the 2024 “Green is the Colour of Change” election campaign.
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Green Party Proposes New Brunswick Electricity Support Program
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · September 12, 2024 2:35 PM
September 12, 2024
FREDERICTON – This morning Green Party leader David Coon announced that a Green government will create a New Brunswick Electricity Support Program, to help low income New Brunswickers offset NB Power’s unprecedented rate increases.
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Green Party Leader David Coon Would Restructure NB Power
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · August 20, 2024 2:23 PM
August 20, 2024
FREDERICTON - In the wake of recent news by NB Power that Point Lepreau won’t be generating power anytime soon, and the unprecedented power rate increase NB Power is seeking to keep up with the spiralling costs of the troubled nuclear plant, Green Party leader David Coon says he would restructure NB Power.
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Green Health Critic Demands Public Inquiry into Atypical Neurodegenerative Disease
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · August 15, 2024 10:23 AM
August 15, 2024
SACKVILLE – With new details in an article published in the New York Times Magazine, Green Party Health Critic and MLA for Memramcook-Tantramar Megan Mitton says there needs to be a public inquiry into what is causing such high rates of atypical neurodegenerative disease among New Brunswickers, with especially alarming rates in young New Brunswickers.
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Public Safety Minister failing to keep New Brunswickers safe on highways
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · July 16, 2024 3:04 PM
July 16, 2024
FREDERICTON - In response to a recent report revealing New Brunswick had the highest highway death rate in the country last year, Green Party leader David Coon is calling on Public Safety Minister Kris Austin to initiate an in-depth investigation into the causes of these tragic accidents and what steps can be taken to prevent them.
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Premier Must Act to Save Deteriorating New Brunswick Rail, Says Green Party Leader
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · July 09, 2024 2:12 PM
July 9, 2024
FREDERICTON -
The Premier must step up to address the lack of maintenance on the 278 km stretch of rail owned by CN Rail that runs from northern to southern New Brunswick, says David Coon, Green Party leader and MLA for Fredericton South.
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New Brunswick’s Aging Rail System Needs Revitalization
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · June 25, 2024 10:09 AM
June 25, 2024
FREDERICTON - In light of recent news that train travel through New Brunswick will take even longer now due to lack of maintenance on the tracks in northern New Brunswick, Green Party leader David Coon is calling for the province of New Brunswick to buy that length of track and maintain it for passenger rail.
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Coon Challenges Premier Higgs: Time to Honour our Treaties with First Nation in New Brunswick
Posted by Jill A Mersereau · June 21, 2024 9:23 AM
June 21, 2024
FREDERICTON - On National Indigenous Peoples Day, Green Party leader David Coon says that New Brunswick needs a government that will treat Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqey and Passamaquoddy people as partners in a nation-to-nation relationship.