News & Article Archive
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Green Party Launches 2024 Election Campaign
Posted by Jill 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 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 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 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 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 Mersereau · July 09, 2024 2:12 PM
July 9, 2024
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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 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 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.
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Access to Healthcare Must be a Right
Posted by Jill Mersereau · June 20, 2024 3:13 PM
June 19, 2024
FREDERICTON – In light of NB Health Council data that found that 20% of New Brunswickers do not have access to a permanent primary healthcare provider and two thirds of those who do can’t get an appointment within five days, Green Party Leader David Coon says that it’s time for New Brunswick to create the legal right to a primary healthcare team for all New Brunswickers in their community.
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Higgs Has Once Again Failed Renters
Posted by Jill Mersereau · June 20, 2024 2:56 PM
June 20, 2024
FREDERICTON – Green Party leader David Coon is calling out Premier Higgs for caving to the lobbying of large corporate property owners after his cabinet quietly passed new regulations making it easier for them to raise rents above the inflation rate.