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Hundreds attend funeral for labour leader Danny Légère [video]

Jan 7, 2025 | nbmediacoop.org | David Koch |Susan O'Donnell

The funeral of New Brunswick labour leader Danny Légère brought together hundreds of people on Saturday, including prominent union officials, politicians, family, and friends. The funeral for Légère, who was president of the NB Federation of Labour when he died on Dec. 26, took place at St-Thomas de Memramcook Roman Catholic Church, just outside of Moncton.
Vigil: reflections on the Montreal Massacre

Dec 6, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell

Note: This story was originally published on Dec. 6, 2019. The oldest file on my computer is named “Vigil.” It’s my story of the vigil in Montreal the day after the Montreal Massacre, the name given to the event on December 6, 1989 when a young man entered a university engineering school, killed 14 women, injured many others, then shot himself, leaving a note declaring he hated feminists.
New study highlights Indigenous nations’ opposition to nuclear projects

Nov 29, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell |Robert Atwin

The global nuclear industry has been in decline for almost three decades. Almost every year, more reactors shut down than start up. This year, nuclear energy’s share of global commercial gross electricity generation is less than half it was in 1996. One reason for the industry’s decline is the high cost of nuclear energy compared to the low cost of alternative sources of energy generation.
Can climate action be decolonized?

Nov 4, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell

When Indigenous scholars Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang famously wrote: “decolonization is not a metaphor,” they meant that true decolonization requires changing the world order, giving back land and life to Indigenous peoples. Decolonization is not a method for improving institutions, policies and organizations. It is meant to be unsettling. Without a radical agenda, decolonization is another form of settler appropriation.
Will Susan Holt’s new government continue New Brunswick’s nuclear fantasies?

Nov 2, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell

Successive New Brunswick governments have been bewitched by two nuclear fantasies: first, its beleaguered public utility NB Power can connect two experimental reactors to the electricity grid, and second, the small province can successfully run a nuclear power reactor. Both fantasies will confront Premier Susan Holt early in her new Liberal government’s tenure. Will she break the spell and end the province’s nuclear delusions?
Déjà vu: another CUPE strike on the horizon?

Jul 4, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell

One of the New Brunswick CUPE locals in the historic 2021 strike could be on the picket line again soon if an impasse with the provincial government remains unresolved. At a media event in Fredericton on July 3, CUPE 1190 President Jonathan Guimond said that if the government fails to bring an improved wage offer to the bargaining table after 19 months of negotiations, the union members could be on strike at the end of the month.
Do the research and end the nuclear hype in New Brunswick

Jun 29, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell

New Brunswick’s ARC nuclear project is in trouble. This situation highlights the lack of critical knowledge about nuclear reactor designs within NB Power and the New Brunswick government. The ARC project goal is to design and build a nuclear reactor cooled with liquid sodium metal at the Point Lepreau site on the Bay of Fundy. NB Power also plans a second reactor at the site, the Moltex reactor design cooled with molten salt.
The plutonium connection: Why I no longer conduct my research at the University of New Brunswick

May 17, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell

On Thursday this week, two very different emails landed in my inbox minutes apart. The juxtaposition jolted me, and I thought: it’s time to share my story about my departure from the University of New Brunswick. The first email, from the NB Media Co-op, informed me that my commentary written with Gordon Edwards was just published.
Canada’s plutonium mishap in India was 50 years ago this week - is history repeating itself now?

May 16, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell |Gordon Edwards

In the public imagination, nuclear power for electricity and nuclear weapons are entirely separate issues. Because Canada is not a nuclear weapons state, Canada’s nuclear power reactors are thought to be unrelated to weapons of mass destruction, and its nuclear technology exports are considered ‘peaceful.’Yet this week marks the 50-year anniversary of one day in May when Canada’s ‘peaceful’ nuclear image was shattered.
‘Our objective is a socialist Canada’ - interview with the Communist Party

May 15, 2024 | nbmediacoop.org | Susan O'Donnell |Gerry McAlister

Since its launch almost 15 years ago, the NB Media Co-op has published numerous articles covering progressive politicians and policies proposed by the NDP and Green Party but very few about the Communist Party. This week, Communist Party of Canada leader Elizabeth Rowley visited Fredericton. The party invited the NB Media Co-op to interview her, and we accepted.