A leading credit rating agency has downgraded New Brunswick’s fiscal outlook from stable to negative in light of the provincial government’s grim deficit and debt projections.
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Standard and Poor’s reaffirms New Brunswick’s credit rating, with asterisk of what’s needed next
Rating agency’s opinion arguably a vote of confidence for Holt second budget, but N.B. told to control expense growth - quickly
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BIG: Supreme Court of Canada will not hear appeal by Wolastoqey nations of a ruling that excluded private industrial forest land from claim of ownership in their title case. It means this decision from last December is the final word on that issue: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 6-3 that New Brunswick's lieutenant-governor must speak English and French.
The New Brunswick Court of Appeal has narrowed the scope of a title claim made by the Wolastoqey Nation. Private land belonging to three large forestry companies are now excluded from any ownership cl...
New changes being introduce today will redefining who is a lobbyist, require lobbyists to file monthly update reports, and grant the integrity commissioner new authority to investigate non-compliance.
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Jacques Poitras
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ANALYSIS: Higher gas prices bring windfall of revenue for Holt government
That’s as the premier hopes the spike in prices will be short lived, while lamenting how global markets have erased her cut
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New Brunswick SMR company hasn’t been given most of the millions Ottawa promised it
And the feds say there are safeguards on the money that require Moltex to remain incorporated in Canada and keep jobs, R&D in the country
That's as a sale of the company nears
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That’s as the premier hopes the spike in prices will be short lived, while lamenting how global markets have erased her cut
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Holt government unveils massive overhaul to lobbyist rules
Minister says it will force hundreds more to register as lobbyists in New Brunswick, will publicly reveal when politicians attend NHL and NBA games paid for by private interests
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Minister says it will force hundreds more to register as lobbyists, will publicly reveal when politicians attend NHL and NBA games
