Cybersecurity expert questions VoltaGrid's foreign interference claim in street festival controversy

“I personally had to go and purchase a second-hand air conditioner to beat the heat this summer, and it took away from my grocery money,” said one downtown Moncton resident who lives on a fixed income. “It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation here in the Maritimes especially.”

NB Power has announced a new program that will provide rebates to landlords who invest in energy efficiency upgrades in their buildings. Housing rights advocates are warning that it doesn’t guarantee any benefits to renters — and that landlords might use it as an opportunity to jack up the rent.

This is absolutely disgraceful from Canada. nbmediacoop.org/2026/07/07/s...

New from me: Advocates have been urging Ottawa to evacuate students like Baraa from the Gaza Strip as the genocide continues. Just today, two more people were reportedly killed in Israeli strikes on the the al-Mawasi displacement camp, where he is living.

In case you missed it: Aizar Cabrera, from the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, spoke in Moncton and Fredericton about how people have built solidarity against ICE during Trump's brutal and deadly anti-immigrant crackdown.

“The U.S. federal government is attacking people who are standing against them," says a migrant justice organizer who recently visited New Brunswick on a speaking tour. "They’re trying to scare us, but we ain’t gonna back down. Quite the opposite, we’re gonna rise.”

The NB Health Coalition has welcomed the government’s decision to end a contract with Medavie, which handles services for people awaiting a doctor. Now, the public health campaigners are calling for the province to take back control of more health services consigned to the private sector.

Reining in rent increases will require “better enforcement, better protections against eviction, and preferably, rent control tied to individual units, rather than tenancies,” says Matthew Hayes, a professor of sociology at St. Thomas University.

Big scoop from @readtheorchard.org - not sure how the Edmonton police chief survives this. www.readtheorchard.org/p/scoop-edmo...

Bill C-34 lets social media companies off the hook, only requiring them to ensure that users are “old enough to play in their dirty playpen as opposed to cleaning it up for everyone,” says Mount Allison University sociologist Erin Steuter.

“Anything that is there to destroy our land, warriors will always oppose it,” said Jason Augustine of Elsipogtog. “All we want is to have our traditional medicine going — our traditional food, our traditional hunting, traditional fishing… our traditional rights.”

"Many observers argued that a timely intervention by an Indigenous person trained in de-escalation could have calmed the situation, effectively saving the life of Dedam, 34, a beloved community member who was a father of seven." #NewBrunswick #Canada #Policing #Suicide

Low-income households need targeted energy rebate, some anti-poverty advocates tell province But housing researcher warns that people fall through the cracks with income-tested programs, says greater wealth redistribution needed By @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social nbmediacoop.org/2026/06/03/l...

SCOOP New @thestar.com reporting reveals a contract giving Palantir access to Canadian military data. But DND also holds a large contract for social media monitoring that does “image recognition.” Was Palantir given a compendium of Canadian profiles? drugdatadecoded.ca/canadian-mil...

Yeah, this is a huge indicator that the defence build up we are seeing enacted by the PM has little - to nothing - to do with standing up to the U.S. Because with this approach to U.S. big tech it isn't going to matter whose planes we buy.

ICYMI: A migrant justice organizer from Minneapolis recently visited New Brunswick to speak about how people in his community have fought back against U.S. President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Watch the full presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXhZ...

New Brunswick community sector workers underpaid, exhausted: NB Coalition for Pay Equity report Low salaries and lack of benefits in positions staffed mostly by women 'cannot be separated from the broader undervaluation of care work' By @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social nbmediacoop.org/2026/05/25/n...

Utility to introduce 'demand charge' and changes to credit for power exported to grid, pending approval from regulator

"Remember that immigrant rights are workers' rights, and workers' rights are human rights," says Aizar Cabrera of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. This program includes highlights from his talk in Moncton, part of events that marked May Day weekend.

A federal government proposal to privatize Canada's publicly-owned airports has been met with pushback from critics who say it will result in issues such as worsening labor conditions and higher passenger fees. Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social nbmediacoop.org/2026/05/13/w...

City councillor Veronique Arsenault won a decisive victory in the race for mayor of Miramichi in Monday’s local government elections, gaining 49 per cent of votes in a five-way contest. Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social nbmediacoop.org/2026/05/12/c...

"In total, the organizers presented eight events filled with music, nostalgia, dance, and above all, bursts of laughter. Here is a recap of my Arab journey — one that made April 2026 a month I will never forget." Report by Hubert Théberge

PM speaks with "President of the State of Palestine". First time I've seen Canada's recognition of Palestinian statehood referenced in an official government statement. Still very far to go in bringing legal and political weight to that recognition, but that's a notable step.

Pretty jarring that if you’ve lived in Alberta recently, your home address — who you live with and so much more — has been getting handed around by end-times MAGA creeps.

Canada has just banned Iranian football officials from attending FIFA Congress in Vancouver after previously impeding the entry of the Palestinian FA. We argue for @breachmedia.ca that this is just the latest evidence of Canada's absurdly-Zionist immigration double-standards.

New Brunswick seafood processor fined $90K over workplace conditions for migrant workers The latest penalty handed to Pêcheries LeBreton follows an earlier record-breaking sanction that was quashed by the Federal Court Report by @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social nbmediacoop.org/2026/04/29/n...

Fine seems small, honestly!

Mind boggling to me that CBC's flagship radio news broadcast can do a glowing report about how a generic version of Ozempic will save people money, while managing to completely omit any mention of the Pharmacare Act, which the Liberal govt has quietly abandoned.

The federal govt has handed a $90,000 fine to Pêcheries LeBreton, a lobster processing company that operates on the Acadian Peninsula, over abusive workplace conditions for temporary foreign workers. nbmediacoop.org/2026/04/29/n...

New Brunswick's Minister of Post-Secondary Education said "it’s the end of play time" for people struggling with student debt and intends to send private collection agencies after them and potentially garnish wages. In this economy.

My latest for the @nbmediacoop.bsky.social

Nato's just a street gang, not a defensive military alliance.

«He believes Indige-Watch would have been able to defuse the situation. Dedam would sometimes throw things when he was frustrated, which might explain why he threw the hatchet “I wish they had been there, anybody in the community that knows Iggy knows that he wouldn’t mean anybody any kind of harm”

4D chess in which Trump gradually eats all the pieces.

Very important new report in @nbmediacoop.bsky.social.

Patrice had also just stepped into the role of director and was in a ceremony at the time of the shooting. Afterwards, she said, “I look at my phone and all I see was Iggy was shot by the RCMP.” The police only called her team after the shooting to help with crowd control.

NEW: After an RCMP officer shot and killed Iggy Dedam in his home in Elsipogtog First Nation, questions swirled about why police hadn't first called Indige-Watch, the Indigenous-led peacekeeper unit in Elsipogtog First Nation. Many believe they could have saved his life.

Awful.

This edition of the NB Update focusses on disability rights, energy poverty, and accessibility in New Brunswick. NB Update: Low-income woman with disabilities forced from her home by surging energy prices | NBCC researchers complete accessibility study

NB Update: Low-income woman with disabilities forced from her home by surging energy prices | NBCC researchers complete accessibility study

I don't know what’s going to happen at 8pm tonight. My hope is Trump will back off. My guess is something non-nuclear, but I dont rule nuclear out. What I do know is that unless we deal with the imbalance of power that causes 'Trumps,' disaster is inevitable. #USpoli #CDNpoli #Oligarchy #Inequality

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

I hope that people on here can conjure as much energy for the fact that Israel has 'legalized' arbitrary military 'court' death sentences for stone-throwing Palestinian children as they can for indignation at hearing the words "Free Palestine." I truly do.

A review of NB Power suggests that the province should consider another “large scale” nuclear plant alongside the current one at Point Lepreau, but it doesn’t recommend any further pursuit of small modular reactors. It could be the last nail in the coffin for the controversial technology in N.B.

He could call for nationalizing the tar sands, using the profits to fund a green transition. The Breach's Martin Lukacs (an advisor to Lewis) called for as much in this Guardian column years ago. Lewis' policy of a windfall tax seems milquetoast in comparison. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Honestly just call for expropriation and mandatory trade union councils. What are the media and politicians going to do to you that they won’t do now?

Avi Lewis: The government should do more than prop up the market. Liberal diehards: Why do you hate freedom

We're going LIVE from the NDP convention at 10:30am ET. ⏰ Tune in to see who will become the next leader of the federal NDP! We'll have @desmondcole.bsky.social discussing the results with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, El Jones, Martin Lukacs, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=741B...