NEW from me... Carney’s softwood lumber tariff help doesn’t go far enough: Holt The words are a rare criticism from a premier largely in lockstep with Ottawa’s response to trade tensions, but comes as one of #NB’s largest industries faces immense pressure tj.news/new-brunswic...

NEW from me... Tariffs force shutdown, layoffs at New Brunswick plant, while triggering Holt relief fund Arbec Forest Products to shut down Miramichi plant for six weeks affecting 113 employees, permanently eliminating 29 jobs tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... A longer read on New Brunswick's immigration plans Story: New Brunswick fights for more immigrants, and has plans to get asylum seekers working tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

New Brunswick MP defends controversial U.S. Christian singer 'I may not agree with everything Sean Feucht says, but I’ll defend to the end his right to say it' says Miramichi–Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... The massive, multi-part nation-building project pitch from five eastern provinces to the Carney government won’t be submitted all at once, says Premier Susan Holt An update on the Eastern Energy Partnership tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me… The Doug Ford rant that may lead to New Brunswick building Toronto skyscrapers tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW... ‘A lot of work’ still remains, LeBlanc says after Washington trade talks tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW fro me… Holt tries to sell Quebec on natural gas pipeline tj.news/new-brunswick/…#NBNB

Scoop from me… Feds won’t say if hundreds of millions of dollars in pharmacare funding is still available, while Premier Susan Holt suggests it might not be And without those dollars, one of the Holt government’s election promises may be in jeopardy tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Federal budget will further ‘unshackle’ energy industry: Long tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Holt on Aug. 1 deadline: ‘We’re not going to get a deal at all costs’ tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Largest gap yet: Drop in New Brunswickers driving to Maine widens - again Roughly 75,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from New Brunswick into Maine in June compared to the same month last year tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Holt heads to Ontario cottage country with premiers to discuss Trump strategy Primer on the meetings: tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Eight New Brunswick tourist attractions now have free or discounted admission Short list of staples selected by Ottawa now offer free admission for children 17 and under, 50% for those 18 to 24 Feds say they’re paying to offset costs. tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Holt government chief of staff to go head to head with mayor in byelection tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... New Brunswick MP picks food truck fight with Fredericton Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson is calling the move 'ideological nonsense' and a 'political gesture dressed up as social justice' tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... New Brunswick SMR company touts ‘pivotal step’ to commercialization A review that stretched on for more than three years amid struggles finds 'no fundamental barriers' to licensing proposed SMR technology tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Trump takes direct aim at New Brunswick company A video posted to the U.S. president's Truth Social account suggests 'pillaging' from American waters, and dredges up a fight over fishing tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me… Former Moltex executive sues, revealing SMR company’s struggles tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB via @

NEW from me... The federal government says 1,794 people now work at the pay centre in Miramichi, with no plans to reduce that number even as the error-plagued Phoenix pay system begins the process of being replaced tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me… It’s over: People's Alliance of New Brunswick deregisters as party, this time for good tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB via @

BREAKING: Two adopted New Brunswick sons appointed to Order of Canada tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

It looks inevitable, gas prices will be going up... New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board hears unanimous call for higher retail gas margins But a heating oil hike? That's less certain NEW from me... tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW... Nation-building project law problematic, say New Brunswick's Acadian society But all 10 New Brunswick MPs - six Liberal, four Conservative - voted in favour of fast tracking the bill to a Friday vote tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... ‘Inappropriate’ and ‘political’: Nova Scotia's highest court won’t answer whether Ottawa has the responsibility to safeguard the Chignecto Isthmus tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB #NS

NEW from me... An exhaustive long read on everything we know about the so-called Eastern Energy Partnership - and what's included in it. ANALYSIS: pipeline? Second Lepreau? What is the Eastern Energy Partnership tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... New Brunswick to get 1,500 more economic immigrants in deal with Ottawa that sees province accept 400 asylum seekers tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

A second nuclear reactor at Point Lepreau part of New Brunswick's nation-building pitch to Mark Carney, Brunswick News has learned That’s as Holt says there’s already been talks with Ontario Power Generation over a partnership to build it. tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... New Brunswick port upgrades may not qualify as 'nation building,' says Dominic LeBlanc, but another pitch from the region does tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

My three one-on-one features with New Brunswick’s newest MPs Fredericton-Oromocto MP David Myles tj.news/new-brunswic... Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Mike Dawson tj.news/new-brunswic... Madawaska-Restigouche MP Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Holt government delays, again, promise to cut gas prices tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

lberta oil pipeline to New Brunswick left out of nation-building project talk, western premiers believe route to Hudson Bay now their best option tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

From the meeting between the premiers and the PM... Holt wants natural gas pipeline through Quebec to New Brunswick tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me Holt says a pipeline should be on the shortlist of nation-building projects But Alberta Premier Smith seems to have given up on idea of a pipeline through Quebec, believing Hudson's Bay likelier option First hit from meetings in Saskatoon: tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Today... Holt heads to Saskatoon for meetings on nation-building projects tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... New Brunswick to sign agreement with Ottawa to adopt ‘one project, one review’ tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... New Brunswick’s newest senator wants action on housing and immigration Former Moncton Mayor Dawn Arnold has officially been sworn into her seat in the upper chamber tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW... King Charles opens Parliament praising Canada’s ‘unique identity’ "The True North is indeed strong and free." With photos... tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... What New Brunswickers should look for in Tuesday’s throne speech from the King tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

What am I up to today? I'm going to go take photos of the King arriving at the airport. Wild. King Charles - with many connections to N.B. - heads to Canada tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Wayne Long MP starts to flex newfound power a week into cabinet role A look at Long's first week on the job Inside cabinet, he's already advocating for a pipeline, energy corridor, more nuclear, LNG terminal expansion to go ahead tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... The New Brunswick MP who first publicly pushed for Justin Trudeau’s resignation isn’t outwardly calling on his colleagues to adopt Reform Act rules that would give caucus power to trigger a leadership review of new leader Mark Carney tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Outgoing New Brunswick MP to collect $2.5 million in pension money Two others from the province who didn’t seek re-election fell short of qualifying, but will instead get $104,900 severance cheque tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Poilievre’s shadow cabinet includes two New Brunswick MPs, leaves two out tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW... In April, 114,130 travellers entered Maine from New Brunswick in a passenger vehicle. That was 184,551 a year ago. It's the largest single-month drop yet since Donald Trump’s trade war began. tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... New Brunswick launches $5.5-million ad blitz Toronto’s busiest subway station is currently covered in N.B. advertisements A Montreal bus shelter has been replaced with a miniature replica of the Grand-Anse lighthouse tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... Today's most-read story on our website. Dominic LeBlanc on what happened behind the scenes with Trump tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Carney asks premiers to submit list of nation-building projects: What N.B. said tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

Full story, including commentary from Frank McKenna... Carney face to face with Trump: Canada isn’t for sale, ever tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB

NEW from me... HST holiday was huge, but New Brunswick restaurants now in crisis: industry tj.news/new-brunswic... #NB