Ryan Cullins News Today

After backing away from a possible early election call last fall, New Brunswick’s governing Progressive Conservatives are accelerating their preparations for a 2024 campaign.

New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer of Health will answer questions from a committee of MLAs about the province’s COVID-19 response on Thursday morning.

Progressive Conservative ministers and backbenchers were called to a meeting with Premier Blaine Higgs on Tuesday afternoon as New Brunswickers waited to see if the premier would call a snap election.

An ambulance crew responding to a call in the Miramichi area was given faulty information by its digital mapping service and had to reroute around a closed bridge, according to a local MLA.

More people are vulnerable to homelessness than before the pandemic, says a national researcher who hosted a forum in Moncton. The New Brunswick government also announced funding for more tiny homes in Fredericton Tuesday, to help get people into housing.

Fredericton councillors and city staff have written to area MLAs, asking that a review of the municipal property tax equalization process be made fairer and more transparent, and that it allow the city to keep more of the commercial property taxes than it currently does.