The tax deals let First Nations keep 95 per cent of the provincial tax they collect at on-reserve retail outlets, including gas stations and convenience stores. Some will expire in 90 days and others will end next year.
Last year bands brought in tax amounts ranging from $17.6 million at Madawaska Maliseet First Nation to $230,000 at Tobique.
Premier Blaine Higgs calls the system unfair to non-Indigenous businesses and even unjust between First Nations that make a lot of money and those that make less.
Dunn suggested Tuesday that resource revenue-sharing agreements for forestry and mining signed in Ontario in 2018 were one example of a better way to go.
FREDERICTON Parks Canada is offering to move the belongings of the late Jackie Vautour out of New Brunswick s Kouchibouguac National Park. But Vautour s son calls the offer shameful and says he ll continue his father s 50-year battle against expropriation of their land. It s so shameful, Edmond Vautour said in an interview Thursday. A letter like that just two months after my father passed away. Imagine how my mother felt to hear that. The elder Vautour remained on his property, on the east coast of the province, after the park was created in 1969, living in a cabin without electricity until his death in February of this year.
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Steve Salterio says Mount Allison University misrepresented itself when it laid out certain details in an offer that convinced him to leave his job at Queen s University to take one with the Sackville, N.B., school.(Queen s University)
A high-profile business professor is accusing Mount Allison University of reneging on a promise to give him a special deal to reduce his teaching load if he brought his academic star power to the idyllic New Brunswick school.
Steve Salterio is arguing in a lawsuit that Mount Allison president Jean-Paul Boudreau told him the dean of commerce could make it happen if Salterio abandoned his lucrative position at Queen s University in Kingston, Ont.
Daughter told she needed rapid COVID test to see dying father in hospital He died before she could get one yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Louise Rice drove hours from Quebec to New Brunswick to see her dying father. But during the final hours of his life, she was left stranded in the hospital parking lot prevented from going inside to say a final goodbye because she did not have the right paperwork to obtain the rapid COVID-19 test necessary to enter the premises.