Jacques Poitras
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Provincial affairs reporter @CBCNB . Publicly funded & independent. RTs = reporting. I don’t answer anonymous accounts. Author tweets: @PoitrasBook .
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A final clash over the premier's leadership style on the last day of the last session of the 60th legislature:
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MORE: Cardy's two-page resignation letter to Higgs is absolutely stunning, one of the most remarkable things I've read in New Brunswick politics. "Wrecking ball." "Consolidation of power in your own hands." "Data my ass."
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It's official: it's going to court.
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BIG: NB Premier Higgs says voters have spoken on federal carbon tax & he will look at crafting a made-in-NB carbon price on consumers that complies with Trudeau climate plan and can replace Ottawa’s backstop.
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CIBC says lack of masking is a drag on the economy.
Canada’s banks and investment firms are now providing better public health guidance than most of our public health agencies. H/t
@BordonaroDay
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Huge crowd of the curious and the committed packed into this Fredericton home this afternoon to get a look at Conservative leader candidate Pierre Poilievre.
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Chrystia Freeland addressing the Ukraine crisis in fluent Ukrainian.
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Congratulations
@LauraBrownCTV
, the new president of the NB Legislature Press Gallery and (we believe) the first woman to hold the post. About time!
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What a photo by the CBC’s
@MrinaliAnchan
of a lone counter-protester (woman on the right) in downtown Fredericton.
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First zero-new-cases day in New Brunswick since April 20.
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Local Man Makes Front Page of Newspaper Not Distributed Locally
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Congratulations
@HarryForestell
on your 2021 Regional Lifetime Achievement Award from
@RTDNA_Canada
!
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 HIGGS GOVERNMENT ABANDONS PLAN TO REPLACE FRENCH IMMERSION
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Just got back from lunch. It's chaos out there. People are leaving their phones in their pockets and having conversations with each other.
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🚨NEW from me: Tories looking to remove Higgs have the numbers to start internal push for leadership review.
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"Boy, remember when 200 cases per day seemed bad, way back in ... [checks notes] the third week of December?"
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NEW from me: the premier's weekend tweets linking Susan Holt to Justin Trudeau on Policy 713 resemble a tactic used in the past by a Regina-based political consultant who's been advising Higgs since April.
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Coming this week: after a year-long CBC/Radio-Canada investigation,
@fredericzalac
& I reveal previously-secret details about Irvings companies in Bermuda.
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If I were in the office today, I'd find a way to oh-so-casually mention to my colleagues that it'll be 20 years ago tomorrow that I joined the CBC to cover New Brunswick politics. In a constantly changing media and political environment, I've never regretted it for a moment.
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NEW: in an October 2021 letter obtained by CBC News, PC MLA Dorothy Shephard told Premier Blaine Higgs that his lack of trust in ministers and civil servants was paralysing decision-making. “Your reckless and arbitrary conduct has destroyed a team that could make your success.”
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This is Margaret Isaacs, CBC NB’s media librarian who is retiring today. When we need old footage to show how things have changed (or haven’t), it’s Margaret who finds it. She does many other important things too, always with a good-natured smile.
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LIBERAL JENICA ATWIN ELECTED IN FREDERICTON - CBC Decision Desk
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Dorothy Shephard tells Information Morning Saint John she wrote a 6-page letter to Higgs in October 2021 urging him to change his management style & got no productive response. She says she can’t see herself running in 2024 if he’s still PC leader.
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BIG: in first N.B. ruling of its kind, unvaccinated dad loses custody of immunocompromised child | CBC News
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J.D. Irving asked CBC to stop me from reporting on them & restrict my other Twitter account. CBC response is here:
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Cameraman Joe McDonald is retiring from the CBC today. Joe made us all look good and also helped with interviewing from time to time, tossing in a pointed question at the end that often yielded the most interesting answer of all. Wish Joe a great retirement.
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A former party leader who was ousted after senior caucus members abandoned him apparently believes it’s not news when senior cabinet members abandon their leader.
@CBCNews
will not rest until
@PremierHiggs
is gone. Canadians support LGBT rights. But bully tactics from radical LGBTs is eroding that respect.This is ALL about parents’ rights to advise their own children.NB MLAs need to stand up on that point.
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NEW from me: Coon would make deal with Liberals if Higgs fell short of majority:
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Please wish a happy retirement to
@connellcbc
. Today's his last day. One of the calmest, kindest reporters around, Connell's always been willing to decode Saint John politics for me. It was never about him, but always about the story.
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More turmoil within the PCs: Hampton candidate withdraws, quits party; another member slams social-conservative messaging & urges Higgs to change course.
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NEW: Wolastoqey chiefs in New Brunswick are shifting their land claim case to pursue the province’s largest forestry companies in a bid to reclaim title to much of their traditional territory.
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🚨🚨🚨 PC Environment Minister Gary Crossman quits cabinet, will step down soon as Hampton MLA. “My personal and political beliefs no longer align in many ways with the direction of our party and government.”
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New single-day record for COVID-19 vaccinations in New Brunswick: 10,494 more doses have been recorded on the provincial dashboard this morning.
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From a New York Times piece by
@zeynep
. I was not aware of this distinction. It is reassuring.
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Infectious disease expert Dr. Gordon Dow of NB Dept. of Health: in retrospect July 30 ending of COVID restrictions was “a mistake.”
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The premier is greeting participants in the “march for children.”
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Sometimes it’s the little things you learn from The New York Times.
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Invitations are out for a Feb. 17 event where Susan Holt of Fredericton will unveil "her fresh approach to leadership and politics as she campaigns to become the first female Liberal leader, and first female Premier for New Brunswick." She'll be the 5th declared candidate.
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Premier Blaine Higgs just got his second dose of AstraZeneca from Dr. Jennifer Russell.
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NEW: Hogan repeals Moncton district's gender identity policy; district responds by adopting a new and identical policy two days later.
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The Canadian Civil Liberties Association says it has filed its lawsuit against the government of New Brunswick on funding for abortions at Fredericton's Clinic 554.
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ZERO new cases in New Brunswick today, for the first time since Dec. 20.
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40 years ago today: Canada took full control of its Constitution and adopted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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REVEALED: How Irving's Bermuda insurance company piled up millions in offshore tax-free profits | CBC News
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From me this morning. 'Jesus was a healer': One man's rage at anti-vaccination pastors in local churches | CBC News
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NEW: As of Monday everyone in New Brunswick 18+ will be eligible for an mRNA booster if it's been five months since their second dose.
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Key facts: 1) no symptoms, i.e. vaccines work. 2) he only knows he’s positive because he went to PEI and had to be tested.
Fully vaccinated Saint John councillor tests positive for COVID-19:
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CUPE says 97 per cent of NB Liquor workers have voted to strike. They work in retail stores and the warehouse.
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Seriously, this interview should be used in j-schools to show effectiveness of open-ended interview questions such as "what do you mean?"
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First woman elected leader of the New Brunswick Liberals Susan Holt embraced by former deputy premier Aldéa Landry.
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Just minutes after Green leader David Coon predicted the PC rebellion wasn't over, Tory Andrea Anderson-Mason slams government bill limiting powers of anglophone district education councils. Says it eliminates local control, contradicting Higgs on parents' roles.
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New Brunswick rarely wins at anything but is poised to reach the pandemic-containment podium. Tomorrow I have a story looking at the many factors that may have got us there.
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Dominic Cardy says he'll vote for Liberal leader Susan Holt this fall:
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87 active cases in New Brunswick today is the lowest number since Jan. 5 and the first time it’s been below 100 since that date.
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I don't normally do events like this, but I couldn't say no to teachers working on a new Grade 10 civics course coming next year. I talked about: misinformation, online echo chambers, polarization, loss of nuance, cynicism re: institutions & why mainstream media still matter.
This week we hosted our 3rd
@ASD_West
Civic Education workshop at the Fredericton Ed Centre. A big thank you to our guest speaker
@poitrasCBC
for sharing his insights about democratic engagement to launch our evening. Another great event! One more to go in Oromocto.
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The province has released its updated flood hazard mapping to include potential impacts of climate change, and boy, some of the visuals are striking.
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After four incredible years working as Minister of Education and Early Childhood Education I have submitted my resignation to Premier Higgs. I look forward to continuing as PC member for Fredericton West-Hanwell. At some point, working style and values have to matter. More soon.
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21 Acadian and francophone organizations, including business & arts groups, unions, and associations for seniors, women, youth & others are demanding Kris Austin’s removal from a committee of PC MLAs looking at updating the Official Languages Act.
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Tomorrow on
@CBCNB
: in her first media interview, Caitlin Grogan talks about burning up Saint John political Twitter this summer, how “angry” she really is, and whether she sees herself joining IRL the system she’s critiquing. With video by
@HeenanCBC
.
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3 francophone school districts defy Hogan, stick with their policies on gender identity
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The Higgs government is loosening the province's infamous "household income policy" which groups people living together as a single unit for assessing social assistance eligibility. It will no longer apply to roommates, allowing their needs to be assessed separately.
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Former Horizon Health CEO Dr. John Dornan confirms he is seeking the N.B. Liberal nomination in Portland-Simonds, the riding where PC incumbent Trevor Holder is not reoffering. Dornan attended the Liberal policy convention in February.
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I call it a “political moment” and Caitlin Grogan has put herself in the middle of it in Saint John. Here’s the story:
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PC dissidents have submitted the required letters to ask the party's provincial council to vote on holding a leadership review of Blaine Higgs. Party president Erika Hachey confirms staff received the letters at the party office.
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FACTS: The last time the Habs made the final, Brian Mulroney was the prime minister of Canada, Carey Price was five years old and
@seguincbc
was a host at CBC New Brunswick.
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New from me this morning. Masks, delta and deadlines: Six months of mixed messages in New Brunswick's COVID fight | CBC News
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Four former presidents of the PC party have just released a statement calling on Blaine Higgs to resign as leader.
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For the first time in six weeks, the number of active cases has dropped for three days in a row.
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New Brunswick will start offering second boosters to people 50+ as of April 19.
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Holder's resignation is a big deal. He's the longest-serving MLA in the legislature and has been in the cabinet of three PC premiers. He's never been about the drama. Until last week he's been a loyal soldier, at least publicly: the ultimate party stalwart.
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Asked on
@infoamfred
about a listener suggestion he raise taxes on the “super-wealthy” such as the Irvings, Premier Higgs says the tax agreements with First Nations were creating “super-wealthy” reserves to the detriment of non-Indigenous New Brunswickers.
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More from
@fredericzalac
and me from the Paradise Papers: Irving Oil had $250-million profit when it won tax break from city and province | CBC News
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Some drama this morning at the PC Party annual meeting as 2 francophone members, including Tracadie riding president Gertrude McLaughlin, confront minister Kris Austin on his views on bilingualism. Story coming later this afternoon.
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Former Hatfield PC cabinet minister Jean-Pierre Ouellet is renewing his call for a party review of Premier Higgs's leadership. He says he has signed a letter to that effect, one of the criteria in the party constitution.
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Premier Blaine Higgs confirms mandatory vaccination rules will be put in place for all provincial public sector workplaces as well as provincially regulated facilities such as nursing homes. Unvaccinated staff will be subject to COVID testing.
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Not only is this the lowest number of active cases since Oct. 6, this is also the first time New Brunswick has reported no new cases for two days in a row since Remembrance Day.
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🥇 for our 📻 coverage of Dorothy Shephard’s June 2023 resignation. The skilled & daring
@danimccreadie
got the scrum live on air with literally seconds to spare.
@VanessaVVCBC
was as unflappable as ever. Vanessa Blanch made it possible by stickhandling a flurry of demands. ❤️🎙️
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I finally got the chance to meet Halifax epidemiologist
@WilsonKM2
in person, buy him a drink, deliver some
@CBCNB
swag & thank him for answering my countless COVID questions during the pandemic. We journalists appreciate data, science & expertise.
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Liberal leader Susan Holt announces she’ll run in Fredericton South-Silverwood in the next provincial election.
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Yesterday Finance officials provided documents showing Madawaska Maliseet First Nation received $18 million from the tax agreements, the highest last year. Forbes estimates Arthur Irving's current net worth at $1.9 billion.
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NEW: Premier Blaine Higgs says he's open to the idea of adopting Daylight Savings Time year-round if Ontario and Quebec go that route. "I think it's a golden opportunity for us to do the same thing."
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The suggestion that journalists are hoping this goes on is foolish and insulting, and unworthy of a former health minister.
Yesterday I received 543 emails and calls asking my advice on how to get out of this pandemic. Get vaccinated! Take the first one available. These articles on AstraZeneca are doing a great disservice to the public. Meanwhile the media hope to renew Covid coverage for a 4th wave
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PCs should have banned Grasseschi from running over writings on same-sex marriage, says Green candidate:
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Elected as the first Black mayor of a New Brunswick municipality:
Kassim Boumbia gagne son pari et devient maire de Shippagan.
“Je n’y allais pas pour cela, mais si j’étais élu ça allait marquer une page d’histoire étant donné que j’allais être la première personne à accéder à ce poste-là.”
@RadioCanadaInfo
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NEW: UNB law professor Nicole O’Byrne has won a 3-way nomination race to become the federal Green candidate for Fredericton and try to hold the seat for the party after Jenica Atwin’s defection to the Liberals.
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Find someone who will console you the way Macron consoles Mbappe.
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According to Liberal leadership candidate Susan Holt, the party has decided to make masks mandatory for members attending the leadership convention in person on Aug. 6.
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Extraordinary
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