The Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick (SANB) proposes to Brian Gallant's government to take certain measures to better defend the Francophone community. The SANB will publish on Thursday a brief containing several proposals, including a proposal to increase funding for the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages. "We saw a loosening of the Gallant […more]

The Association of Francophone Teachers of New Brunswick, which represents 3,000 public school teachers, is taking the provincial government to court over what it sees as grossly insufficient funding for French schools. "We're not asking for icing on the cake, we're asking for the full meal deal. We're asking for equality," said Lucie Martin, vice […more]

The Liberal government is abandoning its constitutional court case on dual school busing and will instead leave decisions on student transportation to individual district education councils. It's a stunning reversal for a government that said last year it wanted the New Brunswick Court of Appeal to clarify whether dual bus systems for English and French […more]

OROMOCTO: Recruiters at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown are looking for some good men and women. But not ones who wear uniforms. Base commander Col. Dan MacIsaac said the huge military training facility is searching for talented individuals to fill civilian positions. MacIsaac said the base has around 900 non-military workers and a 10 […more]

At the express request of New Brunswick, sections 16 through 20 of the Charter apply to that province; however, for section 20, an important exception applies, i.e., the right to receive communications or services from any office of an institution of the Legislature or Government of New Brunswick in English or French is not subject […more]

Almost two years after the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) report Education on Wheels was released, New Brunswick decision-makers are still spinning their wheels. Few among the New Brunswick political class noticed that our report, released in January 2015, was subtitled Seizing Cost and Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Student Transportation. Instead of seizing the […more]

" Former New Brunswick Supreme Court justice Michel Bastarache says the provincial government shouldn’t have turned to the courts with a question on the constitutionality of bilingual school buses, stating it wasn’t the province’s responsibility to do so. In an interview with the Telegraph-Journal, the longtime protector of minority rights also says that he didn’t […more]

The provincial government has thrown in the towel last week in the bilingual bus folder. He gives up trying to convince the Court of Appeal to clarify its constitutional obligations. That's not all. Fredericton fate of the legs of school districts, who can now manage the school bus as they want. They are free to […more]

The Gallant Liberals may have thrown the dual-school-bus controversy back to the province's seven school districts, but that doesn't mean English and French education councils will start sharing bus routes anytime soon. On Wednesday, the government abandoned its legal position that the Constitution requires it to provide two separate school bus systems, one for anglophone […more]

Education and language are once again the focus in New Brunswick, following word on Wednesday that the provincial government is giving up on having the court rule on whether English and French students can travel on the same school buses. “The court made it pretty clear that they shouldn't be listening to this reference,” says […more]

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A former education minister is criticizing the Gallant government's plan to reintroduce a Grade 1 entry point for French immersion. Jody Carr, who served as education minister in the Alward government, said the timeframe the government has enacted doesn't give parents enough time to make a choice. "Parents right now [haven't] even had their first report card, […more]