Message from the NB Green Party
Wayne Sabine 2014 is an election year in New Brunswick. Election time is basically the only time the citizens have any say in the direction their province will head in the next four years. It is our responsibility as eligible voters to seriously look at the various party platforms...
The Way Ahead for New Brunswick…
DAVID COON COMMENTARY 02 Dec 2013 How do we build this new green economy? We must explicitly choose the exit ramp off the highway to ruin, for the road that leads to sustainability and fairness. The Green Party is the party of hope, community self-reliance, and transformation. The...
Note From the New Brunswick Green Party
In his book “The Unsettling of America”, first published in 1977, Wendell Berry states: “No rational person can see how using up the topsoil or the fossil fuels as quickly as possible can provide greater security for the future; but if enough wealth and power can conjure up the...
NB Green Party Update
Continuing on the theme of building self-reliant communities, this column will expound on the New Brunswick Green Party’s vision re the social economy. Research in Canada has shown that the approach of Community Economic Development (CED) in which the community participation in both governance and implementation of the...
Note from the NB Green Party
It seems that in political and economic circles rural communities are relics of the past. The Green Party believes that our future depends on self- reliant rural communities as well as vibrant urban centers. We must learn to co-exist because quite frankly our future well- being depends on it....
New Brunswick Green Party
“It’s all about the next generation” and “Getting to a sustainable future” are phrases which basically define the corner stone on which the New Brunswick Green Party is built. It doesn’t take long to discover that there are no easy or quick fixes to decades of various Government decisions...
From the New Brunswick Green Party
Many of society’s most vulnerable people have been left in a ‘fragile’ state by the economic downturn and cuts to public services and benefits, according to a recent study conducted in the UK. This study focused on three groups: disabled residents and care givers, young people, and families on...
Note from the NB Green Party
We have probably all heard the saying ” an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. This doubly applies to our health and consequently our health care system. The need to reduce the amount of tax dollars spent on health care in this Province, along with the...
A Note from the New Brunswick Green Party
We have had over 25 years of “trickle-down economics” or “Reaganomics” which basically gave tax breaks to the wealthy on the theory that they would invest the extra money in the economy and that money would trickle down to those on the low end of the economic scale. We...
From the New Brunswick Green Party:
For those who are satisfied with the way this Province is and has been run, please feel free to skip over this article. For those who are interested in exploring something different, then maybe this will be of interest to you. AS Einstein said ” insanity is doing things...