Jacques Poitras
@poitrasj
CBC’s provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick. Publicly funded & independent. Author of five non-fiction books. My newsletter: ?r=o9a37&utm_medium=ios
David Coon announces he will step down as leader of the New Brunswick Green Party. He will stay as leader until the party chooses a new leader and will remain an MLA until the next election.
Conservative MP Mike Dawson has filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court, trying to force the House of Commons to let him refuse an $8,800 pay raise. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The Restigouche River, seen from a lookout in Saint-Alexis-de-Matapédia.
Two takes on Hannay: “important and still-relevant historical writings” (nble.lib.unb.ca/browse/h/jam...) vs. “energetic scribblings all but forgotten” (www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hanna...).
Visiting with a distinguished predecessor: journalist with the St. John Daily Telegraph and Morning Journal, later a “hack writer” & “the most prolific popularizer of New Brunswick history in his time.”
Former Miramichi Leader editor (and co-author of two books on Allan Legere) Rick MacLean shows us a letter Legere, using a pseudonym, sent to Rick’s wife while he was awaiting trial.
Miramichi Deputy Police Chief Randy Hansen started on the force the same month Legere escaped from jail and began killing again. His comment on Legere’s death: “Burn in hell.”
Here's the list of ideas the province put in front of university and college presidents & CEOs last week for budget cuts. Story coming soon.
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The Crown (at least in N.B.) follows the lead of its elected government in leaving X.
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt's Liberal government will no longer use X for "routine" government communications:
Great turnout for the launch of a terrific book — Pursuing the New: A Modern Graphic Design History of New Brunswick by Tanya Duffy. The exhibition is fantastic too.
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Very timely to have finished this yesterday. Five stars; recommended.
Rosa is retiring from the Great Canadian Bagel at Priestman and Regent today. She started working there in 2000, the same year I started at CBC, and has sold me a ton of bagels over a quarter century. (Chicken salad on cheddar herb — the best.)
Steven Guilbeault, May 14, 2017, during our interview for my pipeline book, on mainstream political and regulatory processes: “We thought it was better for us to participate in a deficient process while demanding changes than to not be there at all. … We don’t like the strategy of the empty chair.”
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Also in the package was this gem: that McKenna's economic development team argued that amid uncertainty over potential disintegration of Canada, "there may never be a better time" to poach jobs & employers from Quebec.
What if? Long ago, I requested through RTI, and reported on, Premier Frank McKenna's speaking notes in the event of a Yes vote in the Quebec referendum, which was 30 years ago today. I dug them out recently to show younger colleagues.