Jacques Poitras

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Jacques Poitras

Holt Liberals embrace new nuclear plant, despite cost concerns - Federal minister says Ottawa will do ‘whatever we can’ to support new N.B. reactor

The Holt government is embracing a proposal for more nuclear power in New Brunswick, jumping ahead of its own timeline for evaluating the idea despite N.B. Power’s concerns about the cost to ratepayers. At the release of a new federal nuclear strategy on Monday, Energy Minister René Legacy said that the technology “most assuredly will be part of our future.”...

Jacques Poitras

The Eastern Energy Partnership: Atlantic Canada's big pitch for Carney's nation-building list

Premiers want projects to head off electricity crunch and help tie Canada together. On a gravel road by the side of the Trans-Canada Highway, New Brunswick's natural resources minister, John Herron, gazes down a long clearing cut through the forest. He sees poetry — national poetry, that is. Herron hopes one of New Brunswick's proposed "projects of national interest" will...

Jacques Poitras

Veteran Miramichi Conservative says MP Jake Stewart can't win

A two-time federal Conservative candidate in Miramichi says he doesn't think current party MP Jake Stewart can win again in a federal election that is expected to start within weeks. Mike Morrison says he has contacted the office of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to advise them of what's happening but has had no response.

Jacques Poitras

Miramichi CPC MP Jake Stewart faces party turmoil ahead of election

Financial agent quits, office closes, House of Commons sends warning to ex-staffer. A New Brunswick Conservative MP running for re-election this year is losing some of his supporters after a falling out with former staffers and resignations from the local party organization. Jake Stewart, the MP for Miramichi-Grand Lake, recently had a House of Commons lawyer send a cease-and-desist letter...

Jacques Poitras

NB PCs gear up for election with wave of candidate nominations

After backing away from a possible early election call last fall, New Brunswick's governing Progressive Conservatives are accelerating their preparations for a 2024 campaign. The party has chosen two candidates since New Year's Day and has scheduled eight more nominating conventions in January, all of them in redrawn ridings where PC incumbent MLAs are expected to run again.