Following significant damage from Nova Scotia’s storm over the weekend, the only rail service connecting the province with the rest of Canada has been interrupted.
While New Brunswick added 400 jobs last month, many were part-time positions. In total, 1,000 full-time positions were lost and 1,400 part-time ones were created, bringing the unemployment rate up 8.9 percent to 9.2 percent in March, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.
The employment picture varied from city to city. Saint John’s unemployment rate dropped from 12.2 to 10.9 between February and March. Employment rose by 200 to a total of 62,800 employed.
In Moncton, unemployment rose from 8.1 to 8.5 percent between February and March. Employment rose by 300 to a total of 80,500 employed.
In the central region of the province that includes Fredericton, the unemployment rate rose from 7.0 to 7.5. Employment dropped by 700 to a total of 68,800. This region’s numbers do not account for seasonal employment.
It takes years sometimes for curriculum review and modification to take place … this is something in the interim that teachers could access quickly, said Noreiga-Mundaroy.
But Education Minister Dominic Cardy said there are no plans to implement BLM Fredericton s curriculum alongside the current social studies curriculum.
Cardy said that s because he wants curriculum changes across all subjects.
He said he wants to move away from the current system, which sees outcomes for students at the end of each grade, to one where students are taught everything by the time they graduate, with less attention paid to when certain subjects are taught.
ST. STEPHEN, N.B. While New Brunswick s COVID-19 numbers remain high, provincial health officials are worried about a worsening pandemic situation in the neighbouring U.S. state of Maine. Our neighbour s houses are on fire and the hot embers are flying onto our roof, said Dr. Jennifer Russell, New Brunswick s Chief Medical Officer of Health, at a news conference on Thursday. If we don t take necessary actions to keep this fire at bay it will engulf us as well. Dr. Russell said there were over 1,000 active cases in Maine s Washington and Aroostook Counties, which both border western New Brunswick.