FREDERICTON The New Brunswick minister responsible for local governance reform is looking to citizens for their input on changes they d like to see in their community. Daniel Allain says there are too many local governments right now, and he believes not all residents are getting equal access to services because of where they live. I think the time has come that we need reform, he said during a news conference Tuesday. It s been 60 years that we haven t touched it. We ve had over 25 studies. Right now, the province is made up of: 8 cities, which include 37 per cent of the total population
Municipales: toujours aucun encadrement pour les dépenses électorales
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Population continues to move from rural to urban areas of N B
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Despite pandemic costs, at least 19 municipalities didn t apply for COVID relief money
So far, 19 municipalities in New Brunswick have decided not to apply for aid after realizing the decisions they had to make to balance their budgets would make them ineligible under the province s rules. Another 38 are unaccounted for, and Friday is the deadline.
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66 communities asked for federal aid, the province denied one town s claim, and 38 communities unaccounted for
Posted: Jan 15, 2021 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 15
Sackville hoped for $290,000 from the federal rescue package for municipalities but the province denied the claim.(Shane Magee/CBC)
HALIFAX With many municipalities in New Brunswick pushing for a provincial ban on plastic bags since 2019, the province still hasn’t said if it plans to enact a ban ahead of the federal government’s plan at the end of the year. So far, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia have enacted a plastic bag ban. In New Brunswick, some communities have made the jump themselves, including Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview, which enacted their own plastic bag ban on Oct. 1, 2020. “I know that P.E.I. had done a provincial ban already and we felt that it was really the time to act,” said Moncton Environmental Planning and Management Director Elaine Aucoin.