Premier Blaine Higgs is already acknowledging he may not be able to make good on a threat to defy the federal government’s carbon-tax legislation by blocking its collection in New Brunswick.
The premiers of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have reluctantly agreed to apply for shared federal funding to shore up the Chignecto Isthmus, a key transportation corridor threatened by climate change.
A frustrated public safety minister has accused a Green MLA of being “a shill for organized crime” after he held up amendments to a law that lets authorities push accused drug dealers out of neighbourhoods without criminal convictions.