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Mayworks Fredericton returns to celebrate art and the working class

CCNB Blog, Feature, Webinars & Events / Corey Robichaud

The Mayworks Festival kicks off this week in Fredericton. The Fredericton District Labour Council started the tradition of marking May Day, International Workers’ Day, with a Mayworks Festival three years ago. Mayworks Festivals, long-running annual events in cities such as Toronto and Halifax, bring workers and artists together to celebrate the use of art in pursuits to […]

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Your love letters to our rivers, lakes, streams – A Serenade to Saltwater

CCNB Blog, Feature / Corey Robichaud

This #WaterWednesday, we have a special musical treat for you. Last week, Frantically Atlantic, Don Rigley and Michelle Daigle, a local musical duo based in Fredericton, dropped into Conserver House to show us two new songs they’d written during their first musical tour of New Brunswick. These songs capture the feeling of love and longing

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Spring is in the air! No better time to read our latest edition of EcoAlert, Spring 2017

CCNB Blog, Feature / Corey Robichaud

This special water edition of EcoAlert dives into New Brunswick’s water with a look at our water classification program and new discussions on the Fisheries Act, and introduces some of the province’s local watershed groups. In this issue: • Satelite data show Miramichi watershed forest loss • water classification back on the table? • Map of New Brunswick’s

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Preparing a feast for our feathered friends: Highlights from our March Birdfeeder Workshop

CCNB Blog, Feature / Samantha Phillips

In like a lion, out like a lamb…or a chickadee? March certainly brought us some mighty cold days with it, but the frosty weather didn’t deter the many bird enthusiasts who attended the birdfeeder workshop at the Conserver House on March 4. Our Learning Outside project coordinator, Nadine Ives, led the workshop where I

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Conservation Council’s recommendations on how to respond to ice storms

CCNB Blog, Feature, Webinars & Events / Corey Robichaud

Following the January ice storm that left over 130,000 New Brunswickers without power, the province has announced public meetings allowing participants to share their experiences and ideas on the response to the January ice storm will take place between April 3 to 6 in Bas-Caraquet, Lamèque, Miramichi, Richibucto, and Tracadie. NOTICE! Participants that want to can also share

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Beware of anyone who tells you they have a ‘world leading’ oil spill response

Feature / Corey Robichaud

One of our favorite Canadian environmental reporters, Emma Gilchrist, posted an article on DeSmog Canada’s online news site this week that pokes holes in any government or company’s claims that they know how to clean up an oil spill. Gilchrist interviewed Dr. Riki Ott, a marine biologist and once a Prince William Sound, Alaska, commercial

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Climate change a pressing reality for St. John river – here’s how!

CCNB Blog, Feature, Freshwater Protection / Emily Mcphee

A new report warns increased ice-jam flooding, contaminated well fields and sewage overflows are possibilities arising from climate change on the St. John river. Senior freshwater specialist Simon Mitchell from the World Wildlife Fund has been working with communities along the Upper St. John River Valley including Woodstock, Hartland and Florenceville-Bristol, identifying key risks and potential

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Map of migrating monarch butterflies signals need for cross-continental conservation efforts

CCNB Blog, Feature / Corey Robichaud

A new report by University of Guelph researchers shows that the monarch butterflies seen in New Brunswick in late summer become part of the famed Monarchs migration from North America to their overwintering sites in Mexico. While it was previously thought that a vast majority of the butterflies traveled from the American Midwest region, a

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What a year! Progress made on key issues in 2016

CCNB Blog, Feature / Emily Mcphee

This past year, CCNB made bigger waves than even our beautiful Bay of Fundy could muster! None of it would have been possible without your support. It’s people like you that help CCNB find practical solutions to help governments, businesses and families protect our air, water, land and forests. Here are just a few of

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Recycle old cellphones and batteries at the Conservation Council

CCNB Blog, Feature / Emily Mcphee

New year, new cell phone? Wondering what to do with your old one? Don’t worry, we can recycle it! Start 2017 on a green foot and pop by the Conservation Council’s Fredericton office at 180 St. John Street and drop off your old cell phone or batteries in our convenient Call2Recycle box! It’s easy –

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Mayworks Fredericton returns to celebrate art and the working class

Your love letters to our rivers, lakes, streams – A Serenade to Saltwater

Spring is in the air! No better time to read our latest edition of EcoAlert, Spring 2017

Preparing a feast for our feathered friends: Highlights from our March Birdfeeder Workshop

Conservation Council’s recommendations on how to respond to ice storms

Beware of anyone who tells you they have a ‘world leading’ oil spill response

Climate change a pressing reality for St. John river – here’s how!

Map of migrating monarch butterflies signals need for cross-continental conservation efforts

What a year! Progress made on key issues in 2016

Recycle old cellphones and batteries at the Conservation Council

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