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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ottawa's multibillion dollar increase in military spending has been met with practically no pushback from mainstream media, even as the feds shift funding from public services to American war contractors. That was one of the takeaways from a recent talk by Alex Cosh, managing editor of The Maple.

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'A massively accelerated transfer of wealth towards the global war industry'

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amid push for ‘nation-building projects,’ critics warn of ecological devastation [video] Université de Moncton prof and MiningWatch Canada advocate offer critical take on proposed Sisson mine and other mega-projects

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Amid push for ‘nation-building projects,’ critics warn of ecological devastation [video]

Every four days, a mining company in Quebec declares an accident, according to Université de Moncton philosophy professor Alain Deneault.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ottawa is "literally embracing the tech bro slogan: move fast, break things," says Avi Lewis. "We want the government to slow down and f—king fix things." The NDP leader spoke to the NB Media Co-op this week in Saint John, during his For The Many, Not The Money Tour of Atlantic Canada.

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Interview: NDP Leader Avi Lewis talks migrant labour, mega-projects, AI and military spending

Avi Lewis, the leader of the federal NDP, spoke to a crowd of about 70 people in Saint John on

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations to Anna-Leah Simon, winner of this year’s Brian Beaton Annual Prize in Journalism for Justice! 🎉 Anna-Leah has written and contributed to numerous articles and video reports for us, many of them focussing on Indigenous language revitalization efforts. nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/29/a...

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Anna-Leah Simon is this year’s winner of the Brian Beaton Annual Prize in Journalism for Justice

The winner of this year’s Brian Beaton Annual Prize in Journalism for Justice is Anna-Leah Simon. Anna-Leah has written and

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new initiative is helping parents and other community members in Elsipogtog to understand what their children are learning in Mi’kmaq immersion classes in school. The first-ever Mi’kmaq language and culture camp for adults took place this summer at Elsipogtog School.

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'We're still here, and we will always be here': Mi'kmaw language education program fosters pride

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LIVESTREAM: Rodrigue Turgeon in conversation with Alain Deneault – Hear a critical take on mining as the cure-all solution to various crises of our times. What are the downsides of more mining? Who benefits from mining? www.youtube.com/live/lh1TR2M...

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‘Mine, baby, mine.’ But, can we mine our way out of our crises?

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Children and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds in New Brunswick are less likely than average to eat breakfast daily, but more likely than average to be victims of bullying and to experience loneliness, according to newly published survey results from the New Brunswick Health Council.

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Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CBS correspondent at the UN misremembers Trump's remarks: he said he could 'humiliate Iran' -- he stumbles over his words, laughs, the anchor corrects him: no, he said he could 'annihilate Iran.' Both laugh. Correspondent: 'it's been a long morning.' Footage of explosions shown on the splitscreen.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump just announced at the UN that it's not artificial intelligence, it's "super intelligence" and welcomed us all to the "world of super intelligence"

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Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D. @tlknoell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Entire generations have been destroyed because of the attacks on Gaza. They should be named and known so they are seen and remembered.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Members of the community at UNB Saint John spent days reading the names of every child murdered in the Gaza genocide. All local MPs and MLAs were invited. Not one showed up. No mainstream media covered it. nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/18/n...

There was no media coverage, Houlahan said.
Every MP and MLA in the province was invited to attend, along with Mayor Donna Reardon and all members of Saint John city council, along with UNB’s board of governors and senior administrators, according to Houlahan.
“None of the MLAs, none of the MPs, none of the city council, none of the board of governors, none of the senior admin from the university even responded, let alone accepted the invitation,” Houlahan said.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People who took part in the reading included Saint John resident Helmi Alfarra, who was born and raised in the Gaza Strip. “I lost 280 members of my family in this genocide, including my uncle and his nine children... In the ‘Say Their Names’ list there were 103 from my family."

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Names of more than 21,600 children in Gaza killed in Israeli attacks read aloud

Volunteers gathered in Saint John recently to read out the names of more than 21,600 children killed during Israel's prolonged

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So far this year, the seafood processing industry has brought in 2,360 migrant workers. That’s roughly 68 per cent of all migrant workers in the province. It’s the fifth consecutive year that the seafood processing industry has brought in upwards of 2,000 workers.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The news comes ahead of rallies planned in 11 cities across the country this weekend, coordinated by the Migrant Rights Network, to mark Parliament’s return for the fall sitting. Organizers are focussing on migrant workers’ essential contributions to the economy and day-to-day struggles they face.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Migrant workers are being dismissed from jobs in N.B.'s seafood industry after working for just a few weeks, with their employer blaming the layoffs on tariffs, but then hiring new workers almost immediately afterwards, according one advocate. nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/17/m...

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Migrant labour layoffs attributed to tariffs followed by new hiring raise questions about seafood sector

Temporary foreign workers are being dismissed from jobs in New Brunswick's seafood industry after working for just a few weeks,

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*preliminarily Q3 figures. Full year was 205

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For TFWs, being classified as "vulnerable" means you have access to an open work permit, unlike other TFWs who are legally bound to their employer. So far this year 80 workers in NB have been been granted open work permits under the federal program for “vulnerable workers who are victims of abuse.”

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Revisiting this article I wrote last year on preliminary figures showing that a record-breaking number of temporary foreign workers in NB (170) had been deemed “vulnerable” by immigration authorities, which basically means they had suffered workplace abuse. It turns out the final number was 205.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My take is that yes it's often nasty and malicious but there are also legitimate journalistic reasons for taking a photo without asking someone's permission, and ways to do so that respect their dignity. The problem requires cultural change, and it can't be addressed thru criminal law.

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

‘Mine, baby, mine.’ But, can we mine our way out of our crises? Rodrigue Turgeon in conversation with Alain Deneault When: Sept. 24, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. AT Where: Ted Daigle Auditorium, Edmund Casey Hall, St. Thomas University, 51 Dineen Dr., Fredericton Livestream: youtube.com/@nbmediacoop/streams

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‘Mine, baby, mine.’ But, can we mine our way out of our crises?

Rodrigue Turgeon in conversation with Alain Deneault More mines – lithium, copper, nickel, tungsten, etc. - are being pitched as the

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The US-based company behind a new gas-burning power plant will be allowed to buy offsets to meet a "net zero by 2050" condition. Bev Gingras, executive director of the Conservation Council of NB, said offsets should be "a tightly limited last resort for genuinely unavoidable residual emissions.”

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“I can assure you that right now we are on target with our net zero objectives,” the Environment Minister told reporters recently. In fact, a report published by the govt one week earlier says N.B. is "not currently on track to achieve net zero emissions by 2050." nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/12/e...

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Environment Minister issues clarification after saying province ‘on target’ with climate goals

How can a fossil fuel burning power plant be expected to operate while meeting a "net zero" emissions requirement? That's

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Sarah Kardash 🍉 @kardashsarah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@nbmediacoop.bsky.social 17th AGM on September 23 at 6pm AT. Keynote address by Alex Cosh of @readthemaple.com on the media and Carney’s military spending. 7pm AT. Register for the zoom links to AGM and/or Keynote.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ugh. I'm logging off -- get back to me when you've grown enough of a backbone to post under your own name

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ah an article co-authored by someone involved in the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Well, he certainly has a certain expertise in war crime from first-hand experience I suppose. For the record, here's the IAGS's response to the noise about its Gaza resolution: genocidescholars.org/reactions-to...

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Reactions to IAGS resolution on Gaza

Since the IAGS Gaza Resolution passed, there has been very broad interest by other scholars, from media outlets worldwide (e.g. here, here, here, here, and here), as well as at the United Nations. Man...

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't know, I'm not a genocide scholar. Maybe you should ask one of the members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars who passed this resolution last year (which acknowledges 10/7 just like I have been doing throughout this whole fucking convo) genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I imagine that proportionality will be central to the case at the ICC. And what if they come down against Netanyahu and Gallant? Will you just whine about the court being biased against Israel?

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

WTF are you talking about? I raised the issue of proportionality. My point was that the scale of death and destruction is obviously disproportionate. That's my assessment -- but I guess you can look at a concentration camp full of amputees, yawn, shrug and say "war is hell."

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"the charge" - you mean genocide. There is a warrant for Netanyahu's arrest for "war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts"

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Maybe the ICC will answer that question for you. www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne...

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Okay you can just baldly deny these things as if you are working comms for the IDF. But if you actually care about legality you have to account for proportionality -- we can all see with our eyes the scale of the death and destruction affecting civilians and civilian infrastructure.

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What do you want? I acknowledge that it happened. The slaughter of civilians sickens me. That doesn't mean Israel is justified in everything and anything that it does in response. What about the report that Netanyanu let it happen? Or the fact that Gaza was and remains an open air prison?

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Fred Burrill @fburrill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What is the UNB GSA for, if not to stand up for graduate students?

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They differentiate the women and children killed. You haven't addressed the fact that in past few days alone Israel killed an 8-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You ignore the evidence that Israel's often indiscriminate bombing campaign likely killed many of the hostages -- it wasn't about saving them. You also overlook the news that Netanyahu didn't act on warnings of an attack - which would have at least prevented Nova Fest from being extended to Oct. 7!

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You go on and on about Oct. 7 -- it was three years ago. Sinwar is dead. Israel has collectively punished every man, woman and child in Gaza, destroyed its infrastucture, killed or injured 10% of the population. When will you be satisfied? costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/HumanT...

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The Human Toll of the Gaza War: Direct and Indirect Death from 7 October 2023 to 3 October 2025

Since October 7, 2023, over ten percent of the population of Gaza has been directly killed or injured in two years of Israel’s war in Gaza. In addition, writes political scientist Neta Crawford (Co-Fo...

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If (genocidal) war is hell why not try to stop innocent people from experiencing it? Why not try to stop innocent children from being maimed and killed? Instead you seem to be actively justifying it. nbmediacoop.org/2025/10/01/n...

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

^^^ i meant to send an image of a child amputee but here's another example of the horror that you seem to believe is somehow justified

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't think that Netanyahu ever intended to rescue the hostages. He ignored warnings that the attack was coming — it was a pretext for him to launch a genocidal war of vengeance, to deliberately inflict "conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

International law? Just the other day, Israeli strikes killed an 8-year-old girl, Wafaa Akila, and a 3-year-old boy, Saadi Ghalia, in Gaza. "Rescuing hostages and fighting ppl who took them"? The UN reports that Israel has killed now 20,000+ children. news.un.org/en/story/202...

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David Gordon Koch @davidgordonkoch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In this analogy, the State of Israel is the bully, which is pummelling its victim, the Gaza Strip. The latter includes all the Palestinian civilian casualties, not the mention the Israeli hostages that were killed in Israeli strikes. Hope that helps clarify. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

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Israel says 'high probability' its own airstrike killed 3 hostages in Gaza last November

The Israeli army announced the conclusions of its investigation into the deaths of Cpl. Nik Beizer, Sgt. Ron Sherman and Elia Toledano, who were kidnapped in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Their bodies were re...

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