This is New Brunswick

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Often overlooked, sometimes misunderstood, but endlessly fascinating, New Brunswick is a province full of stories. Every week host Khalil Akhtar takes a look at life in the changing province, and unpacks the issues that matter to the people that live and work here. What is New Brunswick? This is New Brunswick. Every Thursday.

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Best of N.B.: What are the most romantic places in the province?

It’s a province more known for ragged beauty than its chiseled good looks, but some places do take your breath away. Let’s rank ‘em, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

20 min
FEB 5

NB Power & Politics: The Tantramar gas plant

Reporter Erica Butler takes a closer look at the controversial proposal to build a billion dollar power plant in rural Tantramar and asks, do we even need it?

23 min
JAN 29

From tents to transitional housing: homelessness relief, neighbourhood tension

Transitional housing offers a way off the street for the growing number of homeless people. But these sites are upsetting some neighbours who worry about who is moving in. We’ll visit a site in Saint John, and meet one of the people who lives there.

22 min
JAN 22

Why are we so bad at the bus?

Host Khalil Akhtar rides the bus in Moncton and asks whether our growing cities will hit a tipping point that makes transit faster and more convenient.

18 min
JAN 15

Who decided the Sisson Mine is a good idea?

The story behind the political push for a giant mine in a pristine watershed. CBC provincial affairs reporter Jacques Poitras takes us to the Nashwaak River to find out what's at stake if one of Carney's nation-building projects goes ahead.

20 min
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Introducing: This is New Brunswick

Gritty, bilingual, growing, changing...This is New Brunswick. Here's your introduction to the podcast that takes you from the kitchen party to the cabinet meeting, diving deep behind the headlines to bring you the New Brunswick stories everyone is talking about.

2 min

TRAILER

Introducing: This is New Brunswick

Gritty, bilingual, growing, changing...This is New Brunswick. Here's your introduction to the podcast that takes you from the kitchen party to the cabinet meeting, diving deep behind the headlines to bring you the New Brunswick stories everyone is talking about.

Jan 5

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Often overlooked, sometimes misunderstood, but endlessly fascinating, New Brunswick is a province full of stories. Every week host Khalil Akhtar takes a look at life in the changing province, and unpacks the issues that matter to the people that live and work here. What is New Brunswick? This is New Brunswick. Every Thursday.