A closer look at Doug Ford's chief of staff, and his lobbying company Last week, Global News brought Ford’s greenbelt scandal back to the front burner by reporting on Patrick Sackville’s use of priva...

A closer look at Doug Ford's chief of staff, and his lobbying company Last week, Global News brought Ford’s greenbelt scandal back to the front burner by reporting on Patrick Sackville’s use of priva...

About 120 demonstrators waved to passing traffic on the TransCanada highway and on Sackville’s Main Street Thursday in the latest

What started as a backyard project to generate a little extra cash during the pandemic has evolved into the massive success that is Lower Sackville's Casa di Stefano.

What started as a backyard project to generate a little extra cash during the pandemic has evolved into the massive success that is Lower Sackville's Casa di Stefano.

What started as a backyard project to generate a little extra cash during the pandemic has evolved into the massive success that is Lower Sackville's Casa di Stefano.

“Hey, hey USA take your plant and go away,” about 40 demonstrators chanted as they marched across Sackville’s main intersection

“Hey, hey USA take your plant and go away,” about 40 demonstrators chanted as they marched across Sackville’s main intersection at Bridge and Main on Wednesday. “No gas plant, no gas plant!” they shouted as motorists stopped at the lights honked in support. Then, the marchers gathered on sidewalks waiting for the walk signal so they could set off again across the streets chanting, “Clear air, clean water, NB Power’s got to do better.” The two-hour, Earth Day demonstration, organized by the Tantramar chapter of Seniors for Climate, was their latest salvo in the campaign against the proposed 500 MW gas/diesel generating plant in Centre Village. If New Brunswick’s Energy & Utilities Board gives its approval, the plant would be built and operated by the big American company PROENERGY under a 25-year, $3.5 billion contract with NB Power. It would burn fracked gas piped in from the States backed up by diesel likely trucked in from the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John. After the march, people gathered at Café Tintamarre in Sackville’s Visitor Information Centre for a tea party and climate chat. It ended with the presentation of an award for the 2026 Tantramar Environmental Citizen of the Year. “You know, I grew up here in Sackville, but moved away, and I was away for 40-some years before I moved home,” said master of ceremonies Logan Atkinson. He explained that he bought a big house with a wrap-around veranda, its open underside enclosed with lattice. “First summer I was home, walking around my house in the morning, and sure enough, there’s a skunk caught in the latticework,” Atkinson said. “And I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is way beyond my competence, I can guarantee you that,'” he added as the audience laughed. Atkinson said he consulted the “experts” on Facebook who told him to call the Atlantic Wildlife Institute in Cookville. Within 30-minutes, Atkinson said, Barry Rothfuss, AWI’s executive director had called him back. “I followed his instructions to a tee, and I’m standing here to tell the tale,” he said before announcing that this year’s award would be going to both Barry Rothfuss and his partner Pam Novak for their “stewardship of this land.” Aside from their work in rescuing wildlife and mitigating harms to the environment, Rothfuss and Novak established the Protect the Chignecto Isthmus Coalition last year to lead the opposition to the proposed gas plant. Barry Rothfuss & Pam Novak of AWI with the 2026 Environmental Citizen of the Year trophy “It’s a teapot,” a smiling Novak said pointing to the trophy. “This is just perfect.” She added that anyone in the room could have won the award. “The one thing that the gas plant has done — this nasty, little, dirty, peaker plant that we keep calling it, is bring us all back together,” she said. “We need to fight this because everybody who’s sitting in this room, you’re here because you care about your neighbours, you care about your own health, you care about your environment and you care about your community.” “The environmental degradation that comes along with these types of developments is massive, right from the construction phase, to the operational phase, to the decommissioning,” Rothfuss said. “So, let’s keep going. Let’s keep fighting.”

The Ford government has been engaged in a months-long freedom of information appeal with Global News over text conversations on Patrick Sackville's phone.

A closer look at Doug Ford's chief of staff, and his lobbying company Last week, Global News brought Ford’s greenbelt scandal back to the front burner by reporting on Patrick Sackville’s use of priva...

Fredericton’s St. Thomas University could cease to exist and Sackville’s Mount Allison University could be privatized under scenarios the Holt government is considering for cuts to post-secondary educ...

Fredericton’s St. Thomas University could cease to exist and Sackville’s Mount Allison University could be privatized under scenarios the Holt government is considering for cuts to post-secondary educ...

Fredericton’s St. Thomas University could cease to exist and Sackville’s Mount Allison University could be privatized under scenarios the Holt government is considering for cuts to post-secondary educ...