Forest NB visits Finland
In October 2024, Forest NB led a dynamic innovation tour to Finland, a journey focused on enhancing collaborative efforts to grow a strong future for communities across New Brunswick through sustainable forestry. This visit serves not only as a cultural exchange – but a strategic initiative to learn from Finland’s renowned forestry practices. The attendees…
Read MoreA look back at the Christmas Mountain Blowdown of 1994
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the historic Christmas Mountain Blowdown. These 10 mountains, named in 1964 as North Pole Mountain, Mount Saint Nicholas, and the eight famous reindeer (with the notable exception of poor Rudolph), are located approximately 60km west-northwest of Miramichi. In the early afternoon of November 7th, 1994, sustained high winds exceeding…
Read MoreLetter: Reality Check: New Brunswick’s Forest Products Industry is Vital to the Province
New Brunswick’s forest products industry employs more than 24,000 New Brunswickers (direct and indirect jobs) and encompasses more than 600 businesses, including small and medium sized and Indigenous-owned businesses. Tax revenues, employment, and spinoff businesses generated by the forest sector are the basis for rural economic sustainability for many New Brunswick communities. Annually, the sector…
Read MoreStatement on the impacts of rail strikes on NB’s forest sector
Rail disruption will have crippling impacts to an already challenged forest sector in New Brunswick, and across Canada. Prolonged stoppages of rail service will have devastating impacts on many critical sectors in New Brunswick, driving up prices and exacerbating affordability challenges, and jeopardizing the livelihoods of thousands of New Brunswick workers. The disruption will almost…
Read MoreResponsibility and the example we set: a reflection on recent travels.
I was fortunate enough to have recently visited Kenya and Tanzania and since returning have been reflecting on privilege and perspective. I suppose the strikingly obvious thing to precipitate these reflections is the economic disparity, with Tanzania and Kenya ranked 31 and 51, respectively, on Global Finance’s list of the world’s poorest countries. Canada is…
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