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New: The association representing grad students at the University of New Brunswick has cited “privacy reasons” for its silence about the case of a Palestinian scholar who remains trapped in the Gaza Strip after being accepted into UNB’s Master of Computer Science program.

Grad student association cites ‘privacy reasons’ for silence about Palestinian scholar trapped in GazaThe association representing grad students at the University of New Brunswick has cited "privacy reasons" for its silence about thenbmediacoop.org

Contrast this with the National Post, which has deep enough pockets to absorb legal bills and the cost of a settlement after smearing a pro-Palestine activist with writing that they admit was defamatory. nbmediacoop.org/2026/07/27/n...

New Brunswick prof reaches settlement with National Post over ‘defamatory’ reporting about Palestine solidarity actiA University of New Brunswick professor who travelled to Egypt last year for the Global March to Gaza has agreednbmediacoop.org

Best case scenario, I guess the judge will call it a frivolous lawsuit and order the plaintiff to pay The Grind's expenses, but for now this looks like an example of lawfare as an existential threat to indie media.

Tristin Hopper wrote that Prof. Houlahan had "spent weeks... ignoring an eviction order to maintain a 'Free Gaza' encampment on university property." In fact there was no "eviction order" - campus security had issued a trespass notice, which the faculty union successfully grieved.

NEW: The National Post has been forced to issue a 150-word correction stating that an article published last year contained a 'defamatory' assertion about University of New Brunswick prof Jeff Houlahan and his Palestine solidarity activism. nbmediacoop.org/2026/07/27/n...

New Brunswick prof reaches settlement with National Post over ‘defamatory’ reporting about Palestine solidarity actiA University of New Brunswick professor who travelled to Egypt last year for the Global March to Gaza has agreednbmediacoop.org

New from me: Advocates have been urging Ottawa to evacuate students like Baraa from the Gaza Strip as the genocide continues. Just today, two more people were reportedly killed in Israeli strikes on the the al-Mawasi displacement camp, where he is living.

Bill C-34 lets social media companies off the hook, only requiring them to ensure that users are “old enough to play in their dirty playpen as opposed to cleaning it up for everyone,” says Mount Allison University sociologist Erin Steuter.

Federal social media bill threatens to undermine privacy rights, alienate youth: critics [audio]The federal government’s newly tabled Digital Safety Act is meant to protect children from harmful influences online, including violent extremistsnbmediacoop.org

Mind boggling to me that CBC's flagship radio news broadcast can do a glowing report about how a generic version of Ozempic will save people money, while managing to completely omit any mention of the Pharmacare Act, which the Liberal govt has quietly abandoned.

The federal govt has handed a $90,000 fine to Pêcheries LeBreton, a lobster processing company that operates on the Acadian Peninsula, over abusive workplace conditions for temporary foreign workers. nbmediacoop.org/2026/04/29/n...

New Brunswick seafood processor fined $90K over workplace conditions for migrant workersThe federal government has handed a $90,000 fine to Pêcheries LeBreton over insufficient efforts to prevent abusive workplace conditions fornbmediacoop.org

My latest for the @nbmediacoop.bsky.social

Patrice had also just stepped into the role of director and was in a ceremony at the time of the shooting. Afterwards, she said, “I look at my phone and all I see was Iggy was shot by the RCMP.” The police only called her team after the shooting to help with crowd control.