Thinking Local, Acting Global: NB & Canada's Budget 2025

About this episode

The episode discusses New Brunswick's first budget under the Carney government and the recent AGM of the Progressive Conservative Party.

After 2 weeks of running all over the place, we are back to share some insight and thoughts, and hopefully spark some discussions around the Carney government's first budget. We will also delve into the inside story of the Progressive Conservative Party of NB's most recent AGM and talk about the leadership contestents that are vying for the leadership. Joanna get's excited about the recent election of Zohran Mamdani and Brent will go on about the recent 2 billion dollar data centre project right here in SJ. Let's get into it #NBpoli world.

People in this episode

Hosts: Joanna Killen, Brent Harris

Topics covered

• New Brunswick politics
• Canada's budget
• Progressive Conservative Party
• leadership contest
• data centre project
• local elections

Keywords

• New Brunswick
• budget 2025
• Carney government
• Progressive Conservative Party
• Zohran Mamdani
• data centre project
• politics
• leadership contest

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Progressive Conservative Party of NB, Carney government

Places: SJ

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