Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of New Brunswick"

Province says it’s prioritized changing derogatory place names, but has budgeted less than $8,000 for it  CBC News: When elders from Chief Allan Polchies’s community see place names with derogatory language, it’s triggering for them, he says. At least seven locations across the province bear the name of a racist and misogynistic term used against Indigenous women...

Wolastoqey leaders have long called for the New Brunswick river to be renamed Wolastoq CBC News: The chief of Sitansisk, or St. Mary’s First Nation, says Manju Varma’s recommendation to rename a historic New Brunswick river the Wolastoq Saint John is “tone deaf.”    Varma, New Brunswick’s commissioner of systemic racism, released her report Friday, and the name change was one...