Hannah Fulton Johnston, executive director of the New Brunswick Liberal Association, condemned Higgs’s anecdote in a statement issued on Friday in which she called the joke distasteful. “The New Brunswick Liberal Association is calling on Blaine Higgs to apologize for this comment,” it reads.

By Andrew Nurse, Mount Allison University; The Conversation The Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), a right-leaning lobbying group that describes itself as pro-life, recently mailed flyers to 160,000 New Brunswick homes

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs has started his campaign for re-election with the lowest approval rating of any premier in the country, according to a new survey.

A look at Blaine Higgs, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. Born: March 1, 1954. Early years: The son of a customs officer, he grew up in Forest City, N.B., near the Canada-U.

Politics: Joined the Green Party of Canada in May 2006 and was elected leader of the New Brunswick Green Party in September 2012. Won a seat in the legislature in 2014 — a first