‘Another affront to minimum wage workers’: 5 cent increase raises questions about N.B. minimum wage

A minor increase to New Brunswick’s minimum wage has some people raising questions about what should be done to earn a liveable wage. (Photo: Josh Appel/Unsplash)

FREDERICTON — When fourth-year St. Thomas University student Xavier von Gröning heard the New Brunswick government would only increase its minimum wage by five cents, he thought it was a joke.

The English and history major, who works as a courier for Brunswick News Inc., said he spent five years…