Dozens of organizations from across Canada, including Chroma NB and Alter Acadie from New Brunswick, travelled to Ottawa this month to campaign for a renewed and expanded 2SLGBTQ+ action plan.
Spring looms like a cliff for advocacy groups in New Brunswick
Raechel Huizinga · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 25, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
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Hadeel Ibrahim, executive director of Chroma NB in Saint John, said that without new funding, progress made by 2SLGBTQ+ groups over the past five years could be lost. (Roger Cosman/CBC)
To Alex Arseneau, it seems an 2SLGBTQ+ organization closes its doors every week.
As the executive director of Alter Acadie, a francophone advocacy group based in Moncton, he points to a national charity his group partnered with as the latest example.
ARC Foundation is winding down in part because of financial pressure after nearly two decades of making K-12 education inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
It’s work the two groups pursued together in New Brunswick’s francophone schools.
“Losing them is huge,” he said. “It’s going to have a huge impact,
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