The Acadian Society of New Brunswick worries the province’s new majority PC government could deepen the language divide.

A group of Francophone nurses say students can get nursing education in English or French, but the final registration exam favours English students.

ARCf hosted an outdoor event in Saint John to mark the occasion this year, where folks could enjoy live Acadian music from chalk-drawn social distancing bubbles, from their cars or from home via livestream.

Black spray paint obscured the French portion of the bilingual stop signs in Calgary's historic Mission district.

Kris Austin says the People's Alliance of New Brunswick is more interested in ending duality, what he calls the segregation of French and English speakers into two systems.

"We're just in the dark, we're really anxious, we don't know what's going to happen."

Education minister Dominic Cardy said program details have yet to be determined, but that it will be tested at a dozen volunteer schools over the 2020-2021 school year.

"Linguistic duality, and more importantly institutional duality, are of the utmost importance."

The transportation service for the Moncton area has requested that an advertisement from the Anglophone Rights Association of New Brunswick be pulled from its buses.

Robert Melanson said it's clear the New Brunswick government isn't interested in working in the best interests of Acadians and francophones.