By Andrew Macdonald The Gall Meter Needle Swings To Extreme Right As Rodger Cuzner Berates Scheer Tory MP For Actually Standing Up For Port Hawkesbury Airport Because That MP Is From Ontario Outgoing Liberal Cape Breton MP...
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By Andrew Macdonald Chris Keevill’s Halifax headquartered agency, Colour has announced that Martha (Marty) Stevens has joined the team as VP strategy. With tourism marketing experience, it is expected she will play a key role as...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald There is word deep inside the Halifax Port Authority that Halifax Mayor Mike Savage wants to replace outgoing port CEO Karen Oldfield. That is what my well placed sources tell me about the mayor’s intentions....
Read MoreEditor’ Note: I am directing this historical true crime triple murder NS story to the attention of Jamie Baillie, now a leading TV and Documentary executive with Arcadia Films in Halifax – the John Wesley Chisholm...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Town of Port Hawkesbury and the contracted operator of the Allan J MacEachen Regional Airport in Port Hawkesbury have hired an Ottawa lobbyist, Greg MacEachern to fight for the local airport. At issue is...
Read MorePort Hawkesbury’s town council is fighting for the very survival of the Port Hawkesbury airport, after The Macdonald Notebook first reported in a News Scoop that Cabot Links has been quietly working on a two year plan to...
Read MoreHere is Port Hawkesbury Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton’s letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – a plea for the Trudeau government not to fund an $18 million airport at Cabot Links, in Inverness. Chisholm-Beaton...
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Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Betsy MacDonald, 34, is expected to be acclaimed as NDP contender in Central Nova when party members gather Saturday (June 15) to pick a standard-bearer in the riding, currently held by Liberal MP Sean...
Read MoreBy Chad Bowie Could an avalanche of bad news for some of Nova Scotia’s political leaders result in dramatic changes to the electoral landscape in our province? It just might. On Tuesday, voters in Sackville-Cobequid will elect a...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Man About Halifax, senior BoyneClarke corporate lawyer John Young is detailing why he and his lovely wife Carol have listed their 2,500-square foot condo, near Spring Garden Road. As I recently reported in a...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Of course, a conversation with BoyneClarke senior partner John Young is not complete, without talking about his strong passion for all things related to Liberal politics as well as the Port of Halifax, where...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Halifax’s political polling entity Narrative Research – formerly known as Corporate Research & Associates, has found that voter satisfaction with the Liberal Stephen McNeil government is at the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Nova Scotia Lt.-Governor Art LeBlanc has passed on his first right of refusal to buy the favoured oasis of his former political master, political titan Allan J. MacEachen. The MacEachen compound at Lake...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Here is a political history lesson on why Allan J MacEachen, the political don of the Atlantic in the 1970s and early 80s Liberal Pierre Trudeau government built an airport in his riding and located it in...
Read MoreFifty years after Pierre Trudeau and Allan J. MacEachen moved to take same sex relations out of the Canadian Criminal Code in 1969, EllisDon is the next big corporation to endorse gay pride festivities. For the month of June,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Further to my June 1 news scoop that Cabot Links wants federal government money to help build an $18 million airport at its world-class golf courses, my sources also detail that co-owner Ben Cowan Dewar wants...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald According to well placed sources, Halifax condo and apartment developer Danny Chedrawe is in secret negotiations to become a landlord to the 130-year-old Music Conservatory on Halifax’s Chebucto Road and...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The other week, I reported in The Macdonald Notebook that, for the second summer running, the Toronto-based chain A&W is retailing a cod burger made at the Lunenburg plant of High Liner Foods. A&W,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Recreational sports fishermen in the waters of Mahone Bay each summer report a run of cod fish, once the mainstay of the Atlantic Canada economy. The fish are in abundance off of Pearl Island at the mouth of...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Pedways will be no more in Halifax. Enclosed aerial sidewalks, like that which has connected Purdy’s Wharf Complex to Scotia Square for more than three decades, are being banned in future Halifax Regional...
Read MoreBy Carol Dobson A pioneer in Nova Scotia journalism has passed away. Patrick Sims, one of the founders of the Bedford-Sackville News and the subsequent Halifax Daily News, died of cancer May 17 in the Queen Elizabeth II Health...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Perhaps one of the most famous summer residents in the Bras d’Or Lake community of Dundee is Rod Bryden, owner of the National Hockey League team Ottawa Senators from its conception in 1992 until 2003....
Read MoreBy Carol Dobson It was a sellout crowd of more than 900 Thursday evening at the Nova Centre to honour this year’s nominees to the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame — Joe Ramia, Jack Flemming, and Stephanie and Maurizio...
Read MoreBy Carol Dobson Each of the laureates at last night’s Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame gala dinner was introduced by an outstanding young, future entrepreneur from Junior Achievement. Amy Hoadley, whose job was to introduce Joe...
Read MoreBy Mary Clancy Last Monday, I was lucky enough to be a guest at John Turner’s 90th birthday celebration. Organized by long time Turner staffers Lisa Haley and Marc Kealey, it was a truly superb event. Several hundred of his...
Read MoreBy Peter L McCreath Frequently, and recently in The Macdonald Notebook, the subject (has arisen) of opening up the retail sale of beverage alcohol—beer, wine and spirits—more widely here in Nova Scotia, and also in other...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald We’re coming up to the third anniversary of Joe Stewart’s death at age 80. He died Sept. 30, 2016, at his Terra Tory mansion in Antigonish County. This week, while at the summertime news desk of The Macdonald...
Read MoreThe Macdonald Notebook is read by partisans of all three mainline parties, including the office of Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil, the NDP Caucus led by Gary Burrill, and a number of Progressive Conservative MLAs, and lots of...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker CHARLOTTETOWN—It will likely be some time before beer and wine is widely available at convenience stores across Canada’s smallest province. Like Nova Scotia, PEI currently has a limited number of agency...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The big business of cannabis: In a coming issue of The Macdonald Notebook, I will tell you the story of a large weed grower and supplier here in Nova Scotia. Since wacky tobaccy became legal under PM Justin...
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By Andrew Macdonald If you are in the market for a charming steady sailboat to ply the Maritime seas, then this article might be of interest to you. My brother is selling his Ontario 32, named ‘Tir Ard Nighean’, the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Macdonald Notebook recently entered its third year of independent publishing, thanks to the patronage of readers like you. If you like to read news scoops and other exclusive news reports on the business...
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