By Andrew Macdonald Breaking News: Mills Brothers Building Being Demolished On The Weekend On Saturday, and Sunday contractors began demolishing a landmark for generations on Spring Garden Road: The Mills Brothers Building. More buildings on the city block will be...
Breaking News: Mills Brothers Building On Spring Garden Road Being Demolished On Weekend To Make Way For Mickey MacDonald & Danny Chedrawe’s $100M Apartment Building
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Exclusive: Dr. John Gillis: ‘Nova Scotians Can Expect Access To COVID Vaccine By April, 2021’
By Andrew Macdonald On Saturday, I had a 20-minute chat with a well known Halifax doctor, who hails from Antigonish. My reason to speak to Dr. John Gillis was two-fold: When would a COVID-19 vaccine be available to Nova Scotians, and I also talked to Dr. Gillis about...
The Gold Bean Cafe: Where Indigenous Folk & The White Man Mingle Happily – A Trip To This Award-Winning Eatery at Gold River First Nation
By Andrew Macdonald The Gold Bean Café: Where Indigenous Folk and The White Man Mingle Happily On Saturday, while working on the Notebook On Sunday, I took a drive up to a tiny First Nation terrain: The Gold River First Nation, on the Nova Scotia South Shore. The trip...
We Get Mail: Gord Gamble ‘Appalled’ By Plans To Drop Sir John A. Macdonald’s Name On School
Businessman and Haligonian Gord Gamble writes in defense of Sir John A. Macdonald, regarding the proposed name change of Tantallon's Sir John A. Macdonald High School, after its principal suggested the founder of Canada should not be honoured, after his treatment of...
Some STFX Students Sanctioned For Infractions During Fall Semester – University Preparing For Winter Term In COVID World
By Corey LeBlanc ANTIGONISH: Topic: StFX officials already preparing for winter term in a COVID-19 world - Students sanctioned for infractions during fall semester While many people are putting up decorations and buying gifts in the lead-up to the Christmas season,...
PEI Notes: Island Government Orders Citizen Irving To Divest 2,000-Acre Land Purchase As It Violates Land Ownership Laws
By Andrew Walker CHARLOTTETOWN: Topic: PEI government orders land divesture for an Irving company, Red Fox Acres While some of the key details are still missing, the PEI government has pulled the plug on the latest attempt by a member of the Irving family to obtain...
MacPolitics: The NS Liberal Contenders: Meet A Randy Delorey Backer: Dr. John Gillis
By Andrew Macdonald The Liberal Contenders: MacPolitics: Meet A Randy Delorey Backer: Dr. John Gillis Virtually a household name across Nova Scotia, thanks to a long run as host of a former Eastlink TV show, Doc Talk, Dr. John Gillis on Saturday opens up to why he is...
MacPolitics: Alexa McDonough In Her Own Words On Remarkable 40th Anniversary Of Being Elected NS NDP Leader – First Woman To Head A Party In Canada!
MacPolitics: McDonough marks legacy of leadership in Nova Scotia politics Alexa McDonough made the following statement to mark the 40th anniversary of her election as leader of the NS NDP on November 16, 1980, making her the first woman to be leader of a major...
MacPolitics: Somehow I Doubt Tim Houston & Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday When They Met For Lunch – So Why Did They Meet?
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Somehow I Doubt Tim Houston and Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday, When They Had A Lunch This Week By Andrew Macdonald In the Town of Antigonish, a locale famous for its gossip rumour mill - and mostly, denizens get it...
Saturday Edition, Below
Real Estate: Market Hot In Yarmouth Area With Some Multiple Offers, Realtors Report
By Andrew Macdonald It’s not just around the Halifax-Dartmouth region that homes are seeing multiple offers and going over the asking price. According to realtors in the southwestern Nova Scotia town of Yarmouth at the tip of the province, the practice is also...
Lloyd Hines: Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway On His Radar
By Andrew Macdonald Lloyd Hines On Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway NS Highways minister Lloyd Hines admits he has been “salivating” over the new 11-kilometre twinned section of the 103 HWY, between Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 to the...
John Risley This Week: Bemoans Tedious Delays Of Highway Twinning In Nova Scotia
By Andrew Macdonald Let's start with a few highway twinning facts: 1. The first twinning of 103 HWY since road builders completed the twinning between Halifax and Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 just opened this fall, as we reported recently in The Notebook. It was more than...
Stymied Request For Sydney Port Deal Information On Agenda For New CBRM Council
By Corey LeBlanc SYDNEY — Mayor Amanda McDougall shares one of the items on the Nov. 24 agenda of the first monthly meeting of the newly-elected council in Cape Breton Regional Municipality. “Absolutely,” she says, when asked if council would be discussing a recent...
Fun Facts: Nova Scotia’s Five Most Popular Provincial Parks In 2020
By Andrew Macdonald The other day, one of the Nova Scotia government’s most able and efficient departmental spokespersons, Deborah J. Bayer, issued a news dispatch. At a former job, I used to rate the top PR folk in the government, and in a future edition I will...
Breaking News: Mills Brothers Building On Spring Garden Road Being Demolished On Weekend To Make Way For Mickey MacDonald & Danny Chedrawe’s $100M Apartment Building
By Andrew Macdonald Breaking News: Mills Brothers Building Being Demolished On The Weekend On Saturday, and Sunday contractors began demolishing a landmark for generations on Spring Garden Road: The Mills Brothers Building. More buildings on the city block will be...
Exclusive: Dr. John Gillis: ‘Nova Scotians Can Expect Access To COVID Vaccine By April, 2021’
By Andrew Macdonald On Saturday, I had a 20-minute chat with a well known Halifax doctor, who hails from Antigonish. My reason to speak to Dr. John Gillis was two-fold: When would a COVID-19 vaccine be available to Nova Scotians, and I also talked to Dr. Gillis about...
The Gold Bean Cafe: Where Indigenous Folk & The White Man Mingle Happily – A Trip To This Award-Winning Eatery at Gold River First Nation
By Andrew Macdonald The Gold Bean Café: Where Indigenous Folk and The White Man Mingle Happily On Saturday, while working on the Notebook On Sunday, I took a drive up to a tiny First Nation terrain: The Gold River First Nation, on the Nova Scotia South Shore. The trip...
We Get Mail: Gord Gamble ‘Appalled’ By Plans To Drop Sir John A. Macdonald’s Name On School
Businessman and Haligonian Gord Gamble writes in defense of Sir John A. Macdonald, regarding the proposed name change of Tantallon's Sir John A. Macdonald High School, after its principal suggested the founder of Canada should not be honoured, after his treatment of...
Some STFX Students Sanctioned For Infractions During Fall Semester – University Preparing For Winter Term In COVID World
By Corey LeBlanc ANTIGONISH: Topic: StFX officials already preparing for winter term in a COVID-19 world - Students sanctioned for infractions during fall semester While many people are putting up decorations and buying gifts in the lead-up to the Christmas season,...
PEI Notes: Island Government Orders Citizen Irving To Divest 2,000-Acre Land Purchase As It Violates Land Ownership Laws
By Andrew Walker CHARLOTTETOWN: Topic: PEI government orders land divesture for an Irving company, Red Fox Acres While some of the key details are still missing, the PEI government has pulled the plug on the latest attempt by a member of the Irving family to obtain...
MacPolitics: The NS Liberal Contenders: Meet A Randy Delorey Backer: Dr. John Gillis
By Andrew Macdonald The Liberal Contenders: MacPolitics: Meet A Randy Delorey Backer: Dr. John Gillis Virtually a household name across Nova Scotia, thanks to a long run as host of a former Eastlink TV show, Doc Talk, Dr. John Gillis on Saturday opens up to why he is...
MacPolitics: Alexa McDonough In Her Own Words On Remarkable 40th Anniversary Of Being Elected NS NDP Leader – First Woman To Head A Party In Canada!
MacPolitics: McDonough marks legacy of leadership in Nova Scotia politics Alexa McDonough made the following statement to mark the 40th anniversary of her election as leader of the NS NDP on November 16, 1980, making her the first woman to be leader of a major...
MacPolitics: Somehow I Doubt Tim Houston & Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday When They Met For Lunch – So Why Did They Meet?
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Somehow I Doubt Tim Houston and Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday, When They Had A Lunch This Week By Andrew Macdonald In the Town of Antigonish, a locale famous for its gossip rumour mill - and mostly, denizens get it...
Saturday Edition, Below
Real Estate: Market Hot In Yarmouth Area With Some Multiple Offers, Realtors Report
By Andrew Macdonald It’s not just around the Halifax-Dartmouth region that homes are seeing multiple offers and going over the asking price. According to realtors in the southwestern Nova Scotia town of Yarmouth at the tip of the province, the practice is also...
Lloyd Hines: Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway On His Radar
By Andrew Macdonald Lloyd Hines On Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway NS Highways minister Lloyd Hines admits he has been “salivating” over the new 11-kilometre twinned section of the 103 HWY, between Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 to the...
John Risley This Week: Bemoans Tedious Delays Of Highway Twinning In Nova Scotia
By Andrew Macdonald Let's start with a few highway twinning facts: 1. The first twinning of 103 HWY since road builders completed the twinning between Halifax and Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 just opened this fall, as we reported recently in The Notebook. It was more than...
Stymied Request For Sydney Port Deal Information On Agenda For New CBRM Council
By Corey LeBlanc SYDNEY — Mayor Amanda McDougall shares one of the items on the Nov. 24 agenda of the first monthly meeting of the newly-elected council in Cape Breton Regional Municipality. “Absolutely,” she says, when asked if council would be discussing a recent...
Fun Facts: Nova Scotia’s Five Most Popular Provincial Parks In 2020
By Andrew Macdonald The other day, one of the Nova Scotia government’s most able and efficient departmental spokespersons, Deborah J. Bayer, issued a news dispatch. At a former job, I used to rate the top PR folk in the government, and in a future edition I will...
