By Andrew Macdonald Sad news this week reached The Macdonald Notebook with the passing of a Halifax significant music philanthropist. In her advanced years, Peggy Corkum has past on. One of my female readers contacted me to tell...
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By Andrew Macdonald News Scoop: Mayor Mike Savage Not In Favour of CFL Stadium Plebiscite As part of my chat this week with Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, a 30-minute free flowing chat in his historic mayoralty office at Halifax...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Now that Ottawa has turned off funding to the Coady Institute in Antigonish, comes word to The Macdonald Notebook that the adjunct to St. Francis Xavier University is seeking $1.5-million from Antigonish Town...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald John Lohr’s Campaign Manager Toiling on Shawn Driscoll’s PEI PC Leadership bid Digby Neck raised and now Ottawa based Tory strategist Steve Outhouse is now managing the campaign of Shawn Driscoll, as he guns...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As I note elsewhere in the Wednesday edition of The Notebook, Nova Scotian raised Tory strategist Steve Outhouse is now campaigning on PEI, working to see that PEI PC leadership contender, Shawn Driscoll wins...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Mega Business Titan and prominent philanthropist Mickey MacDonald is sharing his Lobster Chowder, with my readership. Chowders go hand in hand with the Holiday period, and many Maritime Home Chef’s take...
Read MoreA Chat With Mayor Mike Savage: CFL Stadium: ‘Not at all costs – let’s see the numbers, first’ By Andrew Macdonald At the invite of Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, The Macdonald Notebook attended Monday...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald NS Highways minister Lloyd Hines in his first public comments on the closing of bids on the largest ever tender in NS road building history, tells The Macdonald Notebook that “several bids” were collected on...
Read MoreANOTHER Notebook News Scoop! By Andrew Macdonald Haligonians David & Margaret Fountain opened the doors to their palatial mansion at Young Avenue last weekend, hosting their annual Holiday and Christmas party – which...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald At age 44, Halifax-Chester businessman Scott Carroll says retirement was not in his cards, as he explained in a Notebook chat on Sunday his decision to return to the business world as an entrepreneur. In The...
Read MoreAnother Macdonald Notebook News Scoop! Timberlea MLA Iain Rankin’s Bride To Be: Who Is Mary Chisholm? – Rankin to Marry into the Captains of Commerce & Industry Clan Chisholm family out of Antigonish. Mary Chisholm,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Having some fun with NS Fishtocrats John Risley, Colin MacDonald & Mickey MacDonald On The Notebook Question: What constitutes the The Perfect Christmas Chowder. While listening to Seaside FM’s weekend...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Paging Politicos: Send Us Your Christmas Cards Once again, The Macdonald Notebook is in search of Holiday – Seasons Greetings – and Christmas cards from politicians. We want you to email the cards...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Gift That Gives All Year Long As the Yuletide takes hold in our weekend news coverage area of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, a unique gift for that loved one, or colleague or client, is a...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Macdonald Notebook Reader Endorsements. The Macdonald Notebook is turning two years old on March 17th, 2019 – and each weekend, we generate over 1,000 visits to our popular Inside Politics &...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Halifax-Chester businessman Scott Carroll is back in the business world – two-years year after he sold his NS South Shore auto dealerships. The Macdonald Notebook understands Carroll has just purchased...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Another The Macdonald Notebook News Scoop. Thanks to a dedicated paid reader who tends to tip me on interesting stories frequently, I am able to report a delightful and happy MacPolitical story. The...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Journalist Rick Grant had a Big News Scoop the other week, breaking the news that Canadian National Railway is making a bid to buy the Halterm Southend Halifax Container Terminal. The former leading CTV...
Read MoreAfter Rick Grant’s News Scoop in The National Post the other week that Canadian National Railway is eying the acquisition of Halterm Container Terminal in Southend Halifax, there comes word that CN is also bidding on running a...
Read MoreGottingen Street Bus Folly: What’s Wrong With This Picture? By Andrew Macdonald The other day I attended a business on Gottingen Street. I was on what has become a significant rebirth of the once dominated merchant street, to...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As I report in the above story, Halifax City Hall is now considering what I think is a very common sense approach to re-address last fall’s bus folly, to turn Gottingen Street into a massive bus thoroughfare...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Further to political speculation Halifax lawyer Tara Erskine’s name is being mentioned as a possible Tory suitor to take on Halifax Liberal MP Andy Fillmore, Erskine is catergorically denying that talk. Her...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald In the last few weeks, I caught up to Halifax Mayor Mike Savage at Wadih Fares’ Lebanese Gala – which was held at Maritime Museum of the Atlantic to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of...
Read MoreWhat We’re Working On This Coming Week The Macdonald Notebook has arranged to talk to psychiatrist Stan Kutcher – the new Trudeau Senator. We had the News Scoop this past week on Dr. Kutcher’s call to the Senate...
Read MoreOne of my favourite Christmas traditions is to gobble up a box of hard and soft candy, the iconic and multi-generation Red Wrap chocolates from New Brunswick based Ganong. Introduced in the 1930s, the Red Wrap box is only...
Read MoreBy Caitrin Pilkington It’s that special time of year for small Nova Scotia businesses. Around the holiday season, anything giftable can create a major uptick in sales, but particularly chocolate. For those who struggle with...
Read MoreBy Mary Ellen MacIntyre A hot glob of orange molten crystal pulled from a 1,400-degree oven dangles at the end of a long metal pipe called a blowing iron. Wielding the pipe with one hand, a craftsman uses a metal scoop to...
Read More8-Minute Microwave Bread & Butter Pickles By Gary Phillipe I have a fondness for pickles, so I was delighted when a friend introduced me to this remarkably quick and simple method of making delicious Bread and Butter...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald It’s been three years since Robert Risley shut Maritime Frame-It, the art frame shop. The closure was partially related to the loss of thousands of historic Wallace MacAskill negatives when Risley’s...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As the holiday season approaches, this year I am going to keep my smoked salmon purchases close to home. I give smoked salmon as Xmas gifts and, traditionally, I have ordered smoked salmon from a tiny village...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald A ‘must read’ among lovers of shellfish is the quaint cookbook, How To Make Love To A Lobster, first printed in 1988. The Ontario-produced recipe book is “an eclectic guide to the buying, cooking, eating, and...
Read MoreHow to Shuck Oysters, an excerpt from shellfish cookbook How to make love to a lobster – book on sale at Monte Snow’s Fisherman’s Market, Bedford HWY. To this day, no machine has been invented that can properly do the...
Read MoreBy Monte Snow Chowder Recipe 1 lb fresh salmon 1 lb hot smoked salmon, Seabright or Fisherman’s Brand, either plain or Roasted Herb and Garlic 1.5 lb fresh haddock fillets boned; broken is fine or half halibut (more expensive)...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Yuletide is underway and most of us are looking forward to gathering around family and close friends to celebrate the good life and counting the year’s many blessings. The Macdonald Notebook wishes you...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Don Mills is reporting that the gap between the NS Liberal Party and the NS PC Party is narrowing. Mills firm Corporate Research & Associates has found the two parties are now only separated in popular...
Read MoreA Halifax Tory lawyer is being mentioned as a candidate for the federal riding of Halifax.
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The latest political opinion poll from Don Mills shows a statistical tie for the Prince Edward Island Greens and the Liberals. Mills’ 40-year polling firm based in a Joe Ramia office campus at Bayers Road...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald PEI Liberal MP Wayne Easter could have a serious Tory opponent in next fall’s federal vote. I am hearing from my Island Tory sources that Jamie Fox, is going to make the jump to federal politics in the new...
Read MoreReceiver now seeking bids for DME By Andy Walker Alvarez and Marsal Canada Inc has been appointed a receiver for the group of five associated companies that operate under the trade name Diversified Metal Engineering. Madame...
Read MoreBy Alison Strachan So, here I am with Part Two of my Lunch With Alison gratitude roll out. Recap? In short, feelings of gratitude (that psychologists suggest must be nurtured) that I personally experienced by interviewing people...
Read MoreBy Jordi Morgan Earlier this week The Macdonald Notebook carried a news scoop that Dr. Stan Kutcher was being appointed to the Senate. An internationally-renowned expert in the area of adolescent mental health…Stan is a national...
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