By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Six days To U.S. Presidential Election: Derek Brett Faxes In ballot - Meet A Halifax Democrat Abroad The U.S. Presidential Election will be decided next Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 2020 - as of this writing on Wednesday, Oct. 28th - the race is...
MacPolitics: Days to U.S. Presidential Election – Halifax’s Derek Brett Predicts Joe Biden ‘Landslide’; Former Florida Lawyer Faxes In Ballot
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We Get Mail: Brookes Diamond Writes On Schmidtville Trees…’Gotta Find A Way To Save Those Trees!!’
We Get Mail: Brookes Diamond Writes On Schmidtville Trees Further to our comprehensive coverage on a Halifax City Hall plan to install a bike lane on Morris Street, in the heart of the Schmidtville District, off of Spring Garden Road - where HRM states an option is to...
Tuesday & Previous Editions, Below
Schmidtville Tree File: The True Saga Of A Developer Offering Holiday Turkeys For A Felled Backyard Forest…
By Andrew Macdonald
Schmidtville Trees: A HFX Developer Chopped Down A Backyard Forest in ‘93 – And Everyone Heard About it: The Saga of Frozen Holiday Turkeys for A Felled Forest
I think we need to offer modern-day Halifax City Hall a fine history lesson when it comes to chopping down trees.
As bureaucrats and politicos at City Hall now consider an option to fell 30 stately trees at Schmidtville’s Morris Street, off of Spring Garden Road, because the city wants to build a bike lane, by widening the street, and thus needing the possibility to ‘massacre’ the 30 grand and majestic trees on the downtown Halifax street, The Notebook offers a lesson on a noted housing developer’s own saga with chainsawing trees.
Previous Editions, Below…
Halifax Port: The Captain Explains Significance Of A New Berth Extension – PSA Halifax Now Has Largest Terminal In Eastern Canada
By Andrew Macdonald With the extension project finished, and the ribbon-cutting held Friday, (Oct. 23rd 2020) the South End Container Terminal operated by PSA Halifax now has the longest and deepest container berth in Eastern Canada, as The Notebook reported on...
Halifax Port CEO: ‘We have Probably Made It Difficult For Other Proposed Port Projects’
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port CEO: ‘We have Probably Made It Difficult For Them’ - Referring To Proposed Port Projects In Melford & Sydney With Friday’s ribbon cutting of the deepwater berth extension at Port of Halifax, the terminal is now fully operational,...
Halifax Port: The Captain On More Cranes; PSA As Ceres Owner; Northward Expansion Into Piers 30 & 31
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port: CEO Captain Gray On More Cranes; Reported PSA’s Take-Over Of Fairview Cove Terminal & Expansion into Piers 30 & 31 The Notebook recently reported that PSA Halifax has already ordered another Super-Post Panamax crane, to be a...
Halifax Port: The ‘Big Boats’ Are Here – Our City Port Now Making Living History…And Eating Montreal’s Cake!
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port: The Big Boats Are Here: Halifax Port Now Making Living History: Our City Port Now Hosting The Largest Container Vessels To Ever Call At A Canadian Port This fall, I have lost track of a key living historical fact - the arrival of the...
Halifax Port: City Container Terminals Are Eating More Of Montreal’s Cake – Containerized Cargo Surges In Q3
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port: Container Box Surge At Port In Q3 - Growth Comes at Expense of Montreal’s Port The containerized cargo figures for the third quarter (Q3) of 2020 have been released by the Port of Halifax - and it is all good news for our port...
Meet Joe Randell: Hobby At Age 12 Led To 30-Year Aviation Career – His Chorus Aviation Subject Of Take-Over Bid
By Andrew Macdonald Meet Chorus Aviation’s Joe Randell: HFX HQ’ed Airliner Subject Of Take-Over Bid On Friday, Halifax headquartered Chrous Aviation announced in a statement it is in receipt of a proposed take-over bid - an acquisition from a third-party. The Joe...
Alison Strachan: Keeping History Alive: Angela Worsley and All For Knot Rope Weaving Inc.
By Alison Strachan This week, I had a delightful conversation with Angela Worsley to talk about an ad/venture that was ignited for her on a 2007 "girls getaway" in Maine. That trip inspired her to eventually start her company, All for Knot Rope Weaving Inc., located...
The Religious Beat: Rev. Alison Etter Uses Love Of Gaelic To ‘Spread The Word’
By Corey LeBlanc GLACE BAY - Rev. Alison Etter would love to have Gaelic worship continue to grow in Nova Scotia. The United Church of Canada minister at the Knox and Warden churches in Glace Bay is doing her part to help make that happen. Etter, whose maternal...
Melford Container Terminal: Proponent Richie Mann Has Missed Every Timeline Since Grand Announcement In 2005
By Andrew Macdonald Melford Container Terminal: Missed Every Timeline Since Grand Announcement in 2005 The proposed Melford Container Terminal planned for a 315-acre site near the Strait of Canso town of Mulgrave was announced to grand media coverage in 2005. But, the...
Mark Lever’s Saltwire Network To Re-Launch Five NS Weekly Papers – Hiring Journalists
By Andrew Macdonald SaltWire Network bringing back five Nova Scotia - Mark Lever Hiring Saltwire Network Journalists As Halifax Herald Re-Launches NS Weeklies There was some positive news this week on the weekly newspaper front in Nova Scotia - as the Halifax Herald...
MacPolitics: Days to U.S. Presidential Election – Halifax’s Derek Brett Predicts Joe Biden ‘Landslide’; Former Florida Lawyer Faxes In Ballot
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Six days To U.S. Presidential Election: Derek Brett Faxes In ballot - Meet A Halifax Democrat Abroad The U.S. Presidential Election will be decided next Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 2020 - as of this writing on Wednesday, Oct. 28th - the race is...
We Get Mail: Brookes Diamond Writes On Schmidtville Trees…’Gotta Find A Way To Save Those Trees!!’
We Get Mail: Brookes Diamond Writes On Schmidtville Trees Further to our comprehensive coverage on a Halifax City Hall plan to install a bike lane on Morris Street, in the heart of the Schmidtville District, off of Spring Garden Road - where HRM states an option is to...
Tuesday & Previous Editions, Below
Schmidtville Tree File: The True Saga Of A Developer Offering Holiday Turkeys For A Felled Backyard Forest…
By Andrew Macdonald
Schmidtville Trees: A HFX Developer Chopped Down A Backyard Forest in ‘93 – And Everyone Heard About it: The Saga of Frozen Holiday Turkeys for A Felled Forest
I think we need to offer modern-day Halifax City Hall a fine history lesson when it comes to chopping down trees.
As bureaucrats and politicos at City Hall now consider an option to fell 30 stately trees at Schmidtville’s Morris Street, off of Spring Garden Road, because the city wants to build a bike lane, by widening the street, and thus needing the possibility to ‘massacre’ the 30 grand and majestic trees on the downtown Halifax street, The Notebook offers a lesson on a noted housing developer’s own saga with chainsawing trees.
Previous Editions, Below…
Halifax Port: The Captain Explains Significance Of A New Berth Extension – PSA Halifax Now Has Largest Terminal In Eastern Canada
By Andrew Macdonald With the extension project finished, and the ribbon-cutting held Friday, (Oct. 23rd 2020) the South End Container Terminal operated by PSA Halifax now has the longest and deepest container berth in Eastern Canada, as The Notebook reported on...
Halifax Port CEO: ‘We have Probably Made It Difficult For Other Proposed Port Projects’
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port CEO: ‘We have Probably Made It Difficult For Them’ - Referring To Proposed Port Projects In Melford & Sydney With Friday’s ribbon cutting of the deepwater berth extension at Port of Halifax, the terminal is now fully operational,...
Halifax Port: The Captain On More Cranes; PSA As Ceres Owner; Northward Expansion Into Piers 30 & 31
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port: CEO Captain Gray On More Cranes; Reported PSA’s Take-Over Of Fairview Cove Terminal & Expansion into Piers 30 & 31 The Notebook recently reported that PSA Halifax has already ordered another Super-Post Panamax crane, to be a...
Halifax Port: The ‘Big Boats’ Are Here – Our City Port Now Making Living History…And Eating Montreal’s Cake!
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port: The Big Boats Are Here: Halifax Port Now Making Living History: Our City Port Now Hosting The Largest Container Vessels To Ever Call At A Canadian Port This fall, I have lost track of a key living historical fact - the arrival of the...
Halifax Port: City Container Terminals Are Eating More Of Montreal’s Cake – Containerized Cargo Surges In Q3
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port: Container Box Surge At Port In Q3 - Growth Comes at Expense of Montreal’s Port The containerized cargo figures for the third quarter (Q3) of 2020 have been released by the Port of Halifax - and it is all good news for our port...
Meet Joe Randell: Hobby At Age 12 Led To 30-Year Aviation Career – His Chorus Aviation Subject Of Take-Over Bid
By Andrew Macdonald Meet Chorus Aviation’s Joe Randell: HFX HQ’ed Airliner Subject Of Take-Over Bid On Friday, Halifax headquartered Chrous Aviation announced in a statement it is in receipt of a proposed take-over bid - an acquisition from a third-party. The Joe...
Alison Strachan: Keeping History Alive: Angela Worsley and All For Knot Rope Weaving Inc.
By Alison Strachan This week, I had a delightful conversation with Angela Worsley to talk about an ad/venture that was ignited for her on a 2007 "girls getaway" in Maine. That trip inspired her to eventually start her company, All for Knot Rope Weaving Inc., located...
The Religious Beat: Rev. Alison Etter Uses Love Of Gaelic To ‘Spread The Word’
By Corey LeBlanc GLACE BAY - Rev. Alison Etter would love to have Gaelic worship continue to grow in Nova Scotia. The United Church of Canada minister at the Knox and Warden churches in Glace Bay is doing her part to help make that happen. Etter, whose maternal...
Melford Container Terminal: Proponent Richie Mann Has Missed Every Timeline Since Grand Announcement In 2005
By Andrew Macdonald Melford Container Terminal: Missed Every Timeline Since Grand Announcement in 2005 The proposed Melford Container Terminal planned for a 315-acre site near the Strait of Canso town of Mulgrave was announced to grand media coverage in 2005. But, the...
Mark Lever’s Saltwire Network To Re-Launch Five NS Weekly Papers – Hiring Journalists
By Andrew Macdonald SaltWire Network bringing back five Nova Scotia - Mark Lever Hiring Saltwire Network Journalists As Halifax Herald Re-Launches NS Weeklies There was some positive news this week on the weekly newspaper front in Nova Scotia - as the Halifax Herald...
