By Andrew Macdonald Ben Cowan Dewar’s lobby effort in his quest to get up to $18 million in taxpayers dollars for his controversial Cabot Links airport in Inverness now includes full page newspaper advertisements and even google...
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By Andrew Macdonald Her People Come From Inverness But Taxpayers’ Watch Dog Official Pans Airport Project Getting Government Money In the Saturday Notebook, I carried an opinion piece from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The MLA for Inverness, Tory MLA Allan MacMaster took to media in recent days, to suggest he wants to see the full business case for an airport at Cabot Links. The fact the MLA for the area which is home to...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Noted Haligonian comedian, Cathy Jones has a cottage property in Chester. The This Hour Has 22-Minutes co-star made the announcement official at the Chester Playhouse social gathering and fundraiser at the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald One of the highlights of summertime in the Maritimes is the Chester Race Week. This year the races are set for August 14-17th, 2019 off of Chester in the waters of Mahone Bay. Over four days, five courses,...
Read MoreOpinion: By NS PC leader Tim Houston I try to live a pretty healthy lifestyle. I exercise, eat healthy and do my best to make good choices. But, like many others, when life gets busy and I find myself needing a food fix, the...
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Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Michele McKenzie is by far the chief promoter of a Cabot Links Airport, in Inverness. She has some pretty impeccable credentials: She has been employed in the tourism sector in Nova Scotia and across the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the Canso Crisis – in 1989 the Northern Cod Fishery began to collapse across the Atlantic, as thousands and thousands of fish plant workers lost their jobs....
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The year 2019 marks the 30th year I have been a Maritime journalist. In June, 1989, I got a job at CIGO radio in Port Hawkesbury. That station sold the other month to the Irvings who cut a $1.3-million cheque...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Wark family of Hammonds Plains has had a longstanding passion and love affair for union work. I refer to Joan Wark and Larry Wark, a couple who first met during the Canso Crisis, nearly 30 years ago. Joan...
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 MoreFrom The Notebook Archives By Andrew Macdonald Three decades ago, Henry Demone became chief executive officer of National Sea Products, forerunner of the publicly-traded High Liner Foods. In 1989, the frozen seafood provider was...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald In his fourth year as president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour, Danny Cavanagh says the NS government, police and courts have to get more work related death charges turned into convictions and impose...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Here’s a question: How many Nova Scotian workers have died on the job since 1992 when 26 miners were killed in an explosion in the Westray mine near Stellarton? Last week, when a 40-year-old shipbuilder died...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Good Times In The Maritimes: Also Means Bug & Insect Invasion Time John Allan Cameron’s classic summer tune, Good Times In The Maritimes does not mention, another factor of Maritime life in the summer...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Further to a February 4th news item in The Notebook that Ottawa had advertising two directorships on the Halifax Port Authority, David Cameron, a Burchells lawyer has been re-appointed to another three year...
Read MoreBy Carol Dobson When you come down over the crest of the hill on the road from Wolfville to the Gaspereau Valley, the view to the right is stunning– a hillside covered in acres and acres of grapevines. Several years ago,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Are you a Haligonian or Spryfielder looking for a leisurely fun Saturday afternoon? Prolific condo and apartment developer Peter Polley is hosting his second annual cardboard and duct tape boat races at the...
Read MoreIn retirement, former Bridgewater speech pathologist Karen MacKenzie-Stepner is gearing up for yet another mission in the Third World, working this time with children in Peru who are deaf. So she is hosting bake sales at the...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay has announced the establishment of an $18.5 million Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in his home community of St. Peters. The Cardigan MP was all smiles July 5...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton of Port Hawkesbury is urging Cabot Links co-owner Ben Cowan-Dewar to release the larger consulting studies on why an airport makes business sense. Earlier this week, Cowan-Dewar’s...
Read MoreMayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton of Port Hawkesbury says she has been assured a meeting will be held with MP Bernadette Jordan, who has a significant say on whether tax dollars will go towards an airport project at Cabot Links in...
Read MoreOpinion: By Paige MacPherson Here’s an under-reported tragedy: it’s a one-hour drive to a luxury golf course from the nearest airport. It’s such unnecessary suffering. The Cabot Links Golf Resort is a luxury facility set amidst...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Legendary American journalist Andy Rooney won numerous journalism awards, but during one of his famous dialogues on CBS’ 60 Minutes insisted he did not believe in such awards. He said the best awards came...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald In the past 30 days, 5,400 unique IP addresses visited the Business & Inside Politics, Halifax-based online website, The Macdonald Notebook. On average, over 1,500 individuals now visit our website...
Read MoreThe following news articles moved earlier in the week in The Macdonald Notebook. These articles are repeated for the benefit of readers who just prefer to read us on the weekend, rather than the weekday.
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Truro-Bible Hill’s Dr. Keltie Jones, who ran for Jamie Baillie’s Progressive Conservatives in the 2017 provincial election, is off to a new job at a community college near Ottawa. Jones has just been...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Here’s a happy story for another grand summer day: The Macdonald Notebook is being told that the organization Hope Blooms Salad Dressing, which is made by inner-city Halifax kids, is going to tell the story...
Read MoreLast week, Trevor O’Neill, at age 40, died from injuries sustained on the job at Irving Shipyard in Halifax. He was a sub-tradesman. We know from his obituary that he was “an avid outdoorsman, who enjoyed hunting,...
Read MoreBy Tim Olive Irving Shipyards have had their share of workplace accidents over the years and I believe that they work hard on safety programs in the workplace. Unfortunately, not all sub-trades they or other companies engage are...
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By Andrew Macdonald Back in April, The Macdonald Notebook carrried a news scoop that burgeoning Halifax multi-residential owner and developer Adam Barrett has extended his growing property empire to Bridgewater, capital of the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The celebrated fish & chip wars of recent years in Chester ended this summer after popular food van Something Fishy departed for a site on the Bedford Highway leaving Stretch Diner in plaice as the sole...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston went to Inverness on Monday to be keynote speaker at the provincial Tory riding association’s annual general meeting*. So, where does Houston stand on the biggest...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As I report in the above article, there are more questions than answers following the release of a five-page ‘business case’ supporting an Inverness airport project for the Cabot Links Golf Resort. But, in...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald It’s a positive move by Ben Cowan-Dewar to publicly release his business case for the need of a publicly funded airport to serve Cabot Links Golf Resort. A month after The Notebook began asking Cabot Links...
Read MoreThe Halifax public relations company hired by Cabot Links co-owner Ben Cowan-Dewar is refusing to release the overall studies that led to formation of a business plan for the proposed airport at Inverness. Cowan-Dewar has...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald One of the chief promoters of an airport at Cabot Links is shedding more information on her paid consulting work on behalf of Ben Cowan Dewar. Former NS deputy Tourism minister, Michele McKenzie spoke with...
Read MoreBruce Evans, a former Cape Breton native, after reading the just released business case for a Cabot Links airport, writes: “I spent a career evaluating and financing large projects. I am a private pilot who has served on...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Will Webster, chair of the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, has shot back after a leading group of Haligonians fired off a letter “demanding” the board of the music school hold a town hall meeting to...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Further to the above news article on the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, also known as the Music Conservatory, here is Will Webster’s letter as chair, sent to leading Haligonians, who have...
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The Macdonald Notebook was the first media outlet to report that Cabot Links went to the federal and provincial governments seeking $18 million for an airport at Inverness – via our sources, we carried that news scoop on...
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