Exclusive: The Fo‘c’sle Tavern Under Offer - Reports Realtor Tim Harris By Andrew Macdonald Listed a year ago on an exclusive offering by Tim Harris, in Chester, the realtor is now reporting a deal has been signed by an unknown party to buy The Fo'c'sle pub and...
Exclusive: Chester’s Fo’c’sle Tavern Under Offer – Reports Realtor Tim Harris
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MacPolitics: Labi Kousoulis Says He Will Work ‘Urgently” For National Pharmacare Program
By Andrew Macdonald A policy statement recently issued by NS Liberal leadership contender, Labi Kousoulis caught my attention as the challenger to become the next NS premier says he will work “urgently” with the Trudeau government to create a national pharmacare...
MacPolitics: Labi Kousoulis Addresses Fraudulent Phone Calls & Email Scams
By Andrew Macdonald The other week, NS Liberal leadership contender Labi Kousoulis issued his vision for a senior’s policy under a government that he might lead. I covered that the week he announced his policy, which includes building new nursing home beds. A link to...
MacPolitics: NS Liberal Party Membership Surges
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Liberal Memberships Surge The three contenders to take over the NS Liberal party leadership have managed to register 8,100 card carrying Liberals. Those folk will decide who will become the next Liberal premier of Nova Scotia. The...
MacPolitics: Scott Armstrong Gunning To Become Tory MP Again?
By Andrew Macdonald The word from Cumberland-Colchester over the weekend is that former Conservative MP Scott Armstrong spent the weekend burning up the phone lines. That has led to political chatter that Armstrong is going to mount a third attempt to become the...
Saturday Edition, Below
Touring The Luxurious Roy Condos, A Vision From Louis Reznick
By Andrew Macdonald The luxurious Roy Condos are now 50 per cent occupied, and I took a tour of the Louis Reznick-built project on Barrington & Granville streets. Reznick was not able to give the tour, because he is holing up in Toronto where he is waiting out the...
Digby Pines Revamping Will Bring Year-Round Opening, Say New Owners
By Andrew Macdonald Bear River First Nation in southwestern Nova Scotia is not elaborating on plans for the Digby Pines Golf Resort & Spa it now owns in the Town of Digby, but a casino or entertainment centre is among them, confirms a minority partner. A...
MacPolitics: Kirby McVicar Steps Down As Co-Campaign Manager For Randy Delorey
By Andrew Macdonald Kirby McVicar is out as the co-campaign manager to Nova Scotia Liberal leadership contender Randy Delorey, The Notebook has confirmed. “Kirby has indeed stepped away from the campaign as of last Sunday (Jan. 10),” confirmed Delorey’s other...
MacPolitics: Randy DeLorey Will Release Donor List After Liberal Race, Says Campaign Toiler
by Andrew Macdonald As I detailed last weekend, Nova Scotia Liberal leadership challenger Iain Rankin made history on the fundraising score. He became the first-ever candidate to lead a mainline party in Nova Scotia to release the amount of his campaign donations...
MacPolitics: Gloria McCluskey & Stephen Adams Books To Offer Stories Of Betrayal, Bad Deals
By Andrew Macdonald Gloria McCluskey was a political trailblazer, and served from 1992 to 1996 as the last mayor of Dartmouth before then-Liberal premier John Savage foisted amalgamation on metro Halifax residents and created the Halifax Regional Municipality. His...
Spoken Word: Nova Scotian Crystal’s Official Statement On Business Closure
Editor’s Note: This week there was a lot of media publicity about the approaching end of Nova Scotian Crystal, a 20-year long institution on the Halifax waterfront which has been billed as Canada’s only manufacturer of mouth blown fine crystal, using craftsmen hired...
Nova Scotian Crystal, Part II: From The 2018 Notebook Archives…
Editor’s Note: For more on Nova Scotian Crystal, below is an archived Notebook article from 2018 in a time when the mouth-blown crystal maker was a real going concern. A hot glob of orange molten crystal pulled from a 1,400-degree oven dangles at the end of a...
MacPolitics: Spoken Word With MLA Allan MacMaster Who Suggests Vaccines Might Have To Be Taken Annually
Editor’s Note: I found a year-end message from Progressive Conservative MLA Allan MacMaster of Inverness interesting, especially his mention of the Covid-19 vaccines, which he warns we might have to take yearly, similar to the flu jab. He also talks about a decline in...
Well, Folks, That Is All For The Notebook’s Saturday Edition
Exclusive: Chester’s Fo’c’sle Tavern Under Offer – Reports Realtor Tim Harris
Exclusive: The Fo‘c’sle Tavern Under Offer - Reports Realtor Tim Harris By Andrew Macdonald Listed a year ago on an exclusive offering by Tim Harris, in Chester, the realtor is now reporting a deal has been signed by an unknown party to buy The Fo'c'sle pub and...
MacPolitics: Labi Kousoulis Says He Will Work ‘Urgently” For National Pharmacare Program
By Andrew Macdonald A policy statement recently issued by NS Liberal leadership contender, Labi Kousoulis caught my attention as the challenger to become the next NS premier says he will work “urgently” with the Trudeau government to create a national pharmacare...
MacPolitics: Labi Kousoulis Addresses Fraudulent Phone Calls & Email Scams
By Andrew Macdonald The other week, NS Liberal leadership contender Labi Kousoulis issued his vision for a senior’s policy under a government that he might lead. I covered that the week he announced his policy, which includes building new nursing home beds. A link to...
MacPolitics: NS Liberal Party Membership Surges
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Liberal Memberships Surge The three contenders to take over the NS Liberal party leadership have managed to register 8,100 card carrying Liberals. Those folk will decide who will become the next Liberal premier of Nova Scotia. The...
MacPolitics: Scott Armstrong Gunning To Become Tory MP Again?
By Andrew Macdonald The word from Cumberland-Colchester over the weekend is that former Conservative MP Scott Armstrong spent the weekend burning up the phone lines. That has led to political chatter that Armstrong is going to mount a third attempt to become the...
Saturday Edition, Below
Touring The Luxurious Roy Condos, A Vision From Louis Reznick
By Andrew Macdonald The luxurious Roy Condos are now 50 per cent occupied, and I took a tour of the Louis Reznick-built project on Barrington & Granville streets. Reznick was not able to give the tour, because he is holing up in Toronto where he is waiting out the...
Digby Pines Revamping Will Bring Year-Round Opening, Say New Owners
By Andrew Macdonald Bear River First Nation in southwestern Nova Scotia is not elaborating on plans for the Digby Pines Golf Resort & Spa it now owns in the Town of Digby, but a casino or entertainment centre is among them, confirms a minority partner. A...
MacPolitics: Kirby McVicar Steps Down As Co-Campaign Manager For Randy Delorey
By Andrew Macdonald Kirby McVicar is out as the co-campaign manager to Nova Scotia Liberal leadership contender Randy Delorey, The Notebook has confirmed. “Kirby has indeed stepped away from the campaign as of last Sunday (Jan. 10),” confirmed Delorey’s other...
MacPolitics: Randy DeLorey Will Release Donor List After Liberal Race, Says Campaign Toiler
by Andrew Macdonald As I detailed last weekend, Nova Scotia Liberal leadership challenger Iain Rankin made history on the fundraising score. He became the first-ever candidate to lead a mainline party in Nova Scotia to release the amount of his campaign donations...
MacPolitics: Gloria McCluskey & Stephen Adams Books To Offer Stories Of Betrayal, Bad Deals
By Andrew Macdonald Gloria McCluskey was a political trailblazer, and served from 1992 to 1996 as the last mayor of Dartmouth before then-Liberal premier John Savage foisted amalgamation on metro Halifax residents and created the Halifax Regional Municipality. His...
Spoken Word: Nova Scotian Crystal’s Official Statement On Business Closure
Editor’s Note: This week there was a lot of media publicity about the approaching end of Nova Scotian Crystal, a 20-year long institution on the Halifax waterfront which has been billed as Canada’s only manufacturer of mouth blown fine crystal, using craftsmen hired...
Nova Scotian Crystal, Part II: From The 2018 Notebook Archives…
Editor’s Note: For more on Nova Scotian Crystal, below is an archived Notebook article from 2018 in a time when the mouth-blown crystal maker was a real going concern. A hot glob of orange molten crystal pulled from a 1,400-degree oven dangles at the end of a...
MacPolitics: Spoken Word With MLA Allan MacMaster Who Suggests Vaccines Might Have To Be Taken Annually
Editor’s Note: I found a year-end message from Progressive Conservative MLA Allan MacMaster of Inverness interesting, especially his mention of the Covid-19 vaccines, which he warns we might have to take yearly, similar to the flu jab. He also talks about a decline in...
Well, Folks, That Is All For The Notebook’s Saturday Edition
