By Andrew Macdonald Fishtocrat John Risley, a close chum of recently retired federal politician Scott Brison, says the former MP leaves a big political legacy. Brison was in cabinets of Liberal prime ministers Paul Martin...
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Opinion By Don Mills When the Liberal government under John Savage was contemplating the amalgamation of municipalities in Metro in the mid-1990s, the initial municipalities to be included were the Town of Bedford, the City of...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As The Notebook reported last weekend, the 46 craft brewers belonging to the Nova Scotia Craft Brewery Association plan to begin lobbying provincial politicians for the right to sell their suds at Loblaw and...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Halifax craft brew maker Brian Titus is proceeding with his fourth expansion of Garrison Brewery since it was founded in 1997 with friends and Navy colleagues as shareholders. Now with two sites in the...
Read MoreMark Boudreau and his husband Dustin Ellsworth won a Set for Life lotto ticket and the windfall of nearly $700,000, awarded to them on Valentine’s Day, will let them pay off their mortgage on their year-old home. The Atlantic...
Read MoreBy Chad Bowie “When she goes, she goes.” That’s what a veteran political organizer told me the day after Premier Rodney MacDonald and the Progressive Conservatives were swept out of power in 2009, as I marvelled over the...
Read MoreBob Price, campaign manager for Cobequid-Sackville Tory Steve Craig, responds to Mat Whynott’s opinion piece last Sunday in The Notebook : Mat Whynott contained a number of strange comments regarding the Progressive...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker With his first week as Prince Edward Island’s new leader of the Progressive Conservative Party now in the books, Dennis King has his sights firmly set on preparing his party to do battle in the next...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This item ran on Wednesday. It is repeated for readers who missed it. By Andrew Macdonald Dale Palmeter, the top political aide to recently retired Liberal MP Scott Brison, is now going to work for...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This item ran Wednesday. It is repeated here for the benefit of readers who missed it. By Andrew Macdonald Cape Breton MP Mark Eyking is retiring from politics after 20 years and won’t re-offer for the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Macdonald Notebook is primarily a weekend news read, but we’re busy now working on next weekend’s Business & Political edition of The Notebook. Here’s what we are working on: After our chat last...
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