By Andrew Macdonald Topic: MacPolitics: Battling COVID, Premier Tim Houston Enters Folklore Lexicon with Messaging: ‘Grow Up’ Directed At Anti-Vaxxers Protesting At Home of Dr. Strang First we had former Premier Stephen McNeil, tell Nova Scotians to “Stay The Blazes...

By Andrew Macdonald Topic: MacPolitics: Conservative Erin O'Toole Has Deep Roots In Halifax - Does He Have The Coattails To Take NS? With election day in Canada today, (Sept. 20th, 2021), we are presenting a few stories. With polls showing the race a battle between...

By Andrew Macdonald Trudeau Liberals, Like the Pollster’s, Predict Close Race In a Sunday message to rank and file Liberals, the Team Trudeau campaign message is that “every single vote matters”. The Liberal message last night also stated: “This election could come...

By Andrew Macdonald Last spring, I carried a story with the headline: MacPolitics: NDP Would be Halifax MP Lisa Roberts Chats On Her Position Regarding The $60 Billion Irving Halifax Shipyard Warship Program Roberts, the former provincial Halifax Needham NDP MLA Lisa...

By Andrew Macdonald One of my political heroes is John George Diefenbaker, AKA 'Dief The Chief', who wisely said: 'Polls (poles) are for dogs' and as Tim Houston proved, the only poll that matters is on election day. Having said that, with election day upon us, shall...

By Andrew Macdonald I wrote about election signs and buttons not voting last weekend. While I was in Chester, the other day, I spotted a sign that was red in colour and contained this messaging: “Vote her Out”. I made a mental note to go back to this interesting sign,...

By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Mark Parent Campaigns by Bike, Fiona MacLeod Drives Around in RV and another challenger responds to a fire Here are some odds and sods on the election trail, as we head into the ballot box today Former NS MLA Mark Parent, running for...

By Andrew Macdonald A neat political fact is that Nova Scotia has two national party presidents from this province. Last winter, Rob Batherson's won a contested battle to become the president of the Conservative Party of Canada. And the Liberal Party of Canada is also...

By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Pensions for outgoing MLAs to cost taxpayers $485,000 per year Part I With fine research from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, (CTF) which does important public policy work on government waste across the nation, I have a list of...

Editor's Note: Further to the above story on the gold-plated pensions Nova Scotia MLAs are entitled to, here is a list of the pensions now being paid defeated and retired politicos. In many ways, these former MLAs are entitled to their pensions - if I can quote Jean...

By Andrew Macdonald The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Atlantic director, Renaud Brossard is keeping a close eye on what changes in government might mean for a future airport at the Cabot Links luxury golf course in Inverness, Cape Breton. The taxpayer's watchdog,...

By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Election Signs Don’t Vote - Most Politicos Avoid Putting their leader on signs Election signs don’t vote. Mayor for Life, AKA Mike Savage has run three mayoralty campaigns in Halifax - winning them by growing margins - and without...