By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Some How I Doubt Tim Houston and Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday, When They Had A Lunch This Week By Andrew Macdonald In the Town of Antigonish, a locale famous for its gossip rumour mill - and mostly, denizens get it...
MacPolitics: Somehow I Doubt Tim Houston & Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday When They Met For Lunch – So Why Did They Meet?
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Real Estate: Market Hot In Yarmouth Area With Some Multiple Offers, Realtors Report
By Andrew Macdonald It’s not just around the Halifax-Dartmouth region that homes are seeing multiple offers and going over the asking price. According to realtors in the southwestern Nova Scotia town of Yarmouth at the tip of the province, the practice is also...
Lloyd Hines: Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway On His Radar
By Andrew Macdonald Lloyd Hines On Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway NS Highways minister Lloyd Hines admits he has been “salivating” over the new 11-kilometre twinned section of the 103 HWY, between Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 to the...
John Risley This Week: Bemoans Tedious Delays Of Highway Twinning In Nova Scotia
By Andrew Macdonald Let's start with a few highway twinning facts: 1. The first twinning of 103 HWY since road builders completed the twinning between Halifax and Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 just opened this fall, as we reported recently in The Notebook. It was more than...
Stymied Request For Sydney Port Deal Information On Agenda For New CBRM Council
By Corey LeBlanc SYDNEY — Mayor Amanda McDougall shares one of the items on the Nov. 24 agenda of the first monthly meeting of the newly-elected council in Cape Breton Regional Municipality. “Absolutely,” she says, when asked if council would be discussing a recent...
Fun Facts: Nova Scotia’s Five Most Popular Provincial Parks In 2020
By Andrew Macdonald The other day, one of the Nova Scotia government’s most able and efficient departmental spokespersons, Deborah J. Bayer, issued a news dispatch. At a former job, I used to rate the top PR folk in the government, and in a future edition I will...
MacPolitics: Dan O’Connor On Alexa McDonough’s Election 40 Years Ago As The First Woman To Lead A Political Party In Canada
News Item: On Nov. 16, 1980, Alexa McDonough became the first woman in Canada to lead a political party after winning the Nova Scotia NDP convention. This week, she marked her 40th anniversary with a small gathering, the crowd reduced because of the pandemic. Dan...
MacPolitics: Meet Derek Brett, An Iain Rankin Backer For Liberal Leadership
By Andrew Macdonald I thought of headlining this story 'Derek Brett This Week' because I recently featured Brett on his ecstatic thoughts on the Biden and Harris win, and once reported on his life in Florida and that he has met Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Since...
What Happened To Rudy Giuliani? Once Slayed Gambino Family Bosses In NYC But Subverting Democracy Today
By Andrew Macdonald Back in the 1990s, I read a true-life story on the rise and fall of one of America’s most infamous crime families, New York City’s Gambino Clan. The book was written by John H. Davis, a New Yorker who died in 2012. This book, published by...
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MacPolitics: The NS Liberal Contenders – Mary Clancy: ‘Not Disappointed But Would Have Been Delighted To See Woman Candidate For Premier’
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Mary Clancy - ‘Not Disappointed but would have been delighted to see a women candidate running for NS premier Prominent Liberal cheerleader and former Halifax MP Mary Clancy is backing Halifax Citadel MLA Labi Kousoulis for the Liberal...
MacPolitics: NDP Leader Gary Burrill: ‘Premier McNeil Irresponsible In Not Calling Fall Legislative Sitting’
By Andrew Macdonald The NS McNeil government is calling back the legislature in February - meaning the legislature in 2020 has only sat for 13-days. NDP leader Gary Burrill says the Liberal government is disrespecting Nova Scotians by not calling a fall sitting of the...
Lloyd Hines On NS Highway Twinning: ‘Razor Thin Margins On Tenders Shows Healthy Competition’
By Andrew Macdonald As The Notebook recently reported Lloyd Hines NS Transportation department opened a new twinned 11-kilometre route on the 103 HWY, the other week. It is the first twinning on the route in 20-25-years since Halifax-Upper Tantallon was twinned. The...
MacPolitics: Somehow I Doubt Tim Houston & Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday When They Met For Lunch – So Why Did They Meet?
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Some How I Doubt Tim Houston and Antigonish’s Sean Cameron Celebrated My Birthday, When They Had A Lunch This Week By Andrew Macdonald In the Town of Antigonish, a locale famous for its gossip rumour mill - and mostly, denizens get it...
Real Estate: Market Hot In Yarmouth Area With Some Multiple Offers, Realtors Report
By Andrew Macdonald It’s not just around the Halifax-Dartmouth region that homes are seeing multiple offers and going over the asking price. According to realtors in the southwestern Nova Scotia town of Yarmouth at the tip of the province, the practice is also...
Lloyd Hines: Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway On His Radar
By Andrew Macdonald Lloyd Hines On Twinning All The Way To Bridgewater & The Canso Causeway NS Highways minister Lloyd Hines admits he has been “salivating” over the new 11-kilometre twinned section of the 103 HWY, between Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 to the...
John Risley This Week: Bemoans Tedious Delays Of Highway Twinning In Nova Scotia
By Andrew Macdonald Let's start with a few highway twinning facts: 1. The first twinning of 103 HWY since road builders completed the twinning between Halifax and Upper Tantallon’s Exit 5 just opened this fall, as we reported recently in The Notebook. It was more than...
Stymied Request For Sydney Port Deal Information On Agenda For New CBRM Council
By Corey LeBlanc SYDNEY — Mayor Amanda McDougall shares one of the items on the Nov. 24 agenda of the first monthly meeting of the newly-elected council in Cape Breton Regional Municipality. “Absolutely,” she says, when asked if council would be discussing a recent...
Fun Facts: Nova Scotia’s Five Most Popular Provincial Parks In 2020
By Andrew Macdonald The other day, one of the Nova Scotia government’s most able and efficient departmental spokespersons, Deborah J. Bayer, issued a news dispatch. At a former job, I used to rate the top PR folk in the government, and in a future edition I will...
MacPolitics: Dan O’Connor On Alexa McDonough’s Election 40 Years Ago As The First Woman To Lead A Political Party In Canada
News Item: On Nov. 16, 1980, Alexa McDonough became the first woman in Canada to lead a political party after winning the Nova Scotia NDP convention. This week, she marked her 40th anniversary with a small gathering, the crowd reduced because of the pandemic. Dan...
MacPolitics: Meet Derek Brett, An Iain Rankin Backer For Liberal Leadership
By Andrew Macdonald I thought of headlining this story 'Derek Brett This Week' because I recently featured Brett on his ecstatic thoughts on the Biden and Harris win, and once reported on his life in Florida and that he has met Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Since...
What Happened To Rudy Giuliani? Once Slayed Gambino Family Bosses In NYC But Subverting Democracy Today
By Andrew Macdonald Back in the 1990s, I read a true-life story on the rise and fall of one of America’s most infamous crime families, New York City’s Gambino Clan. The book was written by John H. Davis, a New Yorker who died in 2012. This book, published by...
Last Sunday’s Edition, Below
MacPolitics: The NS Liberal Contenders – Mary Clancy: ‘Not Disappointed But Would Have Been Delighted To See Woman Candidate For Premier’
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Mary Clancy - ‘Not Disappointed but would have been delighted to see a women candidate running for NS premier Prominent Liberal cheerleader and former Halifax MP Mary Clancy is backing Halifax Citadel MLA Labi Kousoulis for the Liberal...
MacPolitics: NDP Leader Gary Burrill: ‘Premier McNeil Irresponsible In Not Calling Fall Legislative Sitting’
By Andrew Macdonald The NS McNeil government is calling back the legislature in February - meaning the legislature in 2020 has only sat for 13-days. NDP leader Gary Burrill says the Liberal government is disrespecting Nova Scotians by not calling a fall sitting of the...
Lloyd Hines On NS Highway Twinning: ‘Razor Thin Margins On Tenders Shows Healthy Competition’
By Andrew Macdonald As The Notebook recently reported Lloyd Hines NS Transportation department opened a new twinned 11-kilometre route on the 103 HWY, the other week. It is the first twinning on the route in 20-25-years since Halifax-Upper Tantallon was twinned. The...
