By Andrew Macdonald Bernie Boudreau: What Went wrong with the John Savage government As Liberals gather in Halifax this weekend, party supporters are in a mood to celebrate. After all, in the 2016 provincial election, Stephen...
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By Andrew Macdonald Leading Halifax retail and office landlord, and condo developer Louis Reznick says there is no truth to a report he is planning on bringing in a food deli franchise out of New York to Downtown Halifax. The...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Next week, in The Notebook, we will report on why long time Haligonian entertainment czar, and concert promoter, Brookes Diamond was wining and dining a big wig entertainment exec from Los Angeles, around...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Six months before it opens for occupancy, the 16-storey Curve apartment building now under construction on South Park Street in downtown Halifax is reportedly 35 per cent pre-leased. That is the word from...
Read MoreBy Brendan Ahern If what you want is to start a successful microbrewery, it helps if you’re from Nova Scotia. That’s coming from Moncton-based microbrewing burgomaster Shaun Fraser, owner of the Pump House Brewery. “All the best...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker Premier Wade MacLauchlan likes to boast the economy of Canada’s smallest province is “on a tear.” The upbeat pronouncement from the former University of PEI president, who described himself as...
Read MoreOur recent coverage of a large cat in Antigonish County generated a few letters by some who argue my exclusive trail cam photo shows the rare, elusive Eastern Cougar. Avid hunter Gregg Keating, a businessman in Dartmouth and the...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The Kavanaugh confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court inflamed the political passions of Americans and many Canadians—on both sides of what became major drama. Here is the viewpoint of Cape Breton native Bruce...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Back in 1997 – 21-years ago – I wrote this for another media outlet, where I worked as an investigative reporter. Roger Bell was convicted and sent to Springhill Institution for nine years after...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Over the Thanksgiving weekend, while giving thanks to my sobriety efforts, and thankful of each and every single Notebook subscriber, I took the time to do what I love doing – talking to political...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Now read by one thousand readers each week, as The Macdonald Notebook enters its second year, primarily as a weekend news journal, we have ambitious plans for the future. At The Notebook we are toying with...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald St. Francis Xavier University’s PR department has been silent on a last Thursday media enquiry The Macdonald Notebook made of the school’s communications department. On Thursday, I asked Cindy MacKenzie a...
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