By Andrew Macdonald The CEO of Southwest Properties Gordon Laing says road work tenders will be by invitation only for the ten-year residential build-out of the former Sisters of Charity Motherhouse project at Rockingham, near...
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By Andrew Macdonald Trevor Floyd has joined Public Affairs company Iris Communications, founded by Kirby McVicar, a government lobbyist firm. Floyd, a Halifax resident, who is from Antigonish, recently left his former job at...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Gift That Gives All Year Long As the Yuletide takes hold in our weekend news coverage area of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, a unique gift for that loved one, or colleague or client, is a...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Nearly two years old, The Macdonald Notebook had 3,500 individuals visit our website in October – that’s why we added a lemon wedge to our glass of water to celebrate – it’s not...
Read MoreBy Alison Strachan The owner of the Macdonald Notebook knows how to cajole. I’m actually grateful for that. As a close friend of mine, he cajoled me into putting myself outside my comfort zone to interview people in the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald An Opposition knock against the Trudeau Liberals on social media is often a refrain the 32 Liberal MPs from the Atlantic are not standing up for the region. The other month, pollster Don Mills sent out a...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Top Tory Chris d’Entremont, a 15-year French Shore MLA, who plans to seek the federal Conservative nomination in West Nova, believes there are several Nova Scotia federal seats that will be in play for the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald On the $60-billion Irving Shipyard 15 combat warships and six Arctic patrol vessel program to be built by the Trudeau government in Halifax, Tory MLA Chris d’Entremont says if the Tories form power in Ottawa...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald I recently caught up to former John Savage cabinet minister Bernie Boudreau, now a significant shareholder of a publicly-traded cannabis entity, based in Montreal. Among the topics we discussed was the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald A new poll from Corporate Research & Associates has found that half of HRM residents favour splitting up the municipality into separate urban/rural governments. Forty-eight percent support the creation of...
Read MoreGary Phillipe Since the 15th century, antipasto is the beginning of a formal Italian meal (Latin ante meaning ‘before’ and pastus ‘meal’). Plates of cured meats, olives, anchovies, mushrooms, cheeses, and vegetable in oil and...
Read MoreOpinion By Chad Bowie Nova Scotians may soon elect more MLAs. The independent commission charged with redrawing the province’s electoral map released its interim report last week. The Electoral Boundaries Commission is calling...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: A technical glitch prevented this podcast from appearing last weekend. By Jordi Morgan Podcast with Wadih Fares, President of W.M. Fares Group. Wadih came to Halifax in the 1970s as a young man when a war...
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