For the record, this is the way Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston announced switch-out of a Cape Breton Tory contender. The official PC Party news release of Aug. 14 follows: Ryan named PC candidate in...
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By Carol Dobson Expect to see shovels in the ground within the next year as one of the final ‘free’ spaces along the Halifax waterfront is developed by Southwest Properties owner Jim Spatz. On Monday, Aug. 12, Southwest hosted...
Read MoreBy Tim Olive To put this whole concept of a new commercial airport in Inverness bringing air traffic to the region, perhaps we should be looking at what needs to be done at the Port Hawkesbury airport to encourage bringing...
Read MoreFollowing is a letter to community members and stakeholders of the Maritime Conservatory Of Performing Arts from board chair Will Webster: We, members of the Conservatory board of governors, write in response to concerns raised...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Prominent Dartmouth undertaker Donald K. Walker says the funeral trend in metro Halifax and rural Nova Scotia these days is for cremation, rather than a traditional casket and burial. That can create...
Read MoreBy Mary Ellen MacIntyre I once met a man who collected antique icons. A very wealthy man, he traveled throughout eastern Europe scooping up as many religious icons as he could convince people to sell him. His pockets were deep...
Read MoreWhen Tall Ships visit the Port of Halifax, the vessels often display splendid wooden figureheads on their bows, and to understand the marine heritage of these often female adornments, I spoke with Roger Marsters, curator of...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker A member of the powerful Irving family has acquired an additional 2,200 acres of prime farmland on Prince Edward Island, and many within the agriculture community see a direct challenge to the promise by the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As if on cue, a threatening fog off Blandford rolled back and fresh winds picked up just as races started for Day 2 of Helly Hansen Chester Race Week on Mahone Bay on the beautiful South Shore. “Sailing...
Read MoreHenry Demone has a real love of the iconic Bluenose daysailer. He is so dedicated to the one-design craft that in 2015 he passed up an opportunity to meet then Opposition leader Justin Trudeau at the stunning mansion John Dimick...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald If you are in the market for a charming steady sailboat to ply the Maritime waters, then this article might be of interest to you. My brother is selling his Ontario 32, named ‘Tir Ard Nighean’,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald South Shore winemaker Sean Sears and wife Barb Thompson, who are also Halifax and Antigonish business folk, have expanded their alcohol empire. Sears, 59, has done a deal to buy out Sober Island Brewery, a...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald It’s been three years since Robert Risley closed Maritime Frame-It, the art frame shop, a move partially related to the loss of thousands of historic Wallace MacAskill negatives when Risley’s National...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Perhaps one of the most famous summer residents in the Bras d’Or Lake community of Dundee is Rod Bryden, owner of the National Hockey League team Ottawa Senators from its conception in 1992 until 2003....
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This article first ran in The Macdonald Notebook on July 21, 2017. By Andrew Macdonald The largest employer in New Ross is the charming Ross Farm Museum, where a farm was founded in 1817 and which...
Read MoreLunch with Alison: Sharon and Guy Cranston — Where and What did we eat? By Alison Strachan My guests chose to eat at Salt Shaker Deli, owned by Martin and Sylvie Ruiz Salvador on what has quickly become ‘food...
Read MoreA summer job at Pier 22 was all it took for Melissa Carey to learn she loved the food service industry. Carey, now general manager of the Shuck Seafood & Raw Bar on Salter Street, has stayed with owners and industry titans...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The seaside community of Arisaig in Antigonish County is famed for the quality of its lobster, robust fossil treasures, and its beach, but a German immigrant is putting the fishing village and summer cottage...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This story ran last year and is being re-published to give a sense of current NDP MLA Lenore Zann’s background. She is in the news for her ambition to go to Ottawa as the Liberal MP for Cumberland...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald In a future edition of The Macdonald Notebook, I will bring you a story of a UK couple – he is a trained Nazi Stolen Art investigator, and his wife is a trained Belly Dancer, who grew up in the Ukraine....
Read MoreOver the next few editions of The Macdonald Notebook, I will publish a series of Women In The Construction/Building trades. I recently chatted with two female electricians being employed by large international building...
Read MoreWith landscape photography a hobby of mine since grade nine, The Macdonald Notebook is presenting a new feature: A Maritime Moment, featuring my thousands of landscape pictures across the region. In grade nine and again in grade...
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