Haligonian Restaurateurs Tony Nahas & Brother Peter Nahas To Expand Across NS, NB & PEI – Also Eye The Nation Markets With Mezza
Real Estate: Broker Ryan Hartlen Suggests Dropping Deed Transfer Tax For First Time Home Buyers
Re/Max Nova: Annual Sales Volume Up 28% & Moving Into A Purchased HQ
Housing Crisis: Nova Scotia Association Of Realtors Has A Few Ideas To Address Province-Wide Crisis
MacPolitics: True Cost To Fire Deputy Ministers Will Never be Known But Tim Houston Takes A Humane Approach On The Fired Deputies
MacPolitics: Days Before Federal Vote, Andy Fillmore Ditched Traditional Liberal Logo & Avoided Mention Of Justin Trudeau
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Crafting An International Following And A Best-Selling Book
David Phillips’ New Job As CEO Of Truro & Colchester Partnership: First Priority Addressing Housing Crisis In Hub Town
David Phillips, Part II: How Does A Truro Lad End Up Getting Hired By Bill Gates’ Microsoft?
From The Archives: Truro Lawyer Ron Chisholm Advocates Halifax-Truro Commuter Rail
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Reporters Without Borders: Nobel Peace Prize To Journalists Highlights Importance Of Media
MacPolitics: Just Like That – Tim Houston Quickly Delivers On Promise Of Fixed-Date Nova Scotia Elections
MacPolitics: Iain Rankin’s Summertime Election Contrition
Haligonian Restaurateurs Tony Nahas & Brother Peter Nahas To Expand Across NS, NB & PEI – Also Eye The Nation Markets With Mezza
By Andrew Macdonald TOPIC: Haligonian Restaurateurs Tony Nahas & His Brother Peter Nahas Take NS, NB & PEI By Storm - With Aggressive Expansion Plans For Mezza Mezza to open 12 new locations throughout Maritimes Thirty-year-old Halifax restaurant chain Mezza...
Real Estate: Broker Ryan Hartlen Suggests Dropping Deed Transfer Tax For First Time Home Buyers
By Andrew Macdonald Re/Max Nova broker Ryan Hartlen says dropping or delaying the deed transfer tax would help first-time homebuyers get on the property ladder - but also says the housing crisis across the province is the result of a lack of listings. With multiple...
Re/Max Nova: Annual Sales Volume Up 28% & Moving Into A Purchased HQ
By Andrew Macdonald Re/Max Nova’s broker Ryan Hartlen says annual sales at the realtor entity is up 28%, over the previous 12-months. That underscores how the pandemic has been good for sellers, with multiple offers and purchase and sales deals going well over asking...
Housing Crisis: Nova Scotia Association Of Realtors Has A Few Ideas To Address Province-Wide Crisis
By Andrew Macdonald The Nova Scotia Association of Realtors (NSAR) has a few ideas to help address a province-wide housing crisis. Chiefly the association believes the deed transfer tax be waived for first-time homebuyers. Secondly, the entity believes in increasing...
MacPolitics: True Cost To Fire Deputy Ministers Will Never be Known But Tim Houston Takes A Humane Approach On The Fired Deputies
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: True Cost To Fire Eight Deputy Ministers Will Never Be Known On August 31st, 2021 on the first day as new PC premier, Tim Houston fired six deputy ministers and two associate deputies. Later on, a government spokesman told me the...
MacPolitics: Days Before Federal Vote, Andy Fillmore Ditched Traditional Liberal Logo & Avoided Mention Of Justin Trudeau
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Days Before Federal Election, Andy Fillmore Ditched Traditional Liberal Logo In a curious move, the weekend before the federal election, in a tight election in the riding of Halifax, incumbent Andy Fillmore ditched any idea he was a...
Saturday Edition Below…….
Crafting An International Following And A Best-Selling Book
By Corey LeBlanc The first stitches in the fabric of an amazing story of how love for an art form has turned into a global phenomenon were made in rural Ontario. That’s where Michael Sellick learned how to crochet as a teenager. “I grew up in the country,” he...
David Phillips’ New Job As CEO Of Truro & Colchester Partnership: First Priority Addressing Housing Crisis In Hub Town
By Andrew Macdonald David Phillips' New Job As CEO Of Truro & Colchester Partnership The board of directors of the Truro & Colchester Partnership for Economic Prosperity has appointed from within, making former business development agent J. David Phillips, 55,...
David Phillips, Part II: How Does A Truro Lad End Up Getting Hired By Bill Gates’ Microsoft?
By Andrew Macdonald David Phillips, Part II: How Does A Truro Lad Get Hired By Bill Gates’ Microsoft In this sidebar article, Part II, on Truro native David Phillips, 55, he explains how he got hired by Bill Gates, at Microsoft - it’s kinda neat to think a lad in...
From The Archives: Truro Lawyer Ron Chisholm Advocates Halifax-Truro Commuter Rail
As a sidebar article to the above story on David Phillips becoming CEO of the Truro-Colchester Partnership and taking a long term view of a commuter rail between Halifax and Truro, I present this archived article from The Notebook in 2017. It still makes sense today....
Not Yet A Notebook Insider? We Are Affordably Priced And Offer A Well-Heeled Readership For Your Advertising, Too
By Andrew Macdonald The Macdonald Notebook reaches sophisticated and often well-heeled readers in Nova Scotia, particularly in Halifax, and we have a strong readership on the NS South Shore, Antigonish and Cape Breton. We have a lot of readers in Truro, too. Our...
Reporters Without Borders: Nobel Peace Prize To Journalists Highlights Importance Of Media
By Andrew Macdonald The Macdonald Notebook celebrates its fifth year in business this coming March. Since we launched on March 17, 2017, we have posted more than 5,300 stories on this popular weekend website. I became a media entrepreneur in 2017 without any grants or...
MacPolitics: Just Like That – Tim Houston Quickly Delivers On Promise Of Fixed-Date Nova Scotia Elections
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Tim Houston Delivers On Promise Of Fixed-Date NS elections Living up to his campaign promise, new Premier Tim Houston has set the next Nova Scotia general election for July, 2025. It means NS will become the last province to have a...
MacPolitics: Iain Rankin’s Summertime Election Contrition
By Andrew Macdonald Pundits weighed in when Liberal premier Iain Rankin called the summer election for Aug. 17. The pundits said the Liberals wanted to take advantage of voters largely being distracted in a summer vote, with many people at the cottage, cabin, chalet...
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