By Andrew Macdonald Nice job if you can get it. A NS Returning Officer in this provincial election can stand to earn $10,404 - nice pay if you can get it. The qualifications of being hired as a returning officer: “To work as a returning officer, you must be a Canadian...

By Andrew Macdonald Man about the town of Metro Halifax, Alex Handyside was on the job of serving as an NS Returning Officer, running and organizing the vote for Elections NS in the riding of Eastern Passage. I touched base with him on Friday. On Sunday, I heard from...

By Andrew Macdonald The August 17th, 2021 election is very easy to cast your ballot. You can vote anywhere in Nova Scotia, at returning offices, which are now open from 9 am to 6 p.m. If you are at the cottage you can also vote. You can vote, if you take a day trip...

By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: “Can I have your vote for a Pint of Run, a load of gravel’ In my lifetime, and I am in my early 50s, I have witnessed political vote-getters hand out a pint of rum - the electioneer placed it in a voter’s trunk in the mid-1980s. That...

Editor’s Note: Bruce Wark is a resident of Sackville, New Brunswick. He is retired from his long time perch as a professor at the King’s School of Journalism. He writes this opinion article, after The Notebook On Sunday published a Mainstreet Research political poll,...

Opinion By Sean Sears The first mate shouted I see land out there Nobody moved From where there were laying Cause nobody really-cared Santa Maria, Trooper Off we are to vote, for which bore, we consider for 15 more days more. There will be lots of shouts of land out...

By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Mainstreet Poll Shows Rankin Liberals have ‘strong lead’ The first political opinion poll to be released during the NS election has been released by Ottawa-based Mainstreet Research. The poll finds the Rankin Liberals has “a strong...

By Corey LeBlanc CAPE BRETON: NDP leader Gary Burrill says it is time for “something better for Cape Breton.” That pledge also serves as the title for the Nova Scotia NDP’s platform for the region, one that Burrill unveiled July 26 during a campaign stop in downtown...

By Andrew Macdonald Martha MacQuarrie: Top Tory Martha MacQuarrie makes allegations of harassment she faced from Tim Houston, Cameron MacKeen And Others A Top Tory and former Conservative Party of Canada candidate in Kings Hants in 2019 is taking NS PC leader Tim...

MacPolitics: Martha MacQuarrie - A Top Tory - Takes Aim At Tim Houston Tories - Calls Houston Hypocrite Topic: Top Tory Martha MacQuarrie Takes Aim At Those Who Pushed Her Out Of Seeking Tory Presidency - Calls Houston Attacks Against Rankin 'hypocritical' By Andrew...

Here is Martha MacQuarrie’s letter published verbatim, where she asks the PC Party of NS to “investigate” harassment she alleges she faced from PC leader Tim Houston and others. The MacQuarrie letter: "Progressive Conservative Party Code of Conduct Complaint; Below...

By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Tim Houston Campaign Team: ‘Who Gave You A Confidential Party Internal Letter’ - ‘No Comment On Martha MacQuarrie’s Explosive Letter That She Faced Party Harassment Having received from a source the explosive letter Martha MacQuarrie...