By Andrew Macdonald Elizabeth & John Baillie: We’re Not Millionaires…But Bayers Lake industrial electrical entrepreneurs Elizabeth & John Baillie have just moved from being owner occupies of a Crane Lake Drive,...
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By Andrew Macdonald NS North Shore’s Housing Trends – A Hot Real Estate Market Just how hot is the housing trend on the charming Nova Scotia North Shore? Well, when the home of one term John Hamm backbencher Fluff Baillie...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As I noted on April 18th, general building contractor Pomerleau has won a multi-million dollar contract to relocate the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s chemotherapy preparation lab. The company has a...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald What We’re Hearing From Our Sources The Notebook is hearing that a major Burnside refrigeration contractor has just done a deal to sell his prominent business. Sources are informing us that serial...
Read MoreHow Chester Municipal Politico Danielle Barkhouse Rescued Toney Walker Road. I am hearing from some of my readers in seaside Chester, that after decades of fighting the NS Transportation department to solve a flooding problem on...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The Notebook heard from one of my Nova Scotia South Shore readers, who tells me on Good Friday a hummingbird went to her property—a fantastic sure sign of spring with summer then around the corner. If...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Transportation Minister Marc Garneau has appointed the next chief executive officer of Marine Atlantic, promoting from within the organization that links North Sydney to Newfoundland. Murray Hupman has just...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald South Shore winemaker Sean Sears and wife Barb Thompson, who are also Halifax and Antigonish business folk, have just expanded their alcohol empire. Sears, 59, has just done a deal to buy out Sober Island...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Hector Jacques, chairperson of the Halifax Port Authority, confirms that dozens of port staffers were given pay bonuses in 2018. I asked the port to get commentary from Jacques, who rarely speaks directly to...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Hector Jacques, chairperson of the Halifax Port Authority, is not commenting on my news scoops earlier this week of a new owner for the Halterm Container Terminal adjacent to Point Pleasant Park in the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Halifax Port Authority says there is no new information to report on the search for a replacement to outgoing chief executive officer Karen Oldfield. In February, The Notebook had a news scoop that...
Read MoreBy Carol Dobson When you walk into the Bread Lounge Bakery and Café in the Point North apartment building at Demone and Robie streets, your nostrils start to twitch with excitement as they smell the freshly baking bread. The...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker CHARLOTTETOWN—As a provincial election campaign heads into the final days, it is shaping up to be a three-way fight that could possibly produce the first minority government in the history of Prince Edward Island....
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The news in the high end restaurant industry in Halifax is the spectacular rise and fall of an eatery which is not yet a year old. I refer to the Exchange On Hollis Street, which was this week locked out of...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This article ran in a 2017 edition of The Notebook. Still considered a Maritime Eighth Wonder of The World, the fixed link to PEI turns 22-years old on May 31, 2019. By Andrew Macdonald Confederation Bridge,...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Some Notebook readers report they have been opening their seasonal cottages, and one discussion that needs to take place, as awkward as it can be, is how to transfer the cottage over to the next generation....
Read MoreEditor’s Note: The Notebook provided a one-year subscription (valued at $209) for a silent auction item for the Epilepsy Association. Here is their letter thanking The Notebook. If you have a charity silent auction, ask us...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald While I tend in adulthood to vote for the best candidate, as a teenager in the mid-1980s, I was a Liberal warrior because my father and grandfather voted Liberal. In adulthood, I have voted for Tories...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This article was published in The Notebook on August 25, 2017. It is an Encore presentation and a story on how to keep Last Will & Testaments out of the eyes of the nosy public. By Andrew Macdonald Rita...
Read MoreHiring a Veteran Communications specialist – Here we Grow Again By Andrew Macdonald Through subscription patronage from you, Dear Reader, I am pleased to report The Notebook has engaged well known Haligonian communications...
Read MoreBy Carol Dobson If there was a musical equivalent of a state funeral, then the celebration of life for Peggy Corkum, held Tuesday in Halifax would certainly qualify. Thw noted Halifax music philanthropist died in December at the...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Nova Scotia South Shore Liberal MP and Minister of Rural Economic Development Bernadette Jordan delivered this keynote speech at the funding announcement for a new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia: It’s a pleasure...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald If you are an advertiser considering an ad campaign in The Macdonald Notebook, you will reach a cross-section of age categories. Who reads The Macdonald Notebook? Using my readership measurement of Google...
Read MoreEditions of The Notebook from the weekday and the weekend before, are now under my Recent Issues button. The weekday and weekend prior editions featured the following news articles: Thursday: The Notebook sources from Saturday...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald It might seem like an odd way to foster sobriety, but the Nova Scotia Health Authority actually counsels some alcoholics seeking salvation from the bottle to continue drinking if they desire. It is not what...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald – a web link to Herald’s Bill Spurr and why his column is Required Reading The other day the Halifax Herald published an eye-opening article on a 20-something Halifamous chef—and how he conquered...
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