By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: John Risley For NS Liberal Premier The name of Chester billionaire titan John Risley is making the rounds as a successor to outgoing Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil. In, fact, a sophisticated and splashy website supporting the idea has...
MacPolitics: John Risley Had To Borrow $10,000 In 1976 To Buy Lobsters To Sell Out Of A Rented Half Ton - How Clearwater Seafoods Was Founded By Andrew Macdonald To Give you idea of how John Risley co-founded Clearwater Seafoods more than 40-years ago, here is an...
We've made our popular weekend read free from the subscription paywall - this weekend only. If you are not a subscriber to The Notebook have a read, and check out our Business & Inside Political coverage - and consider a subscription - it would support local...
By Andrew Macdonald Summertime And The Beaches Are Fun - But There are 23 lifeguarded beaches in Nova Scotia stretching from Yarmouth to Cape Breton, and these supervised beaches employ 80 university students as lifeguards, earning above the minimum wage. Since 1973,...
By Andrew Macdonald Exclusive: Maritime Loblaw Customers Raise Circa $300,000 For IWK Via A $2 Donation At Cash Registers In Just A Two Week Period So how much money does a giant retailer make when it asks each of its customers to donate $2 to a worthy cause? Well, in...
By Andrew Macdonald QE II Health Sciences Foundation Issues Security Breach To Its 70,000 Home Lottery Players It’s not the type of publicity the QE II Foundation is known for - but on Friday the purveyor of the ever-popular home and cottage lottery draws had to issue...
QE II Health Sciences Foundation - Part II By Andrew Macdonald The new boss of the QE II Health Sciences Foundation, CEO Susan Mullin took over the job in March 2020 - she replaced the now-retired Bill Bean, who logged 24-years at the hospital foundation. Mullin...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: The Political Intrigue of Chester-St. Margaret’s Denise Peterson Rafuse The former NDP MLA for Chester-St.Margaret’s Bay, Denise Peterson Rafuse has just taken a day job in Halifax. She is becoming the new executive director of...
By Andrew Macdonald NS PC leader Tim Houston has started to release policy platforms of how he will ask Nova Scotians to vote for him in the next provincial election. This week he announced a plan to build more nursing home centres, immediately add 2,500 single...
By Andrew Macdonald On the $465.75 million nursing home policy NS PC leader Tim Houston announced days ago - it is a costly plan, which taxpayers would have to pay for. A hallmark of the Liberal McNeil government has been to operate a fiscally conservative government,...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Now That Premier Stephen McNeil Is Bowing Out - What’s next for Party In Power? So, now that Premier Stephen McNeil has issued his blockbuster surprise announcement he is booking out at Freedom 55 - and won’t seek a historic third...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Why Sean Fraser Would Be In Real Competition In Race To Replace Premier Stephen McNeil Sean Fraser has proven he is not a one-hit-wonder on the political front. Now in his second term as Liberal MP in Central Nova, he won handily in...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Scott Brison As Premier: Tiny Village Of Cheverie Would Become Power Base - Again If Scott Brison makes a move to run for the successor to Premier Stephen McNeil, as premier he would once again return his beloved tiny village of...
Editor's Note: This article ran last January 2020, at the time Scott Brison's dad Clifford Brison passed on. Given the topical chatter of Scott Brison as a possible successor to Premier Stephen McNeil, it is being re-published. By Andrew Macdonald David Hennigar, a...
By Alison Strachan Lunenburg women have perhaps been the most important 'behind the scenes' asset to the town's history. During the roaring days of the fishery, women were the ones who remained on land, singlehandedly managing households and providing valuable...
Edith Morash's Lunenburg's Blueberry Buckle, p. 234 Dutch Oven Cookbook By Alison Strachan Because the recipe for this dessert may not be an easy read on a tablet or phone, we are providing a simplified version sans the endearing illustration in the Dutch Oven Cook...
By Andrew Macdonald A Maritime Photo Moment: Jon Dimick’s Artwork Includes 1902 Photograph Of The World’s First-Ever Seven-Masted Schooner Last weekend readers of my Maritime Photo Moment were treated to a rarity: a five-masted schooner in Antigonish Harbour in 1927....
By Andrew Macdonald Chester's Jon Dimick is not the only one to possess a rare 1902 photograph of the first ever built seven-masted schooner - down in Lunenburg, my Notebook contributor, Alison Strachan also has another picture of this vessel, the Thomas W. Lawson...
By Tom Peters Fox Harb’r Resort, near the Nova Scotia village of Wallace, turned 20 this year. I recall first stepping onto the property during construction. I had to announce myself through an intercom at the entry gate before I could proceed down Amazing Grace...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: John Risley For NS Liberal Premier The name of Chester billionaire titan John Risley is making the rounds as a successor to outgoing Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil. In, fact, a sophisticated and splashy website supporting the idea has...
MacPolitics: John Risley Had To Borrow $10,000 In 1976 To Buy Lobsters To Sell Out Of A Rented Half Ton - How Clearwater Seafoods Was Founded By Andrew Macdonald To Give you idea of how John Risley co-founded Clearwater Seafoods more than 40-years ago, here is an...
We've made our popular weekend read free from the subscription paywall - this weekend only. If you are not a subscriber to The Notebook have a read, and check out our Business & Inside Political coverage - and consider a subscription - it would support local...
By Andrew Macdonald Summertime And The Beaches Are Fun - But There are 23 lifeguarded beaches in Nova Scotia stretching from Yarmouth to Cape Breton, and these supervised beaches employ 80 university students as lifeguards, earning above the minimum wage. Since 1973,...
By Andrew Macdonald Exclusive: Maritime Loblaw Customers Raise Circa $300,000 For IWK Via A $2 Donation At Cash Registers In Just A Two Week Period So how much money does a giant retailer make when it asks each of its customers to donate $2 to a worthy cause? Well, in...
By Andrew Macdonald QE II Health Sciences Foundation Issues Security Breach To Its 70,000 Home Lottery Players It’s not the type of publicity the QE II Foundation is known for - but on Friday the purveyor of the ever-popular home and cottage lottery draws had to issue...
QE II Health Sciences Foundation - Part II By Andrew Macdonald The new boss of the QE II Health Sciences Foundation, CEO Susan Mullin took over the job in March 2020 - she replaced the now-retired Bill Bean, who logged 24-years at the hospital foundation. Mullin...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: The Political Intrigue of Chester-St. Margaret’s Denise Peterson Rafuse The former NDP MLA for Chester-St.Margaret’s Bay, Denise Peterson Rafuse has just taken a day job in Halifax. She is becoming the new executive director of...
By Andrew Macdonald NS PC leader Tim Houston has started to release policy platforms of how he will ask Nova Scotians to vote for him in the next provincial election. This week he announced a plan to build more nursing home centres, immediately add 2,500 single...
By Andrew Macdonald On the $465.75 million nursing home policy NS PC leader Tim Houston announced days ago - it is a costly plan, which taxpayers would have to pay for. A hallmark of the Liberal McNeil government has been to operate a fiscally conservative government,...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Now That Premier Stephen McNeil Is Bowing Out - What’s next for Party In Power? So, now that Premier Stephen McNeil has issued his blockbuster surprise announcement he is booking out at Freedom 55 - and won’t seek a historic third...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Why Sean Fraser Would Be In Real Competition In Race To Replace Premier Stephen McNeil Sean Fraser has proven he is not a one-hit-wonder on the political front. Now in his second term as Liberal MP in Central Nova, he won handily in...
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Scott Brison As Premier: Tiny Village Of Cheverie Would Become Power Base - Again If Scott Brison makes a move to run for the successor to Premier Stephen McNeil, as premier he would once again return his beloved tiny village of...
Editor's Note: This article ran last January 2020, at the time Scott Brison's dad Clifford Brison passed on. Given the topical chatter of Scott Brison as a possible successor to Premier Stephen McNeil, it is being re-published. By Andrew Macdonald David Hennigar, a...
By Alison Strachan Lunenburg women have perhaps been the most important 'behind the scenes' asset to the town's history. During the roaring days of the fishery, women were the ones who remained on land, singlehandedly managing households and providing valuable...
