George Armoyan Sells Out At Spryfield’s Governor’s Brook. By Andrew Macdonald Halifax and suburban housing developer George Armoyan has met with significant success at a relatively new subdivision in Spryfield. He has just sold...
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By Andrew Macdonald Months away from turning Fifty is Nifty, leading regional Loblaw executive, Mark Boudreau and his husband, Dustin Ellisworth are happily living in Spryfield’s Governor’s Brook. Back in 2016, the couple bought...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald When Fierce Road Building Competitors Gather To Celebrate Their Industry By Andrew Macdonald The Nova Scotia taxpayer gets a break when Highways minister Lloyd Hines builds roads in the province. That’s...
Read MoreThe Macdonald Notebook’s Future…We Are Close To Making The Notebook a permanent media fixture in the Maritime But Still Need Your Kind Help By Andrew Macdonald This week The Notebook’s Subscription line was on...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald I have all the time in the world for exiting Strait area broadcasters Bob & Brenda MacEachern. After I ran my news scoop the other week that the married couple are selling CIGO-The Hawk FM, in Port...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker King takes attacks from other candidates in stride While he expressed disappointment in a series of attacks launched by his fellow candidates, Dennis King said it looks like his opponents agree with many political...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald One of my Top Tory Sources is telling The Macdonald Notebook that retiring politico Scott Brison could end up getting a job in Toronto with Air Canada. This coveted Tory source has never been wrong in a long...
Read MoreScott Brison Makes Notebook History: A Rehab, Bishop Colin and A Famous Stockbroker. By Andrew Macdonald My Macdonald Notebook news article published last weekend on Scott Brison: A Rehab House, The Bishop & A Famous...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Read by over 1,000 Business and Political junkies each weekend, The Notebook offers affordable advertisement rates. Over the past week, The Macdonald Notebook was read by 1,200 individuals, according to...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Macdonald Notebook Reader Endorsements. The Macdonald Notebook is turning two years old on March 17th, 2019 – and each weekend, we generate over 1,000 visits to our popular Inside Politics &...
Read MoreOpinion By Mary Clancy Finally! One hundred and fifty-two years after Confederation and nearly 98 years since Canada elected its first woman MP(Agnes MacPhail) and almost 62 years since the first woman was appointed to the...
Read MoreOpinion By Chad Bowie NS FEDERAL REPRESENTATION AT ALL-TIME LOW With the arguable exception of a brief period in the late 1990s when Prime Minister Jean Chretien was forced to call upon Senators to fulfill the role of Regional...
Read MoreThis was published in The Notebook earlier in the week. It is repeated here for the benefit of my readers, who missed it. By Andrew Macdonald I am excited and optimistic that perhaps now that Bernadette Jordan is among the folk...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald On Scott Brison’s replacement at the Trudeau cabinet, political pundits and even The Notebook suggested Cape Bretoner Rodger Cuzner would go to cabinet. In the end, first term NS South Shore MP Bernadette...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald This story was published in The Notebook earlier this week. It is repeated here today for the benefit of my readers who missed it. By Andrew Macdonald Can Rick Perkins Defeat Cabinet Minister Jordan? It is...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Stephen Adams has been a Halifax Regional Municipality councillor for 28 years, winning eight municipal elections over that time. With that type of political track record, the other day I asked the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald John Hello: He had a Name and Voice For Radio The other day, I learned that a former competitor of my days 30-years ago when I toiled at CIGO radio station, passed on. I am a bit late with this, and at early...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald This week’s Notebook American Political Youtube Parody actually mentions the name Nova Scotia in its parody song on Hillary Clinton. The parody is entitled: Hillary Is So Vain, and is a take off the 1972...
Read MoreThis News scoop ran earlier this week – it is repeated here for the benefit of readers who missed it earlier. By Andrew Macdonald How Bob & Brenda MacEachern Built A $2-million Radio Empire – in of all places,...
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