As The Notebook reported in a News Scoop last Saturday, a new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia will be built on the Halifax Waterfront. That original Saturday story, appears elsewhere on my website – but as I report in the next...
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By Andrew Macdonald By Andrew Macdonald This morning’s announcement that governments are giving $130-million to a new Art Gallery of NS to be built on Lower Water Street, on the Halifax Waterfront does not significantly include...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Here is what we are working on this Easter Weekend. The Notebook will publish an Easter Weekend edition, just as we have been publishing weekend editions since our launch in March, 2017 – we haven’t...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Pomerleau, of Bedford has been awarded today a construction contract for relocating the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s chemotherapy preparation lab. “As part of the QEII New Generation Project, the...
Read MoreWant proof Notebook sources get it right, all the time? We published this article last Saturday, in The Notebook. Have another read! By Andrew Macdonald What We’re Hearing On Saturday I took a call from a source in the Halifax...
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...
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Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald POSTED Wednesday, 2 p.m., April 17th, 2019: What We’re Hearing About the Art Gallery of NS, PART II Further to my story on Saturday that an announcement is taking place tomorrow April 18th regarding a new Art...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Halifax Port Authority is not commenting on my two news scoops yesterday, reporting that the Halterm Container Terminal has a new buyer. Working a multitude of port sources, yesterday at 4 p.m., and again...
Read MoreBy Carol Dobson If there was a musical equivalent of a state funeral, then the ’celebration of life’ for Peggy Corkum, 92, held Tuesday in Halifax would certainly qualify. She was a noted Halifax music philanthropist. It was...
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...
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Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Posted 5:30 p.m., Tuesday -News Scoop: Update: PSA International, Not CN, Halterm Suitor. Following the 4 p.m. News Scoop that a deal has been signed today to sell the Halterm Container Terminal, more sources...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Posted 4 p.m., Tuesday: Well placed sources inform The Macdonald Notebook that the Halterm Container Terminal has been sold, as of today. Macquarrie Infrastructure Partners had been attempting to sell the...
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Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald It’s official now: The Christian Science Church in Southend Halifax is in the process of selling its property at the corner of South Park and Inglis streets, adjacent St. Mary’s University, and its two...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald On Saturday, Pope Francis appointed a new RC Archbishop for Halifax-Yarmouth. Brian Dunn will replace long standing Halifax Archdiocese Bisop Tony Mancini, later this year – when Mancini turns 75, in...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Businessman Michel Hindlet has been chosen by the Sackville-Cobequid Liberal Association to be its standard-bearer in the riding for the upcoming provincial by-election. A date for the by-election has not...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald What We’re Hearing On Saturday I took a call from a source in the Halifax Community suggesting an important announcement is coming on April 18th from NSCAD University. And another source details to The...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: This article was first published in The Notebook on May 5th, 2018. It is repeated here, given the news article today that the church is selling its prime Halifax Southend corner lot. Christian Science Church...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: A year ago after I broke the news the Halifax Christian Science Church had been considering a sale of its Halifax Southend property, the Church sent a letter to The Notebook from its Canadian HQ in Ontario....
Read MoreChester-Halifax business person Stephen Mader wrote a Letter to the Editor in response to Mary Clancy’s column, which is elsewhere in this edition. Clancy wrote about Wilson-Raybould & Philpott. Here is Mader’s...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Halifax MP Andy Fillmore says he is satisfied the Halifax Port Authority is now undertaking public consultation on what any future expansion of the port will look like. The authority has posted an online...
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