By Andrew Macdonald When Attorney General Caroline Mulroney of Ontario spoke at the recent annual general meeting of Nova Scotia Tories, she earned warm applause from party faithful for describing herself as “a daughter of a...
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By Andrew Macdonald Now that South Shore MP Bernadette Jordan is a member of the federal government cabinet in Ottawa, there is hope that could lead to twinning of Hwy. 103 — ALL the way from Halifax to Bridgewater. Jordan was...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald A move by then federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc to take away a quarter of the Arctic offshore clam quota from Clearwater Seafoods did not cause any friction between company founder John Risley and...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Halifax Stanfield Airport reached new heights in the number of passengers processed in 2018. A record of 4,316,079 passengers flew out or into the airport, a 5.7 per cent increase over the previous year says...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The decision a decade ago for the Port of Halifax to chase business from southeast Asia was controversial because Europe had been the bread and butter of the containerized cargo traffic. But the latest...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald With the federal Liberal government turning off its funding of the Coady Institute in Antigonish, drastic changes to the institute which teaches students in Third World countries were unveiled this week by...
Read MoreBy Chad Bowie Transparency’s the word these days down at Province House. The Tories and the NDP are quite right to draw attention the Liberals’ authoritarian tactics as they pertain to shutting down the Public Accounts committee...
Read MoreBy Andy Walker A Dutch-based company is the new owner of the Charlottetown operation of Diversified Metal Engineering. CIMC Enric Tank & Process BV (CETP) of the Netherlands takes over the Charlottetown operation, which had...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As politicians begin campaigning for this fall’s federal election—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Halifax this week and Conservative leader Andrew Scheer visited Nova Scotia a week ago—a new poll...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Liberal strategist Kirk Cox, who co-chaired the effort in 2015 that saw all 11 seats captured by the Justin Trudeau-led party, says he has no plans to go to Ottawa and serve as chief of staff to South Shore...
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