By Andrew Macdonald On Friday, I had a chit chat with Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister Lloyd Hines on the topic of the soon to open twinning on the 103 HWY. If you can imagine, the first twinning to be undertaken on the highway cutting through...
Highways Minister Lloyd Hines On Twinning ALL The Way To Bridgewater & Canso Causeway, And Will Fire Chief Joe Open Twinned 103 Section?
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Prayers Answered For ’50 Years-Plus’ Journalist Al Hollingsworth, 84
By Andrew Macdonald Al Hollingsworth, 84, was discharged from the Halifax Infirmary on Friday after treatment for congestive heart failure. The legendary broadcaster, political journalist, and Maritime Sports Hall of Fame inductee was admitted to the hospital earlier...
Tom Peters’ Golf Tour: Playing At St. Andrew’s In Scotland
By Tom Peters It was another memorable photo on the Swilcan Bridge, that iconic, short stone span that crosses the Swilcan Burn on the 18th fairway of the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. No, it wasn’t a shot of Tom Watson bidding farewell to The Open or Zach...
MacPolitics: Lloyd Hines: ‘If I Was 10 Years Younger, I’d Run For Premier’s Job’
By Andrew Macdonald The race for the Nova Scotia Liberal leadership and the premier’s post so far has been a media story of who is not going to run. But, Labi Kousoulis is assembling a campaign team, while leadership challenges are also expected from other cabinet...
MacPolitics: Scott & Max Fought Intensely Over Run For Liberal Leadership
By Andrew Macdonald Word reaching The Notebook is that the household of Scott Brison and Max St. Pierre saw a fight over whether Brison would re-enter politics and run for the Nova Scotia Liberal leadership with its automatic prize of becoming premier. I put the...
MacPolitics: Say It Ain’t So: For The Record Nancy Regan Won’t Be A Liberal Contender To Replace Premier Stephen McNeil
By Andrew Macdonald With no official contender yet to take over from retiring Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil, I’ve been left to speculate on possible suitors for the Liberal leadership, and the automatic prize of becoming premier. Earlier this week, I speculated...
MacPolitics: Will Dale Palmeter Follow Lead Of Brison Bagmen And Back Labi Kousoulis?
By Andrew Macdonald In an interesting development, the two Jonathans — Jonathan Norwood and Jonathan Meretsky — are backing an expected campaign from Halifax Citadel MLA Labi Kousoulis to succeed Premier Stephen McNeil as leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party....
MacPolitics: Health Minister Randy Delorey Promises Improvements In Long-Term Care Following Northwood Review
By Andrew Macdonald Health Minister Randy Delorey says the Nova Scotia government is preparing for future cases of Covid-19 following recommendations contained in two reviews of outbreaks in long-term care facilities, in particular Northwood Manor on Gottingen Street....
MacPolitics: Q&A With PC Leader Tim Houston On Northwood Review
By Andrew Macdonald After the Nova Scotia government's release of recommendations of the Northwood Manor review following the death of 53 seniors from Covid-19 related illnesses, The Notebook undertook a Q&A with Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston....
TV Pop Culture: Where, Oh Where, Has Time Gone? 40 Years Ago, World Gripped By Question ‘Who Shot J.R. Ewing?’
By Andrew Macdonald It spawned t-shirts with "I shot J.R." but the question of who really shot the fictional TV character gripped the world in 1980. What am I referring to, you ask? Well, this is a story about TV pop culture. Forty years ago, J.R, Ewing was shot in...
MacHistory: Remembering The Celebrated ‘UFO Crash’ Oct 4, 1967, In Shag Harbour
By Andrew Macdonald On Friday, Oct. 4, 1967, the historic and tiny fishing community of Shag Harbour, on the South Shore of Nova Scotia made international news headlines. An unidentified flying object — a UFO — reportedly crashed into the harbour on that day 53 years...
MacHistory: Harry Evans, The UK Editor Who Taught David Bentley Everything He Knows Now About Journalism, Dies At 92
By Andrew Macdonald “The one immutable rule of journalism: “Things are not what they seem on the surface. Dig deeper, dig deeper, dig deeper.” - Harold Evans The other day, a giant of the United Kingdom press passed on. Harold Evans was 92. He’s the editor who gave...
The Notebook Soundtrack: I Once Toiled For Giants Of Journalism Who Hailed From England, But As A Proud Scot I Turned To Scottish Battle Songs At Contract Negotiation Times
By Andrew Macdonald For 23 of my 32 years in the news business, beginning in gritty, industrial, and perennially job-starved Port Hawkesbury, I toiled with two media entrepreneurs who came from England. David Bentley and Lyndon Watkins would most likely have made...
Notebook Soundtrack, II: She Put The ‘Great’ Back In Great Britain — A Parody Of The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher
By Andrew Macdonald My robust millennial readers weren’t around when Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher ruled the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Born Margaret Hilda Roberts in England in 1925, she died in 2013. She was the longest-serving British prime minister...
Earlier Editions This Past Week
Highways Minister Lloyd Hines On Twinning ALL The Way To Bridgewater & Canso Causeway, And Will Fire Chief Joe Open Twinned 103 Section?
By Andrew Macdonald On Friday, I had a chit chat with Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister Lloyd Hines on the topic of the soon to open twinning on the 103 HWY. If you can imagine, the first twinning to be undertaken on the highway cutting through...
Prayers Answered For ’50 Years-Plus’ Journalist Al Hollingsworth, 84
By Andrew Macdonald Al Hollingsworth, 84, was discharged from the Halifax Infirmary on Friday after treatment for congestive heart failure. The legendary broadcaster, political journalist, and Maritime Sports Hall of Fame inductee was admitted to the hospital earlier...
Tom Peters’ Golf Tour: Playing At St. Andrew’s In Scotland
By Tom Peters It was another memorable photo on the Swilcan Bridge, that iconic, short stone span that crosses the Swilcan Burn on the 18th fairway of the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. No, it wasn’t a shot of Tom Watson bidding farewell to The Open or Zach...
MacPolitics: Lloyd Hines: ‘If I Was 10 Years Younger, I’d Run For Premier’s Job’
By Andrew Macdonald The race for the Nova Scotia Liberal leadership and the premier’s post so far has been a media story of who is not going to run. But, Labi Kousoulis is assembling a campaign team, while leadership challenges are also expected from other cabinet...
MacPolitics: Scott & Max Fought Intensely Over Run For Liberal Leadership
By Andrew Macdonald Word reaching The Notebook is that the household of Scott Brison and Max St. Pierre saw a fight over whether Brison would re-enter politics and run for the Nova Scotia Liberal leadership with its automatic prize of becoming premier. I put the...
MacPolitics: Say It Ain’t So: For The Record Nancy Regan Won’t Be A Liberal Contender To Replace Premier Stephen McNeil
By Andrew Macdonald With no official contender yet to take over from retiring Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil, I’ve been left to speculate on possible suitors for the Liberal leadership, and the automatic prize of becoming premier. Earlier this week, I speculated...
MacPolitics: Will Dale Palmeter Follow Lead Of Brison Bagmen And Back Labi Kousoulis?
By Andrew Macdonald In an interesting development, the two Jonathans — Jonathan Norwood and Jonathan Meretsky — are backing an expected campaign from Halifax Citadel MLA Labi Kousoulis to succeed Premier Stephen McNeil as leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party....
MacPolitics: Health Minister Randy Delorey Promises Improvements In Long-Term Care Following Northwood Review
By Andrew Macdonald Health Minister Randy Delorey says the Nova Scotia government is preparing for future cases of Covid-19 following recommendations contained in two reviews of outbreaks in long-term care facilities, in particular Northwood Manor on Gottingen Street....
MacPolitics: Q&A With PC Leader Tim Houston On Northwood Review
By Andrew Macdonald After the Nova Scotia government's release of recommendations of the Northwood Manor review following the death of 53 seniors from Covid-19 related illnesses, The Notebook undertook a Q&A with Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston....
TV Pop Culture: Where, Oh Where, Has Time Gone? 40 Years Ago, World Gripped By Question ‘Who Shot J.R. Ewing?’
By Andrew Macdonald It spawned t-shirts with "I shot J.R." but the question of who really shot the fictional TV character gripped the world in 1980. What am I referring to, you ask? Well, this is a story about TV pop culture. Forty years ago, J.R, Ewing was shot in...
MacHistory: Remembering The Celebrated ‘UFO Crash’ Oct 4, 1967, In Shag Harbour
By Andrew Macdonald On Friday, Oct. 4, 1967, the historic and tiny fishing community of Shag Harbour, on the South Shore of Nova Scotia made international news headlines. An unidentified flying object — a UFO — reportedly crashed into the harbour on that day 53 years...
MacHistory: Harry Evans, The UK Editor Who Taught David Bentley Everything He Knows Now About Journalism, Dies At 92
By Andrew Macdonald “The one immutable rule of journalism: “Things are not what they seem on the surface. Dig deeper, dig deeper, dig deeper.” - Harold Evans The other day, a giant of the United Kingdom press passed on. Harold Evans was 92. He’s the editor who gave...
The Notebook Soundtrack: I Once Toiled For Giants Of Journalism Who Hailed From England, But As A Proud Scot I Turned To Scottish Battle Songs At Contract Negotiation Times
By Andrew Macdonald For 23 of my 32 years in the news business, beginning in gritty, industrial, and perennially job-starved Port Hawkesbury, I toiled with two media entrepreneurs who came from England. David Bentley and Lyndon Watkins would most likely have made...
Notebook Soundtrack, II: She Put The ‘Great’ Back In Great Britain — A Parody Of The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher
By Andrew Macdonald My robust millennial readers weren’t around when Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher ruled the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Born Margaret Hilda Roberts in England in 1925, she died in 2013. She was the longest-serving British prime minister...
