By Andrew Macdonald Prominent Halifax-Chester realtor Rick Foster is one of the leading movers of million-plus dollar mansions around Halifax, and also into the South Shore. But a fun real estate fact is that his first ever...
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to a new Notebook feature, ‘Moving Up The Ladder — Executives On The Rise’, in which we profile Halifax and Nova Scotia executives. This inaugural column is by my new hire, Phil DeMont,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As part of my new focus on up and coming millennial entrepreneurs, I sat down with Dave Culligan who just days ago expanded his Halifax-headquartered video production, content, branding and strategy advice...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald As I noted in my third instalment of the new feature ‘Meet A Millennial Entrepreneur’ about Dave Culligan’s new two-year-old enterprise in the agency world, one of his new business savvy advisory...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Over the last month, I have focused my attention on a recent trend in the Halifax Northend — the scene of multiple offers and buyers paying over the asking prices for homes in this vibrant and now upcoming...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Last weekend, I carried the shocking and sad news of the sudden death of Larry Sowerby, dean of the Halifax commercial brokerage community. The 40-year broker veteran was only 69. Over the past 20 years...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Larry Wark, a well known Halifax and Atlantic Canada union leader in the 1980s and ’90s, rose to prominence 30 years ago fighting for thousands of fish plant workers who were displaced by the northern...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Over recent issues, I have been reporting that Notebook sources say a plan to expand the Michelin plant in Bridgewater could create 200 new jobs. Larry Wark, who tried unsuccessfully 13 times in the 1980s and...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The word is that Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Minister Lloyd Hines won’t be in a position to name winners of the $300 million project to twin 40-kilometres of Hwy. 104 at the Jan. 23 annual...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald “I’m in. Stay tuned,” tweeted Peter MacKay this week announcing on social media he is going to be a candidate for the federal Conservative leadership convention in June. The former MP for Central Nova is...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald A state funeral on Thursday in St. John’s was the sendoff for Liberal-turned-Tory politico John Crosbie who died Jan. 10 at age 88. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and 1980s PM Brian Mulroney were among the...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Following my exclusive series of articles on famous stockbroker Clifford Brison’s sendoff, there was pushback from a Scott Brison political backer from deep in the Annapolis Valley. Clifford died the other...
Read MoreMore On Ketch Harbour’s Jurij Senyshyn & More On Robert Zed The Busines Mentor I recently reported that Jurij Senyshyn has six degrees of separation with 1960s UK music sensation, Sir Clif Richard and noted Senyshyn is...
Read MoreFolk, that is the end if the Saturday, Jan. 18th edition of The Notebook. The below articles ran during the weekday.
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Another well placed Notebook insider Source: Michelin Bridgewater Expansion ‘A Definite Go’ By Andrew Macdonald Further to my breaking news the other week in The Macdonald Notebook where well placed sources...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Pollster Don Mills & Leading Office Furnishing Titan Don Mills & His Brother Jim Mills To Take Part In Celebrity Arthritis Society Roast. Forty-year Halifax pollster Don Mills & his brother, Jim...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Politico John Crosbie’s Famous Nova Scotia Rehab Connection To be certain the recently departed Newfoundland politico, John Crosbie did not have a drinking problem. If anything, former Globe & Mail...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Life & Times Of Ex-Premier John Savage Is Now In A New Must Read Book – Just Published Nearly 30-years ago Liberal John Savage steam rolled to power in 1993 – there was real optimism and...
Read MoreBook Excerpt: ‘Against the Grain: A Biography of Dr. John Savage’ How John Savage and Richie Mann had fortitude, vision and determination to build a safer highway – the Cobequid Toll Pass By Lindsay Ruck...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Notebook Archives: More On Crosbie House, Don Mills and Jim Mills Further to today’s news coverage on Crosbie House, and the upcoming Arthritis Celebrity Roast for siblings Don & Jim Mills, here are some...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Bedford West Residential Subdivision Builders Maureen Donovan and Tamara Barker-Watson Innovate In A Male Dominated Industry I have my marching orders from The Notebook Advisory Board to expand my business...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Moving Van Titans Bury A Celebrated Row – Bickering Replaced With Warm Relations A decade ago, I found myself at a courtroom at the Halifax Law Courts on the Halifax Waterfront, where acrimony and nasty...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Dartmouth- based Nick Betts, is a former president of Jodrey Biz Empire Clan’s reisdential subdivision builder, David Hennigar’s Annapolis Group. He writes in on the news we have just hired...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Chester-Halifax Business Leader Tim Moore: ‘Donald Trump Is Culpable In Airplane Crash That Claimed 57 Canadian Lives From Naples, Florida, his wintertime condo, serial entrepreneur, Tim Moore contacted The...
Read MoreBy Phil DeMont Last December, the Trudeau government admitted that the federal budget shortfall was bigger than the Feds originally predicted. If the Halifax audience on the first day of Ottawa’s pre-budget consultations is an...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Opinion Where Is Scott Brison When We Need His Financial Prudence While Justin Trudeau Spends Us Into Debt Oblivion? As my new Notebook writer, four decade long Toronto-Halifax financial journalist, Phil...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Development: Louie Lawen Opens The Flynn Apartments To Tenants – The Latest Downtown HFX Residential High Rise For the Downtown Halifax apartment and condo scene, another exciting development to witness...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald I am pleased to announce Financial Journalist PHIL DEMONT is joining The Notebook Team. A native of Halifax, Phil DeMont has spent four decades reporting on Canadian and international business, economics and...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: From time to time The Notebook carries messages from politicos from all parties. This is a year-end statement from Premier Stephen McNeil: PREMIER’S OFFICE– Premier Reflects on Nova...
Read MoreEditor’s note: From time to time we give space to messages from our politicians – we give ink to members of all parties. The following is Allan MacMaster’s Annual Report. He is the Tory MLA for Inverness County...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald When Biz Titans Go About Clipping Grocery Store Coupons Seeking Retail Bargains – Meet Some Wealthy Penny Pinchers On the weekend, The Notebook featured a story on David Hennigar, and his warm memories...
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By Andrew Macdonald Syrian Refugee Needs Donations To Open Tailor Shop In New Adopted Home Of Antigonish – He’s Candy Maker Tareq Hadhad’s Uncle Nova Scotia is a land of immigrants – other than the Indigenous people,...
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Well known longtime journalist Jordi Morgan, now a lobbyist with a business and entrepreneur organization, sat down with Tareq Hadhad, the Syrian refugee, who is now CEO of Peace By Chocolates. Further to my...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald The Peace by Chocolate Nova Scotian success story has been told all over the world, and now comes word the Hadhad family are going to become Official Citizens of their adopted country, Canada. So significant...
Read MoreHalifax Commercial Brokerage Community Mourns Death Of 40-year Broker Veteran Larry Sowerby At Age 69 By Andrew Macdonald Jan. 12th, 2020 The Macdonald Notebook – Halifax, NS The tight knit but competitive Halifax Real...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Well placed Notebook news sources are telling me that NS Highways minister Lloyd Hines will announce the road building consortium picked to twin the 40-kilometre 104 HWY, at the annual mid-January gathering...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald Clifford Brison Sendoff: A Son Fondly Remembers His Dad – Politico/banker Scott Brison In Conversation As I chronicled in the Notebook Today dispatches, published earlier in the week, corner store...
Read MoreBy Andrew Macdonald I didn’t go to the Saturday Cheverie funeral of Clifford Brison, the corner store operator who later in life became a famous stockbroker to wealthy NS business titans, to cover it per se for The Notebook....
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