By Andrew Macdonald Three months ago, I carried a news article with this headline: The Notebook’s Mission In Life: Navigate The Crisis. As I wrote at the beginning of the pandemic, I touched on a former life of heavy drinking - copious beer bottle intake. “If there...
Don't Let News Break To The Point Of Breaking You By Alison Strachan During the pandemic, and generally spending more time on the homefront, the term used by news outlets that struck me most on Twitter and on news channel chyrons was Breaking News. I've come to the...
By Andrew Macdonald Coronavirus: Don Mills & Jim Mills Celebrity Roast Rescheduled for 2021 It was supposed to have been the charity seasonal event of the year. Halifax pollster Don Mills and his brother, Jim Mills, who is featured elsewhere in this edition...
As we head into the new norm of life, if you have not already read a must-read biography of the Life & Times Of Harry Steele, I recommend it for cottage reading this summer. Here is a book excerpt on the sale of the Halifax Daily News, in 1997 when then global...
By Andrew Macdonald With the pandemic, it looks like Nova Scotians will have to contend with spending their vacations in our fair province - and what is wrong with that? Nova Scotia is made for the summertime, when the music soundtrack goes onto George Gershwin's...
By Andrew Macdonald More on NS, NB and PEI tourism hot spots With folk in NS, NB, and PEI confined to spending their summers in their respective provinces, here is a news article detailing local tourism hot spots. Summertime in the Maritimes is made for heading to the...
By Andrew Macdonald How Tom Rose Conceived Newly Formed Atlantic Compassion Fund - During A Pandemic Halifax office furnishings mogul Tom Rose, who founded Atlantic Business Interiors, back in 1986, has significantly given back to his community. His inspired Atlantic...
By Alison Strachan Who else has spent some time sorting through photographs during the pandemic? While most of mine are digital, the May 18 issue of The New Yorker featured a woman sitting on the floor sorting through hundreds of print photos with the caption, "You're...
By Andrew Macdonald It's the discussion about the cottage that no one really wants to have — how to transfer the property oasis to the next generation. Difficult or not, it's a talk cottage dwellers need to have, says lawyer Catherine Watson, a tax specialist at...
By Andrew Macdonald Welcome to the second instalment of my new column, A Maritime Moment, which features landscape photography around Nova Scotia and we welcome photo submissions from our large readership. Our first column ran on Wednesday in The Notebook. Today’s...
