By Andrew Macdonald Gotta Love It: An Old-Fashioned Newspaper War In Halifax In the news trenches for 32-years now, you learn long ago not to rest on any laurels - you don’t rest on providing breaking news stories, nor news scoops, nor exclusive news articles. In this...
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Gotta Love It: In Case You Did Not Know It, There’s An Old-Fashioned Newspaper War In The City Of Halifax – Notebook News Scoops Being Scalped By Another Media Outlet
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Halifax City Hall Has A Plan To Cut Down 48 Mature Stately Trees in Historic Schmidtville – And HRM Wanted To Keep This Plan ‘Top Secret’
By Andrew Macdonald Halifax City Hall Wants To Cut Down 48 Trees in Historic Schmidtville - Residents ‘Shocked’ Halifax City Hall wanted to keep a plan to mow down - cut down, chainsaw - 48 mature trees in historic Schmidtville - ‘top secret’. HRM has suggested the...
Lyndon Watkins – The Mayor Of Schmidtville – Provides A Youtube Tour Of Halifax’s First Subdivision – Established In 1750s
By Andrew Macdonald Lyndon Watkins - The Mayor Of Schmidtville - On A Tour Of Significance Of Halifax’s First Subdivision Lyndon Watkins is the Official Mayor of Schmidtville - in the 1970s he began to buy properties in what is Halifax’s first subdivision, established...
The Notebook Soundtrack: A Youthful Ryan’s Fancy – Denis Ryan, Dermot O’Reilly & Fergus O’Byrne -Ham It Up In Margaree In 1977
By Andrew Macdonald The Notebook Soundtrack: Ryan’s Fancy Show: A Rather Young Denis Ryan sings Vale of Margaree I was surfing on Youtube, and came across a 1977 Ryan’s Fancy TV show, as Denis Ryan takes his then TV show to the beauty of Cape Breton, and especially...
Republican Fox TV’s Tucker Carlson Mispronounced ‘Ottawa’ – He Ought To Know Better Because He Once Owned Island Off Chester NS
By Andrew Macdonald
Republican Fox TV’s Tucker Carlson Once Owned a Chester Island – But He Mispronounced Ottawa – He Should Know Better
Right-wing TV pundit, Tucker Carlson the other day botched up the pronunciation of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa.
As the CBC was quick to report he stressed “the second syllable of the city’s name instead of the first — essentially pronouncing it “aw-TUH-wah” instead of “AW-tuh wah”, the public broadcaster reported.
His mispronunciation was a right-winger’s slight of Democrat nominee Joe Bidden’s VP running mate.
Chase Tang, The Bedford Raised Rising Hollywood Star, To Represent Women’s Apparel Brand
Chase Tang, The Bedford Raised Rising Netflix Star, To Represent Women’s Apparel Brand By Andrew Macdonald Bedford raised rising Hollywood star, Chase Tang has signed aboard to represent a new brand company - he is being paid to represent. A women’s apparel company,...
Alison Strachan: Home Renovations In Historic Lunenburg
By Alison Strachan LUNENBURG: It's been a while since I've written anything for The Notebook and there's been a fairly decent selfish reason for that. The back of my home in Lunenburg has been a construction site since July. Former Lunenburg Heritage Planner, Bill...
Meet Mark Boudreau’s Mother: A Personal Story Of The Ultimate Survival – Thanks To A Woman’s Shelter
Editor’s Note: Here is a happy story of the ultimate survival and salvation - from a battered mother, who through the help of a woman's shelter now enjoys peace and safety - and a real quality of life. As we gather around family and close buddies this Thanksgiving...
A Maritime Photo Moment: Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!
By Andrew Macdonald The growing readership of The Notebook mostly has many reasons to reflect on life this Holiday weekend, and be content. For this occasional column, Maritime Photo Moment, we capture the fabulous storefront holiday display at the Chester Foodland...
The Notebook Soundtrack: A Classic Mourning Tune: Seasons In The Sun
By Andrew Macdonald The Notebook Soundtrack: A Mourning Tune To Remember Deceased Pals When I turned Fifty is Nifty in 2018 - two of my closest friends died that week: One was 68, dying from the bottle, sadly - the other pal was a family man with four young kids, he...
