By Andrew Macdonald Halifax Herald’s The Antigonish Casket Fate Still Up In The Air While Mark Lever’s Saltwire Network will resume print runs for five NS weeklies, the country’s oldest running weekly newspaper, The Antigonish Casket, does not have a definitive date...
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Saltwire Network’s Ian Scott: ‘The Plan Is To Return Antigonish Casket Weekly – But No Definitive Re-Start Date’
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Meet Joe Randell: Hobby At Age 12 Led To 30-Year Aviation Career – His Chorus Aviation Subject Of Take-Over Bid
By Andrew Macdonald Meet Chorus Aviation’s Joe Randell: HFX HQ’ed Airliner Subject Of Take-Over Bid On Friday, Halifax headquartered Chrous Aviation announced in a statement it is in receipt of a proposed take-over bid - an acquisition from a third-party. The Joe...
Mark Lever’s Saltwire Network To Re-Launch Five NS Weekly Papers – Hiring Journalists
By Andrew Macdonald SaltWire Network bringing back five Nova Scotia - Mark Lever Hiring Saltwire Network Journalists As Halifax Herald Re-Launches NS Weeklies There was some positive news this week on the weekly newspaper front in Nova Scotia - as the Halifax Herald...
Exclusive: Craft Beer Lovers Rejoice, Antigonish Couple Tapping Into A Brewing Livelihood
By Corey LeBlanc - The Notebook's roving Antigonish & Cape Breton Bureau Chief ANTIGONISH - There is a lot on tap when it comes to the ongoing development boom in downtown Antigonish and beer lovers will be pleased with what one couple has brewing. Louise Brennan...
HFX Grocer Wars: Aidan Coleman Sparks Food War With Pete’s, But Even He Faces Competition From More Future Grocers, Says Louis Reznick
By Andrew Macdonald An old-fashioned grocery war is developing in Downtown Halifax where Newfoundland millennial entrepreneur Aidan Coleman has opened an upscale grocery store on Hollis Street and is providing the first real competition Pete’s has seen in its 30-year...
Downtown Halifax’s Biggest Champion, Paul MacKinnon, On The Meaning Of Arthur’s Urban Market, A New Grocer In Heart Of City
By Andrew Macdonald Back in September, The Notebook reported an interesting development on the grocery store scene in Downtown Halifax. In two stories, I reported that a Newfoundland independent grocer chain, operated by the fourth-generation Coleman family, had...
What We’re Working On: Taking You, Dear Reader, On A Tour Of The Roy Condos & A Chat With The Captain Of The Port Of Halifax!!
By Andrew Macdonald Besides a focus of late on political endorsements for “Mayor for Life" Mike Savage last weekend, and a second endorsement that millennial-aged Max Taylor place in a strong position as a mayoralty campaign - and our recent comprehensive election...
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
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...
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...
MacPolitics: Denis Ryan For NS Liberal Premier? We Asked The Crooner Turned Multi-Billion Dollar Stock Promoter!
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Denis Ryan For Liberal NS Premier? Despite being told The Notebook would roll out a fulsome endorsement of his campaign to become the next NS premier, lamentably it is not in the cards for crooner turned a mega-billionaire stock...
