By Andrew Macdonald Exclusive: Maritime Loblaw Customers Raise Circa $300,000 For IWK Via A $2 Donation At Cash Registers In Just A Two Week Period So how much money does a giant retailer make when it asks each of its customers to donate $2 to a worthy cause? Well, in...
By Andrew Macdonald QE II Health Sciences Foundation Issues Security Breach To Its 70,000 Home Lottery Players It’s not the type of publicity the QE II Foundation is known for - but on Friday the purveyor of the ever-popular home and cottage lottery draws had to issue...
QE II Health Sciences Foundation - Part II By Andrew Macdonald The new boss of the QE II Health Sciences Foundation, CEO Susan Mullin took over the job in March 2020 - she replaced the now-retired Bill Bean, who logged 24-years at the hospital foundation. Mullin...
By Tom Peters Fox Harb’r Resort, near the Nova Scotia village of Wallace, turned 20 this year. I recall first stepping onto the property during construction. I had to announce myself through an intercom at the entry gate before I could proceed down Amazing Grace...
By Andrew Macdonald This edition of The Macdonald Notebook has been made free of the subscription paywall, so have a glance at our Old Fashioned Journalism. We specialize in Old Fashioned News Scoops. With writers in Halifax — and we are the only Halifax media outlet...
By Andrew Macdonald Metro Halifax Lawyer Sees Uptick In Writing Last Will & Testaments During Pandemic During the intense period of the pandemic, with its lockdown for the first three months, metro Halifax lawyer, Derek Brett reports his Burnside Law Group offices...
By Andrew Macdonald Say It Ain’t So: Halifax Herald To Abandon The Casket Weekly Brand The Antigonish newsweekly The Casket brand will be no more. The Sarah Dennis- owned Herald is going to introduce a brand new news title to the Strait of Canso region, various well...
Men’s fashion purveyor Bobby McGuire always had it in him to be a mentor, and a career shift has led him to giving advice to keep Halifax’s men stylish and fresh.
He has an advice-and-style Instagram page – McGuire Style – with 5,000+ followers, and he’s working toward a business of his own.
By Andrew Macdonald The other week I featured a story on Port Hawkesbury’s 97-year-old J. Franklin Wright who, while he might not enjoy a household name in Nova Scotia does have name recognition among most discerning art collectors around the globe. Wright has been...
By Andrew Macdonald As I chronicled in the above news article, Antigonish’s Down to Earth Art Gallery & Frame Shoppe has been the exclusive dealer for J. Franklin Wright since 1998. Given the historic artist-gallery agency relationship, when a fine Wright marine...
