By Andrew Macdonald I spoke the other day with 30-year-old Josh Szulewicz and 28-year-old AJ Szulewicz about their acquisition of 1029 South Park Street, and found the millennial brothers work well together as a landlord team. Operating a company in which siblings are...
As I reported the other week, the Nova Scotia Auditor General Michael Pickup did an audit on the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation and his report contained a list of questions directed at the NSLC. I took those questions and asked the NSLC's chief spokesperson to answer...
By Andrew Macdonald For the past eight weeks, Nova Scotia NDP leader Gary Burrill has called for a public inquiry into the deaths from COVID-19 of 53 folk at Northwood Manor in Halifax. Victims have ranged in age from as young as 37, the son of noted Halifax musician...
By Andrew Macdonald There have been 53 deaths at Northwood Manor in Halifax, the largest seniors complex in Nova Scotia. Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey has initiated a review under the Quality-improvement Information Protection Act, and the two-member...
By Andrew Macdonald As part of my new photo feature column, today’s edition is a close-up photo of a lobster trap. I was particularly drawn to this lobster trap, the old-fashioned wooden variety, because most nowadays are made of wire, not rope and strings. The...
By Andrew Macdonald This is an archived story, being re-published because there are some neat apps out there that make summer life even more enjoyable. The other day, someone told me about a perfect weather-related app he uses for his South Shore boating...
By Andrew Macdonald Over the summer, The Notebook will feature a column on the great songs that celebrate summertime "when the living is easy," as Gershwin wrote. If you want to share a song, send me its name by hitting the Letter to Editor button below this article....
By Andrew Macdonald If you can believe it, a Notebook paid reader, my youngest subscriber, has graduated from grade 12 in the Class of 2020. This young reader joined as a subscriber in grade 10. And, Royden Trainor, a 1984 graduate from SAERC in Port Hawkesbury and...
By Andrew Macdonald When the calendar turns to July 1st, we all celebrate the founding of this greatest nation on earth, so The Notebook took a day off of news gathering. We will return with a full report on Saturday. The majority of us in Canada are here through...
