Guest Column: Opinion By Sean Sears It wasn’t like the crowd was shouting Henri, Henri, Henri, in the way Habs fans would yell Guy, Guy, Guy every time Lafleur was on the ice. Yet there was still a palatable still in the crowd and the introduction to the guest...
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Sean Sears: Opinion: ‘The Premier Is Gone, Long Live The Premier’
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Dr. Sarah Fraser: From Northwest Territories To Halifax – Getting The Covid-19 Pandemic Right
By Dr. Sarah Fraser Guest Column I recently returned from Northwest Territories where I’d been working as a physician for the last six months. Now, back in Nova Scotia, I’m reflecting on what it’s been like to have worked in areas of Canada with relatively few cases...
Jamie Baillie: Opinion: Building Back Better Means Affordable Housing For All Nova Scotians
Jamie Baillie: Opinion: Building Back Better Means Affordable Housing For All Nova Scotians Editor’s Note: As I outline in the above articles former Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie recently took to his Facebook page, to outline how he thinks...
MacPolitics: Spoken Word With MLA Allan MacMaster Who Suggests Vaccines Might Have To Be Taken Annually
Editor’s Note: I found a year-end message from Progressive Conservative MLA Allan MacMaster of Inverness interesting, especially his mention of the Covid-19 vaccines, which he warns we might have to take yearly, similar to the flu jab. He also talks about a decline in...
We Get Mail: Kevin McNamara On New Nursing Home Beds: ‘McNeil Gov Record Abysmal But They Did Build One Home & Announced Others’
Editor’s Note: Over the pandemic year, the opposition politico leaders in NS have publicly stated the seven-year long Liberal McNeil government did not build a single new nursing home complex. Former NS Deputy Minister of Health, Kevin McNamara, writes to set the...
We Get Mail: Fiona Diamond On Jordi Morgan’s CFIB File
Editor's Note: Over the weekend, The Notebook reported that even Jordi Morgan has become a job casualty of the pandemic after his Atlantic role as VP with Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) was eliminated as a cost-cutting move because of COVID....
We Get Mail: Valerie Bobyk Writes On Charley Pride
Editor's Note: On Wednesday, The Notebook heard from a reader who recalled his chance encounter with the great country music sensation Charley Pride aboard the ferry to Newfoundland, when Pride gave a live show in the ferry's lounge. That story, elsewhere on this...
We Get Mail: Syd Dumaresq On George MacDonald; Frank LeTourneau On AGNS View Planes; & Elizabeth Baillie On Timberlea Sobeys…..
We Get Mail: On our series of stories noting construction litigator George MacDonald’s 50th-anniversary call to the Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society, posted in the Notebook on Sunday, architect Syd Dumaresq writes: “Great series of articles on George MacDonald. The...
Alison Strachan: Charity Begins By Leaving Judgment Behind
By Alison Strachan We've entered the 'giving season', a season that literally gets kicked off in Nova Scotia, and Canada, on the first Tuesday in December each year. It's also a season that our accountants remind us about each April. Some of us choose to donate to...
We Get Mail: Gord Gamble ‘Appalled’ By Plans To Drop Sir John A. Macdonald’s Name On School
Businessman and Haligonian Gord Gamble writes in defense of Sir John A. Macdonald, regarding the proposed name change of Tantallon's Sir John A. Macdonald High School, after its principal suggested the founder of Canada should not be honoured, after his treatment of...
