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...
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We Get Mail: Gord Gamble ‘Appalled’ By Plans To Drop Sir John A. Macdonald’s Name On School
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MacPolitics: Dan O’Connor On Alexa McDonough’s Election 40 Years Ago As The First Woman To Lead A Political Party In Canada
News Item: On Nov. 16, 1980, Alexa McDonough became the first woman in Canada to lead a political party after winning the Nova Scotia NDP convention. This week, she marked her 40th anniversary with a small gathering, the crowd reduced because of the pandemic. Dan...
Opinion: Peter McCreath On The Side Of Sir John A Macdonald
Opinion News Item: Upper Tantallon's Sir John A. Macdonald High School to change the name because former prime minister sent Indigenous folk to residential schools. By Peter McCreath So are we all supposed to accept that it is more important that we live in a world...
We Get Mail: Peter McCreath Writes: ‘Fine & Dandy To Rebuild HFX Downtown…But Historic HFX Being Lost To Condos & Rentals That I Can’t Afford To Live In’
We Get Mail: Peter McCreath Writes: ‘Fine & Dandy To Rebuild HFX Downtown - But Historic Halifax Being Lost To Apartment & Condos That I Can’t Afford To Live In’ Peter McCreath, a former NS Southshore Mulroney and Campbell MP and cabinet minister, teacher,...
We Get Mail: Larry Haiven’s Great Idea To Save Schmidtville Trees From HFX City Hall Proposed Massacre…
Larry Haiven’s Great Idea To Save Schmidtville Trees... OK, it’s a bit tongue in cheek, but what the heck...Schmidtville resident, Larry Haiven writes into The Notebook: “On (Saturday’s) 77th birthday of Joni Mitchell...We could turn the Memorial Library into a tree...
Opinion: What Is Wrong With This Tale: In Rural Nova Scotia You Can Buy Beer For Breakfast
Opinion By Andrew Macdonald Johnny Cash, the greatest musical poet of all times, sung a tune, 'Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down' that became a top hit on Billboard US Country charts. It’s been covered by many other artists. The song was written by musical giant Kris...
We Get Mail: Brookes Diamond Writes On Schmidtville Trees…’Gotta Find A Way To Save Those Trees!!’
We Get Mail: Brookes Diamond Writes On Schmidtville Trees Further to our comprehensive coverage on a Halifax City Hall plan to install a bike lane on Morris Street, in the heart of the Schmidtville District, off of Spring Garden Road - where HRM states an option is to...
We Get More Mail: Antigonish Reader: ‘Happy To See Corey LeBlanc Join Your News Team’
On Saturday, The Notebook received a letter from a member of Antigonish's Clan Chisholm, on our summertime engagement to contract out former 18-year long dedicated and faithful The Casket journalist, Corey LeBlanc - he is on a Notebook freelance gig - covering...
We Get Mail: Veteran Ace Commercial Agent Dan Sangster Writes: ‘Louis Reznick A Man Of Integrity’
Following a portion of our Saturday coverage on developer and major Halifax Downtown residential, retail, and office landlord, Louis Reznick, The Notebook heard from commercial real estate veteran agent, Dan Sangster - Reznick told me Dan put many of the property...
We Get Mail: As Schmidtville Cries Over HRM Proposed Tree Massacre…
Here is The Notebook Mailbag, on our continuing coverage of the Halifax City Hall idea to take a chainsaw to 30 of 48 majestic trees in Schmidtville, what we are calling in our comprehensive news coverage the 'Proposed Schmidtville Tree Massacre'. Retired St. Francis...
