Politics

Gary Burrill, the Nova Scotia NDP chieftain, is pleased that minimum wages are going up in Ontario and Alberta.

In Prince Edward Island, the lone Green Party MLA and leader Peter Bevan Baker has this year occasionally outpolled third term Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan.

As The Macdonald Notebook enters six months of publishing – four months with a paywall, the new weekend Notebook is expanding its business, political and cultural affairs news coverage to Prince Edward Island.

(This story originally ran in The Macdonald Notebook on May 12, 2017. It is repeated for the benefit of new subscribers).

The Confederation Bridge linking New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island turned 20-years-old on May 31, 2017.

Details of Scott Brison’s recent surprise 50th birthday bash are now reaching The Macdonald Notebook.

John Archie MacKenzie, 82, died this summer in Cape Breton.

During the first year of production of The Macdonald Notebook, I made a commitment to you, dear reader, that I would not take a vacation.

Back in the 1970s, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was fond of sailing excursions and vacations around the waters of Mahone Bay.

Scott Brison’s annual picnic at his Cheverie retreat attracted upwards of 700 folk last weekend.

Tim Houston and his team have been canvassing for potential support for a leadership run should provincial Tory leader Jamie Baillie call it quits in the fall.