By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Chester’s Danielle Barkhouse Trounces Butch Heisler’s Old Boys Club - Takes Largest Plurality Of All Nova Scotia Municipal Votes Hard work and a lively feisty nature has rewarded Danielle Barkhouse with a second term on Chester...
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MacPolitics: Chester Politico Danielle Barkhouse Trounces Butch Heisler’s Old Boys Club – Takes Largest Vote Plurality In Nova Scotia Vote
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MacPolitics: NS PC Leader Tim Houston On Balanced Budgets And Deficits
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: NS PC Leader Tim Houston On Balanced Budgets and Deficits A definitive hallmark of the seven-year-long Liberal Stephen McNeil government has been balanced budgets. The other day, NS PC leader Tim Houston appeared on Seaside FM with...
MacPolitics: Will Sean Cameron Now Run For Houston Tories In Antigonish?
By Andrew Macdonald In the Town of Antigonish, Sean Cameron had the third-highest vote in Saturday’s election - he received 1012 ballots cast in his favour to again go back as a town councilor. Now there is a significant political school of thought suggesting Cameron...
A Perfect Outcome For Halifax City Hall – Mayor Savage Has Commanding Third Term Mandate – Millennial Max Taylor Nearly Gets More Votes Than Matt Whitman
By Andrew Macdonald A Perfect Outcome For Halifax City Hall - Mike Savage Steamrolls To Strong Third Term Mandate - Collects 80% Of Vote Mayor Mike Savage is going back in as Mayor of Halifax for a third term - winning his largest vote plurality since he first got...
Indigenous Fishery: Opinion: What’s Wrong With This Picture? First Nations Have As Much Right To Fish As The John Risleys Of The World
Opinion By Andrew Macdonald Opinion: What’s Wrong With This Picture? First Nations Have As Much Right To Fish, as The John Risley's Of The World I met Donald Marshall once in my lifetime - now deceased, successive Liberal and Tory governments in Ottawa have tragically...
MacPolitics: HFX-Chester’s Tristan Mills Is Powerbroker To Chester’s Danielle Barkhouse – He’s Also A Powerbroker To Tim Houston
By Andrew Macdonald MacPolitics: Tristan Mills Is A Power Broker To Chester’s Danielle Barkhouse - He’s Also A Tim Houston Power Broker Chester politico Danielle Barkhouse, now a two-term councilor relies on her political electioneering strategy from an up and coming...
MacPolitics: Mike Savage Demurs When I Refer To Him As ‘Mayor for Life’ – Also Proves Pollsters Can Be Right, Sometimes
By Andrew Macdonald Mayor Mike Savage proved the pollsters can sometimes get it right. Last December, Narrative Research found Mayor Savage with 65% popularity among the denizens in his City of Halifax. When the Saturday ballots were counted, Savage, a second...
MacPolitics: CBRM Mayoralty Challenger Amanda McDougall Defeats Cecil Clark By 4,000 Votes
Editor's Note: Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayoralty Challenger Amanda McDougall won that region's mayoralty race, defeating two term mayor Cecil Clark by a win of 4,000 votes. She spoke to Corey LeBlanc, The Notebook's Cape Breton Bureau Chief On Oct. 3rd,...
Indigenous Fishery: Even In Death, Donald Marshall Jr. Continues To Face Systematic Racism From The Whiteman
By Andrew Macdonald Even In Death: Whiteman Continues Systematic Racism Against Donald Marshall Jr. The name of Donald Marshall Jr is in the news cycle in this province, regarding an attempt of the Indigenous folk of Nova Scotia to establish a fishery for their First...
MacPolitics: Opinion – My Ideal Outcome Of The Battle Of Halifax – A Political Endorsement
By Andrew Macdonald In today's Halifax municipal election, The Notebook is rolling out an endorsement of Mayor Mike Savage. Savage could be 'Mayor for life', and he is leading the fair City of Halifax at a time when its economy has been firing on all cylinders —- the...
