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Exclusive: Almon Street Bike Lane’s Extra Construction Cost Disclosed After Contractor Digs Up Old Tram Tracks & Infrastructure
HRM Votes: Andy Fillmore’s Response To CNIB Call For Moratorium On Bike Lanes
HRM Votes: Mayoral Candidate Pam Lovelace’s Position on CNIB Call for Moratorium On New Bike Lanes
Q&A With Waye Mason: We Asked The HFX Mayoral Contender If He Supports CNIB Call For Moratorium On Bike Lane Construction
HFX Votes: Mayoral Candidates Spar Over Intergovernmental Relations, Immigration At Pier 21
MacPolitics: Lots Of Antigonish County Candidates Vying For Seats On Council
MacPolitics: Mark Boudreau Schooled In Mulroney Era Politics, Will Represent Conservatives In Halifax
MacPolitics: Mark Boudreau, Part II: Can An Ex-Grocer Executive Get Elected In Today’s Society With Voters Having Dim Views Of Grocery Giants?; Well, If You Were Raised On Food Bank Reliance, Voters Might Relate To That Candidate
Wednesday & Last Weekend Editions, Below
Note To My Readers: Now Publishing Thrice-Weekly: Macdonald Notebook Editions, Saturday, Sunday & Now Also Publishing On Wednesdays
Exclusive: HRM Votes: Why Andy Fillmore Is In His Element – NATO Officially Opens Halifax Office – More Than Anyone, Fillmore Delivered The NATO HQ
Exclusive: HRM Votes: Mayoral Contender Pam Lovelace Says ‘Inexcusable HRM Engineers Were Not Aware Of Buried Tramway Prior To Bike Lane Construction In Northend Halifax; Halifax City Hall Faces Untold Additional Project Costs After Tramway Dug Up
Exclusive: HRM PR Silent On Tough Questions About Almon Street Bike Lane – Major Headache for City Hall After Contractor Digs Up Old Tramway Tracks
HRM Votes: Poll Shows Tight Race For Second Spot In Mayoral Race – Pam Lovelace Happy With Her campaign To Date
Exclusive: Part II: We Asked Fillmore, Lovelace & Mason Where They Stand On CNIB’s Call For Bike Lane Moratorium
Last Weekend Editions, Below
MacPolitics: Mark This Date Down For NS Election!!
VIA Rail Will ‘Collaborate’ With CN To Address Track Problems: CEO
The Issue: NS Premier Tim Houston Offered NS Grape & NS Wine Makers a Larger Subsidy; NS Producers Reject Deal Because Houston Donor Was Offered Up $1M to import grape juice for wine making
Tory Tim Houston’s Wine Policy ‘flies in the face of the vision Of NS Wineries and NS Grape Growers and threatens such a vibrant and impactful part of Nova Scotia’s rural identity’ – Ashley McConnell-Gordon, Benjamin Bridge
The Folly Of Using Taxpayer Dollars To Subsidize Commercial Bottlers’ Purchases Of Import Grape Juice
Karl Coutinho’s Wine Policy Letter To Premier Tim Houston – Board Chair – Wine Growers Nova Scotia
Wine Documents
HRM Votes: A Mom Seeks Councillor Seat; Her Son Runs For Mayor – Political Service All In The Family
HRM Votes: Nolan Greenough At 23 Years-Old Youngest Contender for Mayor – Here is why he is running
HRM Votes: Mayoral Contender Nolan Greenough’s Official Bio
HRM Votes: Mayoral Contender Greg Frampton Almost Changed Course Of NS Political History
HRM Votes: Mayoral Contender: ‘Rip Up Bike Lanes’
The Notebook Soundtrack: Celtic Thunder – Here In Halifax, November
Saturday Edition, Below
Exclusive: Organization For Visually Impaired Calls For Immediate Moratorium On HRM Bike Lane Construction
Buried Tram Tracks Present Major Headache Creating Almon Street Bike Lane
Cindy Day: Hurricane Helene Missed Us Here, But Expect Hurricanes In October
HRM Votes: Mayoral Candidates Spar Over Taxes, Housing
HRM Votes: Is There A Path For Conservative Partisan In Halifax Mayoral Race? Darryl Johnson Could Take Tory Votes
Tomorrow’s ‘Sunday Notebook’: Meet HRM Mayoral Contender Nolan Greenough
MacPolitics: Son Of Digby Neck & Islands Tapped As Hired Gun For N.B.’s Blaine Higgs
MacPolitics: The Golden Millennial Campaign Managers In Nova Scotia’s 2018 PC Race; Where Are They Now?
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