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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?
Exclusive: HRM Votes: Mayoral Candidate Riley Murphy’s Wide Ranging Notebook Q & A
Poll: Andy Fillmore Has Wide Lead In Mayoral Race, Mason and Lovelace Battle Out For Second Spot
That’s The End Of The Saturday Edition…
Jim Spatz’s Sod-Turning At Seton Ridge – A Ten Year Development Will Create 6,000 Housing Units
MacPolitics: American Politics: Derek Brett This Week
“Towards Prosperity”: Forthcoming Don Mills & David Campbell Book Reflects Growing Optimism from its Authors
Atlantic companies more ambitious than ever, but weighed down by disproportionate public sector: Don Mills & David Campbell
Lunenburg Votes: Q & A With Mayoral Contender, Jamie Myra
Lunenburg Votes: Q & A With Mayoral Contender, Jesse Ward
Antigonish Votes: Candidates For Town Council Address Stink from Sewer Plant
On Amalgamation, Here Is Where Antigonish Town Candidates Stand
It’s That Time Of Season: 2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac’s Atlantic Canadian Weather Predictions
Part II: How Does Old Farmer’s Almanac Predict The Weather?
Part III: Farmer’s Almanac – Atlantic Canadians Love To Talk About The Weather
Part IV: Almanac – ‘Younger Generations Turning To Gardening’
Saturday Edition, Below
In Conversation With Mila Mulroney, New Chancellor At St. FX
Mila Mulroney Volunteers With Cystic Fibrosis – ‘Ian Thompson Approached Me To Help CF Fundraising’ – Remembering Robbie & Jane
Mila Mulroney Announced As St. Francis Xavier University’s 11th Chancellor: Official Campus Statement
In 2022, The Notebook Asked Brian Mulroney If His Daughter Caroline Mulroney Would Eventually Run To Become Prime Minister, Here is What He Told Me
Rick Emberley, Kevin MacIntyre Meet With Success At ‘Seasoned Pros’
Part II: Kevin MacIntyre’s Antigonish Pedigree
Exclusive: Narrative Research Hires Layton Dorey, Market Research Expert
Exclusive: Dartmouth General Hospital’s Radiothon Originated On Seaside FM, Now Joined By Hot Country 103.5 And Surge 105.1
Lunenburg’s Blockhouse Hill: Friends Of Blockhouse Election Manifesto
Opinion: Fred McMahon: Houston Government Follows ‘Drunken Sailor’ Fiscal Strategy
MacPolitics: Don Mills On American Politics — ‘The Closest Presidential Election Ever’
HRM Votes: Mayoral debate: Fillmore talks law-and-order, Mason centres council record, Lovelace advocates Passenger rail
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
Sep 29, 2024 | Business, Latest Issue, Politics
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