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Exclusive: Why Hapag Lloyd’s Halifax Bound Container Cargo Could Become Fewer – It Is Concerning Carrier Beefing Up Calls to Port Saint John Over The Years
Jim David: My Take On Salty’s On The Waterfront – One Last Visit To Soon To Close Eatery Mainstay
MacPolitics: Nothing Free About Freedom of Info Request – Biting The Bullet & Paying Houston Gov For Houston Gov Wine Policy Documents
Lunenburg’s Blockhouse Hill Park Could Be Protected By Incoming Town Council – ‘Hopes’ Developer Thom Barclay
Lunenburg Politics: Good Riddance To Outgoing Town Councillors – Clean Slate Of Councillors Heading To Town Hall After Election In October
MacPolitics: Majority Of Canadians Would Favour Kamala Harris As Next U.S. President – Poll
MacPolitics: HRM Mayoral Race: Pam Lovelace Asks For Votes ‘To Bring Back The Passenger Trains’
MacPolitics: HRM Mayoral Contender Pam Lovelace On Her Mayoral Debate Strategy
MacPolitics: Housing the Biggest Issue In Mayoral Campaign: Andy Fillmore
MacPolitics: The Three Top Issues In HRM, According to Mayoral Contender Waye Mason
MacPolitics: Former Broadcaster Riley Murphy’s Mayoral Campaign Identifies Top Issues Facing HRM Voters
MacPolitics: Tory Turned Liberal Supporter, Rob Smith Says Dumping Trudeau As Leader Not A Good Idea – Cites Modern Political History When A Leader Is Changed Out, The Results Are Disastrous
MacPolitics: Parliament Returns Monday, Crucial By-Elections Slated
MacPolitics: Poll: Majority of Canadians Do Not Want An Early Election
Saturday Edition, Below
How The Joe Ramia Family Helped Raise $906,687 In One Day For QE2 Hospital Foundation
A Life Well Lived: ‘Tartan Hour’ Radio Host Paul Meagher Dead, Started His Broadcasting Career In 1977; Helped Found Seaside FM In 1999
Saint John & Bathurst Airport CEOs Say Pascan Aviation’s Halifax Route Transformative
MacPolitics: Iain Rankin Had A Plan To Twin To The Canso Causeway; Sadly Tim Houston Is Not Going That Far
Tim Houston Gov Actually Begins New Twinning on 103 HWY; A Bid That Carl Potter Did Not Want To Lose
MacPolitics: On Anniversary Of Lloyd Hines’ Demise — A Look Back At His Greatest Legacies
MacPolitics: Alison Strachan On Her Campaign To Win Lunenburg Town Council Seat
MacPolitics: Clan Chisholm Inc. Has Another Shot At Occupying Antigonish Town Hall
Behind The Political Force That Was Collie Herman Chisholm, There Was A Force of Her Own: Remembering Eleanor Chisholm, Who When She Died In 2018 Was My Oldest Reader At The Time – Meet Coline Morrow’s Mom
Exclusive: MacPolitics: Seaside FM Personality’s Halifax Mayoral Ambitions – Is Riley Murphy A Dark Horse Contender?
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Arts & Culture
Did A UFO Really Crash In Shag Harbour 50-Years-Ago?
Sep 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Maritime Recipe: Ditch The Fish Chowder, Try Cioppino
Sep 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Ross Cantwell, Halifax Biz Mogul, Invented A Tuna Museum
Sep 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Excerpt: How To Shuck An Oyster
Sep 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Double Recipe: Mrs. Colin R’s 1940s Vintage Chow-Chow
Sep 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Haligonian Denis Ryan Created A Wakes & Wedding Tune
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
The man that largely introduced a haunting Scottish melody to enthusiastic Nova Scotia pub goers in the 1970s says Dark Island, is now the official anthem for wakes and weddings in Nova Scotia, especially in Cape Breton.
Cottage Life: The Joys Of Feeding The Amazing Hummingbirds
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
At the Maritime rural cottages, like mine in Jimtown Beach, one gets to delight in the life of the tiny but super amazing hummingbird.
Chester Chatter: Leading Undertaker Sees Third Generation Take In Race Week
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Donald Walker last week sailed his sloop Dark Water, a classic C&C 33 built in Oakville, Ont., in North America’s largest keel boat race in Chester.
Brig-General Saved Parrsboro House – Part II
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Following last weekend’s The Macdonald Notebook on how retired Brig-Gen. Colin Curleigh rescued a 21-room cottage on the Fundy Shore once occupied by Father of Confederation Sir Charles Tupper, I heard from Harriett McCready.
Native Indians Rescued Fortress Louisbourg Altar
Aug 25, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Little Acadian villages scattered along the west coast of Cape Breton feel winter’s roar like few others. Vicious winds called Les Suêtes scream through the highlands behind >Cap LeMoine, prompting visions of witches howling near the corners of the house, wailing and moaning and screeching through the night.
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