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MacPolitics: HRM Mayoral Contender Pam Lovelace On Her Mayoral Debate Strategy
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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
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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
Tarek Hadhad’s Syrian Story Of Sweet Candy Success
May 12, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Nova Scotia In Film With MJ Moye
May 12, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Nova Scotia in Film
a periodic examination of films with Nova Scotia connections
Halifax Contractor Picked For Mulroney School
May 12, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Construction of the Brian Mulroney policy school at Antigonish’s St. Francis Xavier University is going to be handled by the Toronto-based firm EllisDon, well placed sources tell TheMacdonaldNotebook.ca.
Sister Jovita MacPherson Honored By Theology School
May 12, 2017 | Arts & Culture
St. Martha’s Sister Jovita MacPherson has received the Mayann Francis Faith in Action Award for her work with the homeless in Halifax.
The award was presented last Friday at the Atlantic School of Theology gala at the Lord Nelson Hotel.
St. Martha’s Sister Jovita MacPherson was honoured at last week’s Atlantic School of Theology Gala for her work with homeless folk in Halifax
Chester Chatter: Trudeau Host Dimick Now Hosting Chaisson Tories
May 12, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Chester Back Harbour resident Jon Dimick is now hosting Tories at his splendid mansion.
This week, he opened his abode Over The Way, built in 1905 by his ancestor, an American industrialist back when toney Americans lived and played in seaside Chester, to Tory contender Julie Chaisson.
A Conversation With Former First Lady Maureen McTeer
May 12, 2017 | Arts & Culture
It’s a homecoming this weekend for Canada’s former first lady, Maureen McTeer as she visits Kings Hants.
EllisDon Tapped To Build Mulroney Hall
May 12, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Construction of the Brian Mulroney policy school at Antigonish’s St. Francis Xavier University is going to be handled by the Toronto-based firm EllisDon, well placed sources tell TheMacdonaldNotebook.ca.
Steve Smith On Life After Big Sale To The Irvings
May 5, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Antigonish business tycoon Steve Smith says he is happy with the way JD Irving Ltd. is running his former home building supply chain, Central Home Improvement.
The chain, with big box stores in Antigonish, Windsor, New Glasgow, Sydney, Guysborough and Inverness, was acquired by the Irvings in January.
Opinion: How Old Are Our Universities Anyway?
May 5, 2017 | Arts & Culture
Dalhousie University will be celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018. In doing so, according to the Dal News, it “will become one of only a handful of Canadian universities that [has] celebrated a bicentennial”.
Trout Fishing: Flies Or Worms?
May 5, 2017 | Arts & Culture
When Halifax commercial photographer Peter Leverman, 55, goes out trout fishing with his enthusiastic seven-year-old son in tow, he relies on flies, not worm bait, to catch trout.
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