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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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Business
Faith Drinnan Sells Subscription Magazine Company
Jul 14, 2017 | Business
Oland Brewery On Impact Of Marijuana Sales
Jul 7, 2017 | Business
Oland Brewery, the leading beer manufacturer in Nova Scotia, is unsure what the impact on its beer sales will be once marijuana use is legalized in Canada.
Mahone Bay’s Haskapa Juice Expands To Burnside
Jul 7, 2017 | Business
The Nova Scotia company pushing haskap berries as the new super food is in the process of opening a facility in Burnside to produce a powdered concentrate.
Wolfville Shuttered NSLC To Re-Open In Early July
Jun 30, 2017 | Business
The Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. says it is too early to tell if there will be an impact on the sale of local Valley wines following the abrupt closure earlier this week of its Wolfville store after its ceiling fell to the floor.
Larry Wark On Why Michelin Won’t Ever Be Unionized
Jun 30, 2017 | Business
Back in the 1980s and ’90s, top union leader Larry Wark attempted multiple times to unionize the three Michelin plants in Nova Scotia.
How The Globe & Mail Retreated From Atlantic Canada
Jun 23, 2017 | Business
It’s been a year-and-half since Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe & Mail had an Atlantic bureau chief based in Halifax.
Rick Perkins Could Change Face Of Mergers & Acquisitions In Canada
Jun 23, 2017 | Business
Rick Perkins, fresh from his success in taking over the board of Alberta-based Liquor Stores, is poised to change the face of mergers and acquisitions in this country.
Larry Wark On 30-Year-Old Cod Fishery Collapse
Jun 16, 2017 | Business
The collapse of the Northern cod fishery occurred nearly 30 years ago, and saw giant processing companies like National Sea, predecessor in Lunenburg of High Liner Foods, begin shuttering seafood plants across the Atlantic Canada.
The Life & Times Of Peter Greer: Ultimate Union Leader
Jun 9, 2017 | Business
This spring, in between building a news website, and digging for story ideas for the new The Macdonald Notebook, I also took the time out to reflect on the incredible and remarkable life of a mentor and father figure to me, who in April shuffled off his mortal coil.
Halifax carpenter’s union boss Peter Greer, died at 64 – not old by today’s standards.
St. Ann’s Bay A Marine Protected Area
Jun 9, 2017 | Business
More than 100 people applauded the creation of Canada’s newest marine protected area Thursday night at a Dalhousie University panel discussion on the topic of safeguarding relatively small chunks of the world’s vast oceans.
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