Opinion

Cameron MacKeen, a Halifax Tory operative, writes about Don Mills letter to The Macdonald Notebook last week, in which Mills defends his polling company from criticism by Tory leader Jamie Baillie. Baillie said Mills got the Tory support wrong in the recent election – and also in 2013’s election. Here is Cameron’s letter to the editor:

Fall Back Up with Jordi Morgan and a chat with award-winning Halifax Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon.

In this Spoken Word segment, the speech Scott Brison, Trudeau’s Nova Scotia man in cabinet, delivered on the installation of Art LeBlanc, as the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia:

It is not uncommon for our company to be criticized by a political party following an election.

It is natural for party leaders to be disappointed after an election. Our industry is held to an extremely high standard in the conduct of our work, higher than most other professions. Certainly our industry has come under some well-deserved criticism over the past few years for not getting it right.

What if the election was declared Unconstitutional?

This was a question some of us were mulling over on Nova Scotia’s election night.

On this episode, Rear Admiral John Newton, the commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic and Joint Task Force Atlantic.

Admiral Newton began his career in the Canadian Navy in 1983 after trying his hand as a geologist out west.

Today on Fall Back Up, I’m delighted to welcome the Nova Scotia artists, Allan Bateman and Holly Carr.

For people of my vintage, Steve Martin turned comedy on its ear. I was reminded this week of one of Martin’s best film moments from The Jerk when the new phone book arrives.

Earlier this week the new Halifax Index was released from the Halifax Partnership. Yay. For most, it might seem a little dry, but for people in the public policy world, it’s darn near exciting. Even for those not wonky enough to be enraptured with economic and demographic data, it tells a compelling story.

Occasional Macdonald Notebook recipe writer, Gary Phillipe, of Southend Halifax writes about last weekend’s Halifax Gourmet Pizza Wars:

I enjoyed the pizza restaurant article.

Atlantic Canadian small businesses should brace themselves for the $15 minimum wage. Alberta and Ontario have both bought into the idea, and now British Columbia’s new Green NDP coalition has it on the table. Canada’s largest labour unions are funding the ‘Fight for 15’ campaign, bolstered by the federal and provincial NDP and social justice activists. The arguments being made are as deceptive as they are compelling.