Politics

We’re coming up to the one year anniversary of Joe Stewart’s death at age 80. He died Sept. 30, 2016, at his Terra Tory mansion in Antigonish County.

The political pundit talk against Tory leader Jamie Baillie is that he lacks charisma. I am not entirely sure that is true.

The Macdonald Notebook is a new online weekend news website, focussing on Business, Inside Politics and cultural affairs in Nova Scotia and in Prince Edward Island.

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Gary Burrill, the Nova Scotia NDP chieftain, is pleased that minimum wages are going up in Ontario and Alberta.

In Prince Edward Island, the lone Green Party MLA and leader Peter Bevan Baker has this year occasionally outpolled third term Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan.

As The Macdonald Notebook enters six months of publishing – four months with a paywall, the new weekend Notebook is expanding its business, political and cultural affairs news coverage to Prince Edward Island.

(This story originally ran in The Macdonald Notebook on May 12, 2017. It is repeated for the benefit of new subscribers).

The Confederation Bridge linking New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island turned 20-years-old on May 31, 2017.

Details of Scott Brison’s recent surprise 50th birthday bash are now reaching The Macdonald Notebook.

John Archie MacKenzie, 82, died this summer in Cape Breton.

During the first year of production of The Macdonald Notebook, I made a commitment to you, dear reader, that I would not take a vacation.