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Dr. Ron Stewart Is The Father Of A Modern Ambulance Service In NS – Transformational Savage Health Minister Publishes Memoir With Jim Meek
Book Excerpt: Treat Them Where They Lie, By Dr. Ron Stewart & Jim Meek
At the Cunard Residences, Waterfront Development Comes Full Circle
HRM Votes: Andy Fillmore Easily Coasts To Mayoral Victory – Takes 42.4 % Of Votes; Waye Mason Way Behind In Second Spot; Lovelace Finishes Respectable Third
HRM Votes: Denis Ryan: ‘Thank Gosh, Our Man Won’
HRM Votes: Denis Ryan Suggests Job Number One For Mayor-Elect Fillmore – Cleaning Up Spring Garden Road
MacPolitics: Andy Fillmore ‘Not Running Away From Something, Running for Something’
HRM Votes: MacPolitics: Electioneering Redemption For Liberal Strategists Dale Palmeter & Joanne Macrae
HRM Votes: Andy Fillmore’s Mayoral Office Likely To See Joanne Macrae As Chief of Staff
HRM Votes: Top Tories Celebrate At Fillmore Victory Party – Former Liberal MP Assembled Broad Coalition of Liberal & Conservative Support
HRM Votes: Andy Fillmore Expected To Take Different Approach To Bike Lane Construction – During The Campaign Called HRM Roll Out Of Bike Lanes ‘Disjointed & Dangerous’
HRM Votes: Whatever Happened To Time Honoured Nova Scotia Tradition Of Conceding Election Defeat in Person?
HRM Votes: Where Will Mayoral Loser Waye Mason Go?
HRM Votes: Prominent NDPer Served As Waye Mason’s Campaign Manager
Lunenburg Votes: Alison Strachan – From A High-Power STEW Mac Legal Career, To Notebook Writer To Lunenburg Town Councillor – Mayor Myra Re-Elected
Antigonish Votes: Mayor-Elect Sean Cameron’s Top Priority: ‘Get To Work On Failing Sewer Plant’
Saturday Edition, Below
‘Rick Grant Reports’: Murray Ritch Caps Of Half-Century Legal Career; Colleagues and Friends Fete His ‘Vocation’
Exclusive: MacPolitics: Tim Houston & His Election Call — Mark This Date Down (And Remember Ontario’s David Peterson)
HRM Votes: Peter MacKay’s Blockbuster Mayoral Endorsement
HRM Votes: Will Darryl Johnson Be Andy Fillmore’s Spoiler, Allowing Waye Mason To Go Up The Middle And Become Mayor Mason?
Steve Murphy Talks About Dave Wright & Another World’s Hit Soap Opera – Featured Rachel & Mack Cory
Murphy’s Logic Book Excerpt: Dave Wright By Steve Murphy
Exclusive: Mike Savage Talks To The Notebook About His Lieutenant Governor Appointment
Once Upon A Time, No Buildings Got Built Over A 30 Year Period in Downtown Halifax – Andy Fillmore Fixed That
Exclusive: Part II: ‘Haligonians Deserve Property Tax Relief’ – HRM Mayoral Contender Pam Lovelace Takes Aim At Taxpayers Federation’s Devin Drover
Past Issues Below
Abacus Poll
Opinion: Devin Drover: Haligonians deserve property tax relief
HRM Votes: Candidate for Council Says Voters Should Fire All Incumbent Councillors: Mike McCluskey
HRM Votes: Q&A With Sam Austin, District 5, Downtown Dartmouth
HRM Votes: Q&A Evyeneia Dexter, District 8, Northend Halifax
HRM Votes: Jon Frost Q&A, District 8, Northend
HRM Votes: Q&A Anika Riopel, District 8, Halifax Northend
Past Issues
HRM Votes: MacPolitics: Political Dynasty Family: Gloria McCluskey Campaigns To Elect Her Son in Dartmouth – Mike McCluskey On The Ballot
Exclusive: MacPolitics: A Year Ago Mike Savage Lobbied For Wadih Fares To Become Lt-Gov, A Post Now Going To Savage
There Had Been – Had Been – A Compelling Case For Wadih Fares To Become NS Lieutenant Governor – Lebanese Folk Have Never Held The Plum Post
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Real Estate
‘Top To Bottom’ Dressing At LDM Shops; Expanding Into France
Dec 20, 2019 | Real Estate
What We’re Working On: A Chat With Two Female Electricians; EllisDon Work Crew Reflects Modern Day Trades; Men & Women Building Projects Together
Dec 20, 2019 | Real Estate
Development: How Bar Baron Gary Hurst Inspired ‘The Bloom’, North End’s Newest Rental Building
Dec 20, 2019 | Real Estate
News Scoop: Don Clow & Pete Clive Latest Multi-Residential Developers In Hot Halifax North End Real Estate Market
Dec 19, 2019 | Real Estate
News Scoop: Southport Condo Developer To Take Winning Track Record To Heart Of Halifax North End — Sources
Dec 19, 2019 | Real Estate
More On Glenn Squires: With Stu McInnes, Guy Lam & Brian Mulroney, Squires Played Significant Part In Building Up Bayers Lake Retail Park
Dec 19, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Real Estate
Theatre Lofts Condo Builder David Graham Eyeing Third Halifax North End Multi-Residential Project – Sources
Dec 19, 2019 | Real Estate
Halifax-Bridgewater Apartment Developer Adam Barrett Walks Away From Buying Chester’s Legendary Rope Loft – Sources
Dec 18, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Business, Real Estate
News Scoop: Planet Fitness, World’s Largest Gym Operator, Eyes Halifax Market, Tours City With Bob Mussett
Dec 17, 2019 | Real Estate
Sources: EllisDon & Trades Still Owed Millions On Completed Mulroney Hall Building; St. FX Says It Has ‘Compliance’ Issues
Dec 16, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Real Estate
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