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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
Last Weekend Editions, Below
HRM Votes: Q & A With Aodhan P. Murphy, District 7
Exclusive: What’s Next For Mike Savage? – Well, We Hear He Will Have A New Job According To Chattering Classes – Savage’s Large Fan Base Will be Happy For Him
MacPolitics: Here Is What Mike Savage Said About Patronage Appointments in 2019
MacPolitics: Mike Savage Patronage Plum, Part III – Here’s Proof The Macdonald Notebook Gets It First & Gets It Accurate
HFX Votes: Transit, Public Safety Key Talking Points at SMU Debate as Election Day Nears
Did You Know Haligonian Denis Ryan Is A Folk Hero In His Hometown Of County Tipperary, Ireland, Too?
The Notebook Soundtrack: Denis Ryan Created Antigonish & Cape Breton Island Wakes & Wedding Song
MacPolitics: Thousands of Dollars Stolen From Premier Tim Houston’s PC Riding Association
HRM Votes: The Notebook Endorses Candidate Will Breckenridge For Halifax District 7
MacPolitics: Election Night Nibbles
Real Estate
Paderno Kitchen Stores in Halifax And Across The Nation Shuttering
Nov 15, 2019 | Politics, Real Estate
Disclosed: How Much Did PEI MP Sean Casey’s Family Get For 2017 Sale Of Famous Paderno Company To Canadian Tire Corp?
Nov 15, 2019 | Politics, Real Estate
Exclusive: Noted Fishmonger Monte Snow Gears Up For ‘Tasteful’ Residential Enclave Development On Bedford’s Toney Shore Drive
Nov 15, 2019 | Real Estate
Exclusive: Noted Fishmonger Monte Snow Gears Up For ‘Tasteful’ Residential Enclave Redevelopment On Bedford’s Toney Shore Drive
Nov 10, 2019 | Real Estate
Commercial Broker Bill MacAvoy Expects Joe Ramia To Fill Nova Centre Earlier Than Forecast
Nov 8, 2019 | Real Estate
Our Website Search Button Now Offers Over 2,500 Biz & Political Stories — Such As This 2018 Story On How Andrew Metlege Built An Apartment Empire
Nov 8, 2019 | Business, Real Estate
Emerging Retail Trends: A Behemoth Chinese Grocer Eyes Canada-Wide Retail Presence So Will Halifax Be On Its Radar?
Nov 1, 2019 | Real Estate
Stephen Adams Championed His Beloved Spryfield, Successfully Deflating Myths About The Community
Oct 19, 2019 | Politics, Real Estate
& Tim Moore To The Rescue Of More Displaced Trillium Condo Dwellers Over New Crane Evacuation Orders
Oct 12, 2019 | Real Estate
A Pizza War On NS South Shore Underway As Kiwi Cafe Expands Into Gourmet Pizza Offerings
Oct 12, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Real Estate
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