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MacPolitics: As Voting Day Nears, Much Depends on Dollars and Cents
MacPolitics: Poll: PCs lead, NDP in Second Spot
MacPolitics: Surging in the polls, Claudia Chender-Led NDP Launch Last Minute Campaign: ‘Don’t Let Tim Win’
It’s time to scrap political tax credits
MacPolitics: The Lessons Nova Scotia Politicos Can Learn From John Buchanan’s Political ‘Midas Touch’
MacPolitics/MacHistory: Paging Politicos: Brian & Mila Mulroney’s Vintage Cards Of Christmases Past
MacPolitics: Election Sayings: ‘If It Moves, Give It Welfare; If It Does Not Move, Pave It’
MacPolitics: Retired STFX prof Dr. Gary Brooks Election Night Nibbles for NS provincial Election
A Life Well Lived: Remembering Tom Forrestall
Alison Strachan: LaHave Bakery Celebrates 39 Years In Business
Jim David: A Second Visit To Hali Deli
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MacPolitics: A Tory is A Tory Is A Tory – NS PC Leader Tim Houston Has Distanced Himself from Conservative Party of Canada
MacPolitics: Tim Houston’s Platform Does Not Call For Universal MSI Coverage Of Anti-HIV Drug – That’s a Shame
MacPolitics: Liberal Party Commits to More Highway Twinning
Collaborative Community Health Care: More Than 50 Years Of Doing It In Halifax’s North End
Jim David: My Take: ‘Hali Deli’, Halifax’s Old World Delicatessen
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MacPolitics: Party Leaders’ Debate Shows Philosophical Differences On Housing, Healthcare
MacPolitics: Liberals Charge Susan Corkum-Greek Campaign With Vote Buying
MacPolitics: Peter Zwicker In His Own Words As Liberals Accuse Lunenburg Tory Candidate Of Vote Buying
MacPolitics: ‘Can I Have Your Vote For A Pint Of Dark Rum, A Load Of Gravel?’
MQO Poll: Majority Favours Tim Houston, PCs Lead Everywhere
MacPolitics: Poll Shows Nova Scotia PCs Extend Lead At Halfway Mark Of Campaign
Chender Reaffirms Support for Small, Local Businesses; Promises To Reduce Business Taxes
MacPolitics: Houston Tories Claim NDP’s Lisa Lachance ‘Double-Dipping’ By Collecting $1.1M From Ottawa
MacPolitics: NDP Points Out Tory Candidate’s Company Received Millions To Build Housing For Seniors
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Transportation
Dennis Campbell In His Own Words, Part II
Apr 4, 2020 | Transportation
Halifax Port: Vehicle Carrier With Coronavirus Aboard Barred Entry For Now
Apr 3, 2020 | Transportation
Port Of Halifax Names New Harbour Master
Mar 31, 2020 | Transportation
HWY 103: Paving Tender To Be Issued Soon Between Tantallon & Imgramport – Lucrative Contract Will See Sharpest Bidders From Carl Potter & Donald Chisholm Vy For An Award
Mar 28, 2020 | Transportation
NS Road Building: Why The Notebook Is Declaring Lloyd Hines As History-Making Highways Minister
Mar 28, 2020 | Transportation
NS Road Building: Highways Minister Lloyd Hines To Call Tenders – Just In Time For Needed Rural NS Economic Stimulus Package
Mar 28, 2020 | Transportation
Coronavirus: Gregg Keating’s Altimax Courier Sees Uptick In Some Deliveries, Slowdown in Other Business Aspects
Mar 23, 2020 | Business, Transportation
Halifax Port: History Making Weekend As Port Hosts Largest Ever Container Ship Since The First Container Ships Here In 1969
Mar 22, 2020 | Transportation
Halifax Port: CEO Captain Gray’s 100-Day Meet & Greet Has Him Sitting Down With Waterfront Union President Kevin Piper
Mar 6, 2020 | Transportation
By Andrew Macdonald
Now three months into his posting as Port of Halifax chief executive officer, Captain Allan Gray is continuing with a 100-day ‘meet & greet’ of the port community.
And the other week, he sat down one-on-one with the president of the union representing waterfront workers who load and unload the container boxes from container vessels calling Halifax. The workers are a key component of the local port operations.
The meeting between the captain, who has two decades of actual shipping experience in his native Australia, and Kevin Piper, the president of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 269, was, by their accounts, positive and productive.
I caught up to Piper after he had the meeting with the new CEO in his corner office at the Halifax Port Authority offices, and Piper tells The Notebook he is pleased that Gray has oodles of shipping experience.
Halifax Port: Captain Allan Gray Bullish On Arrival Of Halifax Port’s Biggest Yet Container Vessels
Mar 4, 2020 | Transportation
By Andrew Macdonald
The largest container vessel to ever visit the Port of Halifax is set to arrive at the PSA Halifax Southend Container Terminal the end of this month.
It is the CMA CGM Jefferson, a container vessel built-in 2017.
It has the capacity to carry a commanding 14,414 TEUs (twenty-foot container boxes and her current draught is reported to be 15 metres.
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