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MacPolitics: Politicians like Tim Houston Beating Up Nova Scotia Power Good For Votes – Not Good for Private Sector Corporations Which Call NS Home Base
MacPolitics: Zach Churchill’s Liberals Would Create Women’s Health Ministry; Spend $15M A Year Building/Expanding 40 Collaborative Care Clinics
MacPolitics: Claudia Chender’s NDP Aims Guns At Housing Minister John Lohr: ‘Lohr’s Priority in the Housing Crisis? Protecting His Friends and Family’s AirBnB’s!’
MacPolitics: Eastern Passage NDP Candidate, Tammy Jakeman Parts Way With Chender Party After Atlantic Jewish Council Called Anti-Semitic Social Media Posts ‘ Deeply Troubling
MacPolitics: Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish’s Fiona MacLeod Was Schooled In Mulroney Era Politics – Worked For Legends Like Stewart McInnes & Pat Nolan
The Meaning Of Donald Trump’s Return To The White House: Very Concerning For Canada: Greg MacEachern
Chester Notes: What Would Butch Heisler Say About Donald Trump’s Triumphant Return To The White House?
Saturday Edition, Below
Thirty-Five Years & Counting In Nova Scotia’s News Trenches, The Last 10 Years As A Weekend Journalism Read
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Don Mills: ‘A Business Point Of View’ – Cannabis Has Become Big Business in New Brunswick
MacPolitics: Fillmore Takes the Reins at City Hall
MacPolitics: Sen. Jane Cordy’s Retirement A Big Loss of Institutional Memory In Upper Chamber: Greg MacEachern
MacPolitics: Conservative Rob Batherson Wins Nod In Halifax West
MacPolitics: Rob Batherson In His Own Words
PC Spending ‘Reckless, In Many Cases Useless’: NDP Leader Chender
MacPolitics: Lots Of Similarities Between Tim Houston & John Buchanan
MacPolitics: Antigonish Candidates Debate At Mulroney Hall – Early Election Call Draws Comments From PC, Liberal & NDP Candidates
MacPolitics: Election Sayings: The Origin Of ‘Vote Early, Vote Often’
Remembrance Day: Why Your Realtor Won’t Call You Back On Monday
Remembrance Day & Voting — Why The Optics Are Off To Allow Voting On Remembrance Day
That’s The End Of The Saturday Edition Of The Macdonald Notebook
MacPolitics: Poll In First Week of NS Election Shows Majority Terrain For Tim Houston Conservatives
Kelly Bennett To Head Up National Polling Firm’s Expansion In Halifax – Abacus Data Establishes Atlantic Beachhead
Travelling Nurse Program Among Houston’s Healthcare Proposals, Bridge Tolls to Help with “Whack-a-Mole” Traffic Woes
NDP Would Ban Fixed-Term Leases, Implement Coastal Protection Act: Chender
MacPolitics: Liberal Zach Churchill Has A Plan To Save NS Families $3,000 A year; Create 40 Medical Clinics
MacPolitics/MacHistory: A Look At Elections Past In Nova Scotia
MacPolitics: ‘Old Tory’ Roger Porter Does Not Support Houston Regime – States Case On Election Sign
Colin Patrick MacDonald Writes From Calgary – Memories As A Cape Breton Post Paperboy In Antigonish
MacPolitics: An American In Halifax Can Only ‘Hope’ For Kamala Harris Victory: Tuesday Is U.S. Election Night
MacPolitics: Retired ST FX Prof Gary Brooks Election Night Treats For U.S. Presidential Campaign
Jim David: My Take On…Fall Dining Near Peggy’s Cove
It’s That Time Of Season: Old Farmer’s Almanac Predictions For Atlantic Canada 2025
The Notebook Soundtrack: Celtic Thunder – Here In Halifax, November
Alex Whalen: All Parties Should Commit To Growing Nova Scotia’s Economy
MacPolitics: Tim Houston’s First Job As A Paperboy, Also Flipped McDonald Hamburgers On Lacewood
MacPolitics: NDP Stalwart Dan O’Connor Has Experience With Snap Elections
MacPolitics: Don Cameron: On Why He Removed Tolls On Canso Causeway In 1991
Exclusive: MacPolitics: Why Jordi Morgan Can’t Run For Poilievre Conservatives In Halifax West, After All
Gardening: Planting Fall Garlic, Growing A Gigantic Castor Bean Plant
Nearly 40 Years Ago, Brian Peckford Tried To Pioneer Hydroponic Gardening; AeroGarden Used The Technology But Now Closing
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