Tony Colaiacovo has been a publisher, consultant and writer for more than 46 years. A life-long resident of Halifax, Tony graduated from Dalhousie University in 1978. He was a co-founder of Halifax Magazine (1979) and of the Burnside News (1984). For many years, he specialized as a contract publisher in the cultural industries. He introduced the notion of program advertising for clients that included Neptune Theatre, Symphony Nova Scotia, The Atlantic Film Festival and the Quebec Nordiques.
 
In 1998, Tony started to write and produce a series of history journals, collectively known as The Times Series. The Times Series is the best-selling history journal in Nova Scotia. Titles in the series include the Times of Pier 21, the Lunenburg Times, the Navy Times, the Times of Tall Ships, the Times of Halifax and the Titanic Times. The Titanic Times and the Times of Halifax have been in continuous print since 1998.
 
Tony’s first feature book, The Times of African Nova Scotians, was published in 2006. It was written specifically to address the shortage of teaching materials pertaining to African Nova Scotian history. It was embraced as a teaching aid by educators at all grade levels. The feature story in The Times about Viola Desmond gained widespread notoriety and eventually led to Viola’s Free Pardon.   
 
Tony’s follow-up book, The Times of African Nova Scotians, Volume II, was shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award (non-fiction) in 2016.
 
Before his retirement in 2022, Tony Colaiacovo served as publisher for the Delmore ‘Buddy’ Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI).