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Opinion: Monte Solberg, a longtime Conservative MP who also served for the Reform Party, saw firsthand why Bernier’s plans for a new party are doomed

What could you have bought with that money in 1935? A lot, it turns out. Six decades later, you’d be down to a near-obsolete flip phone

Opinion: We don’t have enough physicians to operate our expensive healthcare system—and that’s exacerbated by the looming departure of 1,000 Saudi medical trainees

Terry Glavin: Bernier was going to have to be defenestrated sooner or later. He has now done Scheer the favour of jumping out the window, all by himself.

Stephen Maher: Bernier is unlikely to lead a party that seeks to govern, but many conservatives will find his ideas and his sales pitch refreshing

John Geddes: The Tory leader’s formative years, and the exiting MP’s rise to prominence, foreshadowed today’s acrimonious split

Jen Gerson: There are no special rights for people whose families have been here longer, or have white skin. Every citizen has a say when it comes to shared values—and a vote at election time

Scott Gilmore: The leader of Canada’s newest political party is well placed to at least outperform the Greens. And he might do even better than that.

Paul Wells: For years, Maxime Bernier cheerfully flew the Tory banner—even when his own ideas clashed with the party line. As he quit the party to start his own, it’s not clear he’s leading a serious movement.

Opinion: As Justin Trudeau continues to burnish his Superman brand, Andrew Scheer should be driving an election-day contrast with an Avengers-style approach