GeneralVideo: Jack Layton through the yearsFootage of the NDP leader from his days as a Toronto city councillor to his final campaign as NDP leader
OttawaJack Layton: "We’re gonna build a new movement, right across this country"Paul Wells remembers the deceased NDP leader
NewsGood news, bad news: August 4-11, 2011Aid flows into Mogadishu after al-Shabaab retreats, while NATO forces see a deadly week in Afghanistan
OttawaShed a tearKatrina Onstad considers the politics of emoting. Michaelle Jean’s tearful statement after the earthquake Haiti was one of the...
GeneralMrs. Harper’s run-in with some hoary marmotsWild kingdom Laureen Harper has gone on an annual summer hike for a few years now. It started off as a solo venture, plus the...
Ottawa’The best politician of my generation’Former foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon commends Quebec Premier Jean Charest. It’s perhaps mildly curious that Mr. Cannon...
Ottawa’Something intellectuals fantasize about but rarely do’Jordan Michael Smith reviews the rise and fall of Michael Ignatieff. One quibble: I’m not sure how many would have described...
GeneralTrudeau muscle and why Elizabeth May is feeling guilty How tough is Justin Trudeau? When Montreal Liberal MP Justin Trudeau was in Toronto recently he attended a Scotiabank Caribbean...