Joe Clark

QUIZ: The Ontario NDP is offering ‘change for the better’. They’re not the first. Match these campaign taglines to the leader and election.

Paul Wells on a play about… Joe Clark? ‘1979’ is a surprisingly funny, charming take on the last days of Clark’s government

Most served as corporate directors. Two testified at public inquiries. One will help appoint the next Supreme Court justice.

Missed the talk? Watch the National Arts Centre’s panel on art and reconciliation right here

What happened after the Saskatchewan election in 1929

A new video shows a little levity from the 2011 campaign trail

Colby Cosh on the Lougheed mystique and its legacy

Elizabeth May suggests that, in the event of a by-election in Etobicoke Centre, the Greens and NDP should stand down to allow for a straightforward grudge match between Ted Opitz and Borys Wrzesnewskyj.

Whatever the impact of the attack ads run against him, one historical note on the challenge facing Thomas Mulcair. He will be attempting in 2015 to do something that most leaders of the opposition fail to do: lead their parties to a general election victory on their first try.

Former Speaker Peter Milliken had his official portrait unveiled last week.

“The country does not need another opposition party; the country needs another government.” For a political party pinning its hopes on redemption, it is a worthy sentiment, one that might have fit nicely into any of Bob Rae’s many speeches at last weekend’s Liberal convention. Too bad Joe Clark got there first.

Niki Ashton enters the NDP leadership race.