Lester B. Pearson

Canadian history—from JFK and Diefenbaker, to the last ‘Trudeau Doctrine’—is littered with foreign-policy differences with the U.S.

The brains behind our latest prime minister rankings explain how the survey worked, and what it revealed

Perhaps the finest hour of Lester B. Pearson’s premiership

The president of South Africa’s address to Parliament in 1998

John Geddes on tradition and the Hill

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.

On the argument that we would be well-served by drafting something similar to New Zealand’s cabinet manual, James Bowden notes that Lester B. Pearson’s government drafted something similar in 1968.

Jonathan Aitken lost his cabinet seat, his wife and millions

The Prime Minister will momentarily arrive at Rideau Hall to ask that Parliament be dissolved. Meanwhile this morning, Michael Ignatieff has released a statement on how he would handle a minority government.

Peter C. Newman remembers Keith Davey, the man who invented the modern Liberal party

Jacob Serebrin looks at how the discussion of education policy has and hasn’t changed since Lester B. Pearson addressed the University of British Columbia in 1965. He also digs up a Canadian Press clip from the time that recounts the heckles Mr. Pearson was treated to at that speech and one earlier in the day.

Pearson speech from 1965 shows how much the issues facing higher education have changed and how much they’ve stayed the same