Lester Pearson

John Boyko’s latest history book is a revealing look at John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson’s relationship with JFK

The prepared text of Michael Ignatieff’s speech to the Canadian Club this afternoon.

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Glen Pearson thinks of Apocalypse Now. Because of such influence, the characters in Apocalypse Now all went crazy in a war they...

Andrew Steele considers Michael Ignatieff and elitism. You would be hard-pressed to identify a single Canadian prime minister who...

Apropos of nothing except the fact that I’m reading it, here’s a tale from the second volume of Lester Pearson’s memoirs. In...

Michael Adams discusses his most recent polling on who Canadians admire most. Pierre Trudeau comes first, by a fairly wide...

Life magazine and Google have cooperated to put several centuries of photos online , many of them previously unpublished. For our...

Must-reads: Dan Gardner on the end of capitalism; Don Martin and Janet Bagnall on gender politics. The long and winding road From...

The CBC likes the Diefenbaker v. Pearson precedents too, only they’re going with 1965. And reversing the comparison entirely. Fair...