Louis St. Laurent

What happened after the Saskatchewan election in 1929

From the official government lines distributed over the weekend.

This is the closest Parliament has come to hearing a factual explanation in months

Andrew Coyne on how the former Natural Governing Party might avoid certain doom

AARON WHERRY reports from Canada 150: today the party tackles the world

Last week, Mark Donald heralded a “tide of ennui.” This week, Andrew Coyne writes, somewhat less satirically, of our “deeply, deeply cynical political culture.”

Andrew Steele considers this week’s turn of events.

Canada has suffered through nine elections in June, five of which might’ve technically counted as summer votes. But if you follow the school year definition, there’s been three summer elections—July 1930, August 1953 and July 1974.

“That’s right, children. Not only does our quiet country have plans to make its own jet fighter aircraft — we’ve built an atomic power plant at Chalk River, Ontario! And that’s where we’re harnessing the power of the atom for peaceful uses. Why, by the time you’re my age Canada will produce most of the medical isotopes that cure sick people around the world! That’s a capability no-one will ever be able to take away. And who knows what other great feats Canadians will be accomplishing by then?”

Andrew Steele considers Michael Ignatieff and elitism.

Life magazine and Google have cooperated to put several centuries of photos online, many of them previously unpublished.

There might be plenty of reasons to believe Dominic LeBlanc is the right man to lead the Liberal party. His age, though, is not one of those reasons.