John Boyko’s latest history book is a revealing look at John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson’s relationship with JFK
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‘It doesn’t seem important. It is.’
The prepared text of Michael Ignatieff’s speech to the Canadian Club this afternoon.
Newsmakers of the week
Stampede slams, Meghan McCain’s biopic, and Saddam Hussein’s WMD confession
The horror, the horror
Glen Pearson thinks of Apocalypse Now.
Public intellectual
Andrew Steele considers Michael Ignatieff and elitism.
Diplomacy
Apropos of nothing except the fact that I’m reading it, here’s a tale from the second volume of Lester Pearson’s memoirs.
Stephen Harper = John Lennon
Michael Adams discusses his most recent polling on who Canadians admire most. Pierre Trudeau comes first, by a fairly wide margin, with 121 mentions.
Black and white
Life magazine and Google have cooperated to put several centuries of photos online, many of them previously unpublished.
Megapundit: The age of meritocracy
Must-reads: Dan Gardner on the end of capitalism; Don Martin and Janet Bagnall on gender politics.
BTC: Again with the Diefenbaker (II)
The CBC likes the Diefenbaker v. Pearson precedents too, only they’re going with 1965. And reversing the comparison entirely.