What happened after the Saskatchewan election in 1929
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Better know a talking point
From the official government lines distributed over the weekend.
The Commons: Lawrence Cannon explains everything
This is the closest Parliament has come to hearing a factual explanation in months
The end of the Liberal empire
Andrew Coyne on how the former Natural Governing Party might avoid certain doom
Searching for the Liberal Party. Day 3.
AARON WHERRY reports from Canada 150: today the party tackles the world
Governing with consent
Last week, Mark Donald heralded a “tide of ennui.” This week, Andrew Coyne writes, somewhat less satirically, of our “deeply, deeply cynical political culture.”
Blessed relief
Andrew Steele considers this week’s turn of events.
A short history of summer elections
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.
The golden age of Canadian technical know-how
“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?”
Public intellectual
Andrew Steele considers Michael Ignatieff and elitism.