Neville Thompson: Churchill and Roosevelt not only respected King as a ‘highly-skilled and dependable head of a vital country but enjoyed his company and confided frankly in him. They had no idea that he was recording it all in his diary.’
Tag Archives: William Lyon Mackenzie King
What fights about ‘erasing’ history are really about
Canada’s debate about whom and what we remember requires shared sets of facts, ideas and stories—a canon on which we can all rely. It’s time for us to rethink that canon, writes Murad Hemmadi.
What we can learn from a disastrous 1930 U.S. tariff on Canadian goods
As Donald Trump threatens tariffs on steel and aluminum, policymakers should look to history and take heed of the Smoot-Hawley Act’s cautionary tale
Ranking Canada’s best and worst prime ministers
A survey of scholars across the country weigh in on Canada’s best and worst prime ministers, ranked in duration of their terms
Why Wiliam Lyon Mackenzie King was as great a leader as FDR
Massey Lectures: Margaret MacMillan on leadership and masters of the body politic
9 colossal Canadian failures
Rifles that jammed, towns that flopped, plus planes, ice ships and automobiles
REVIEW: King
Book by Allan Levine
Better know a talking point
From the official government lines distributed over the weekend.
Canada’s best Presidents
Relations with the U.S. still depend on how our leaders get along