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Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The recent uproar in Ottawa got me thinking of my earliest memory of Canadian politics. John Diefenbaker lost the 1963 federal election to Mike Pearson and the Liberals. The defeat was followed by another defeat in 1965 but in both cases the Liberals obtained minority governments. My memory dates to just before the 1965 election when it was becoming clear the government would fall and an election...
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Jay Currie (Free subscription) | yesterday
I wrote this over at Alan’s: As my old professor Keith Spicer memorably put it - “There is an anger in this land.” After being fed the Liberal Party/National Media line that to co-operate with Quebec separatists was pretty much treasonous there is the Toronto Party, with the Annex Media, on its knees co-operating. From a Western perspective this is Diefenbaker and the NEP rolled into one. Rule...
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Sturdy and Serviceable (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
I mean, TV I am watching. Life! Why should you watch it? Because it is due South for the next generation. NO WAIT. I will demonstrate. Charlie Crews He's Benton Fraser + Diefenbaker. He was convicted of multiple homicides, and jailed. His wife divorced him, his partner thought he was guilty, and the police department dramatically failed to rally around one of their own. After 12 years enjoying...
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that ring of confidence (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... of annoying, the same way it was kind of annoying when John F. Kennedy tried to get rid of John Diefenbaker. Even though the polls say that Obama is leading, it's hard to believe he's going to win. The way that some people in the states just irrationally hate him, it's hard to see it being an easy victory. I might not love Harper, but I'm certainly not angry about him. He's just sort of...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Dubin's was the last of a select group of lawyers who dominated the legal landscape in the 1950s and 1960s, a list that included names such as John Robinette, Arthur Martin, John Arnup and Arthur Maloney. Equally at home in criminal or civil cases, he represented unions, newspapers and former prime minister John Diefenbaker during an inquiry into a 1960s government sex scandal involving an East...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Dubin was well-known for being equally skilled in civil and criminal cases. He acted for newspapers, labour unions and represented former prime minister John Diefenbaker at an inquiry into the Gerda Munsinger affair, named for the woman at the centre of a 1960s sex scandal involving a federal cabinet minister.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
... When the Liberals were in a similar jam in 1960, facing the formidable political hypnotism of John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson organized a four-day meeting at Kingston, Ont., that brought activists and academics together in a rare free-form gathering. Three years later, that radical process - and enlightening contents of its presentations - breach-birthed a victorious Liberal Party, based...
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David Frum's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
... have the first NDP government east of Ontario. 2. The courtship of Quebec will continue. Not since Diefenbaker has a national party won a majority government without seats in Quebec. Had the Conservatives’ pre-writ support held, we probably would have pulled out a minimum of twenty additional seats and had a majority government. The strategic problem for a national party is that they have...
