Lester Pearson

John Boyko’s latest history book is a revealing look at John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson’s relationship with JFK

The prepared text of Michael Ignatieff’s speech to the Canadian Club this afternoon.

Stampede slams, Meghan McCain’s biopic, and Saddam Hussein’s WMD confession

Glen Pearson thinks of Apocalypse Now.

Andrew Steele considers Michael Ignatieff and elitism.

Apropos of nothing except the fact that I’m reading it, here’s a tale from the second volume of Lester Pearson’s memoirs.

Michael Adams discusses his most recent polling on who Canadians admire most. Pierre Trudeau comes first, by a fairly wide margin, with 121 mentions.

Life magazine and Google have cooperated to put several centuries of photos online, many of them previously unpublished.

Must-reads: Dan Gardner on the end of capitalism; Don Martin and Janet Bagnall on gender politics.

The CBC likes the Diefenbaker v. Pearson precedents too, only they’re going with 1965. And reversing the comparison entirely.

As reported elsewhere today, Canada’s next great ice-breaking vessel is to be named for our 13th Prime Minister, John George Diefenbaker, to whom our present PM seems to have taken a certain fondness.

Back, for a moment, to David Foster Wallace’s take on John McCain.