Reading Time: 3 minutes In terms of popular vote share and per cent of seats won, the Liberal win was identical to the Conservative victory in 2011
Author: Pat Murphy
Canadian transcontinental railroad 130 years old Nov 7
Reading Time: 3 minutes On November 7, 1885, the railroad’s ceremonial last spike was driven in Craigellachie, BC
Battle of Agincourt one of the most famous battles in history
Reading Time: 3 minutes “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”
Stephen Harper’s exit
Reading Time: 3 minutes Harper joins the long list of Canadian politicians who stayed too long and pushed their luck too far
Eisenhower’s heart attack and the state of presidential medicine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even the most powerful man on earth doesn’t always get the best medical care
My red lines in the sand before accepting more refugees
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wanting to limit the number of refugees to preserve your way of life doesn’t make you a bad person
Robert Conquest, the man who was right
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologists for the Soviet Union and Stalin in particular, according to Conquest, suffered a form of “mental aberration”
Eamon de Valera Ireland’s most controversial politician
Reading Time: 4 minutes Militant revolutionary, prime player in the Civil War and prime minister for 21 years
Playing politics as an expression of personal identity
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the fundamentals have been achieved, it’s easy for politicians to lose connection with the gritty practicalities of what makes a modern society function
The brouhaha over Greece, Iran and Atticus Finch
Reading Time: 3 minutes Personal reflections on three of the month’s big stories