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Longtime political cartoonist, radio commentator and author Peter Pickersgill of Salvage, N.L., died Saturday in Gander.

Conrad Black: The Opposition's odious ineptitude Conrad Black © Provided by National Post Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole It is almost unimaginable, given the horrifying shambles that the present federal government has made of almost everything, that it is potentially on the brink of a premature election, confident that it can regain a majority. The only explanation for this is the traditional unfeasibility of the federal Conservative party. Once the Liberals adopted the policy of alternating English and French-Canadian leaders, and the Conservatives obligingly recruited ...

24 HOURS ON PARLIAMENT HILL Peter C. Newman What happens on the floor of the House is everybody’s business, but here’s what goes on backstage in Canada’s most important building The magnificent Victorian pile in downtown Ottawa that serves as our parliament is the most important and most familiar building in Canada. Every day thousands of words are written and broadcast about the political activities within its grey sandstone walls. Far less familiar is the fact that our legislators spend astonishingly little time legislating; most of their day is occupied with tasks and diversions seld...

Article content UBC Press has just released “The Unexpected Louis St. Laurent,” a study of the former prime minister (1948-1957 ), whose title implies that he has been underestimated. He was the first Canadian prime minister that I remember in office and the first whom I met, in his later years, including an interview he graciously gave me for my book about Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis (1936-1939, 1944-1959). St. Laurent is the only such prominent figure I have known of whom I have never heard a negative, or even slightly disrespectful, comment, including from his opponents, Pro...