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BTC: Again with the Diefenbaker (II)

The CBC likes the Diefenbaker v. Pearson precedents too, only they’re going with 1965. And reversing the comparison entirely. Fair enough. While we’re here though, consider this description of...

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John Godfrey’s politics

Though he won’t be participating in the upcoming federal election, a word or two needs to be said about John Godfrey. The outgoing MP for Don Valley West in Toronto, Godfrey will be ceding his position...

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Megapundit: He “changed the subject”

Must-reads: Robert Fulford, John Ibbitson, David Frum, Doug Saunders, Dan Gardner and John Ivison on the only thing that matters today. Oh yes he did What the 44th President means to the United States,...

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Black and white

Life magazine and Google have cooperated to put several centuries of photos online, many of them previously unpublished. For our purposes, there is an impressive collection of prime ministers, at least...

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To infinity and beyond

In addition to a Twitter feed, this blog now has a YouTube hub—including (so far) 60 videos and links to the YouTube channels of Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff and this magazine’s own collection of...

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Welcome to Canada, Mr. President

Since Barack Obama will be in Ottawa this week, we thought it timely to look back at some previous presidential visits to our nation’s capital. Franklin D. Roosevelt: August 1943 The city proclaimed a...

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The last of the Kennedys

The three brothers share a Virginia hillside with a view of a city that few would call shining. John F. Kennedy’s gravesite—as befitting a fallen president—is the most elaborate. A large circular stone...

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The huge secret about FDR’s death

Dwight Eisenhower’s heart attack, LBJ’s gallbladder, Kennedy’s many ailments, even George Bush Sr.’s bout of nausea in Japan: ever since the occupant of the White House became the Most Powerful Man in...

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Newsmakers

You wouldn’t want to cross either one Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin burnished his credentials as a man of action last week, while also asserting some Arctic sovereignty. He helped scientists...

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Born in the U.S.A.

Keystone Press/ Bob Falcetti/Getty Images Half a century ago, when religion entered the political arena in the U.S., it was as a matter of tensions between denominations, the kind of flare-up in tribal...

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JFK’s Secret Service agents speak, at last

George S. Zimbel/Getty Images For more than four decades, the forces of orthodoxy, from the 1964 Warren commission to Vincent Bugliosi’s 1,648-page Reclaiming History (2007), have insisted that Lee...

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‘Parkland’ gives J.F.K. back to the people

Claire Folger / Exclusive Media Entertainment This Nov. 22 will mark the 50th anniversary of an event that was the pivotal tragedy of modern America, at least until 9/11. The shots that rang out on a...

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A look at the people who believed JFK was ‘Wanted for treason’

Dallas 1963 By Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, people are still debating whether the killing was the product of one diseased mind (or more,...

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Wondering what JFK would have done on Vietnam: Galbraith’s impression

In the flood of sad reminiscence on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the question of whether he might have extricated America from Vietnam, rather than escalating U.S....

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Front-page gallery: Nov. 22, 1963

[View the story “Nov. 22, 1963: John F. Kennedy killed in Dallas” on Storify] The post Front-page gallery: Nov. 22, 1963 appeared first on Macleans.ca.

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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination President John F. Kennedy. To remember the event, Boston.com will provide a live experience of the event, as they would cover it today. Using...

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10 reasons why ‘Dief the Chief’ and JFK hated each other

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker is seen here with U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Ottawa in 1961. (CP PHOTOS) John Diefenbaker had a famously toxic relationship with John F. Kennedy. John Boyko,...

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Thousands of CIA intelligence memos to JFK, Johnson made public

AUSTIN, Texas — As the U.S. and Russia reached the brink of nuclear war in 1962, President John F. Kennedy received top-secret intelligence from the CIA that a new warhead launcher was spotted in...

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John F. Kennedy’s turbulent relationship with Canada

John Diefenbaker and John F. Kennedy seated and chatting in the Oval Office, White House, Washington D.C., 20 Feb 1961.University of Saskatchewan, University Library, University Archives & Special...

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Camelot and Canada: When Diefenbaker met Kennedy

Book review: Camelot and Canada by Asa McKercher The similarities between the John Diefenbaker—John F. Kennedy relationship and that of Stephen Harper and Barack Obama are striking. Both Diefenbaker...

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Who really killed JFK? We might get new insight in 2017.

President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connally ride through the streets of Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. (Corbis/Getty Images) On Nov. 22, 2016—53...

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Thanks, JFK: How Canada scored the top spot for U.S. inaugurations

President John Kennedy confers with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. The two men will talk over matters between the two countries. (Bettmann/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The story of how Canada wound up...

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Canada’s break with America on foreign policy isn’t so novel

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau speaks outside the White House, 3/25, after concluding talks with President Nixon, right. Trudeau was the first world leader to be officially received at...

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Justin Trudeau’s swing set: Which world leader had the best playground?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently faced criticism over upgrades to his official summer residence at Harrington Lake, including $7,500 reportedly spent on a new play structure. Andrew Scheer, the...

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