Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson shakes hands with flag-toting Jim Soni, 19, in May of 1964 outside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, ON. The University of Toronto student presented Pearson with ...

There's a script that plays out whenever a political party falls apart at the seams ... has written a new book called Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping—The Truth May Hurt, which dispenses with ...

That minority government is unworkable was one of two grand fallacies of that fading, feverish political season. The other was that the Liberal Party ... so. Lester Pearson was elected with ...

Andrew Cohen is a journalist, professor at Carleton University, author of Extraordinary Canadians: Lester B ... Pearson had believed his hawkish advisers, Keith Davey, national director of the ...

On March 31, 1958, Lester Pearson and his wife ... The Liberals fell to 49 seats, the worst defeat in the party’s history. As Maryon contemplated a long, cold season in opposition, she delivered ...

Below, we’ve compared the legacies of Lester B. Pearson’s minority ... Medicare Pearson introduced universal medicare in 1968, due in no small part to the urging of Tommy Douglas and the New ...

QUEBEC CITY – Officials at the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB ... to scrap Bill 86 entirely – and they do have some political support. “We totally support the English community ...

Lester B. Pearson was so delighted by his pick for a potential new Canadian flag that the Liberal prime minister summoned some journalists to 24 Sussex Drive in the summer of 1964 to show it off.