You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at After Andrew Scheer resigned as the leader of the Conservative Party, a leadership election began and the man who would win and take over the party was a former soldier named Erin O’Toole...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at When Rona Ambrose took over as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2015, the party began to look for its new permanent leader. It would not be a quick process for the party and would...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at Born in Valleyview, Alberta on March 15, 1969, as Ronalee Chapchuk to Colleen and James Chapchuk, she would grow up in both Parkland County, Alberta and Brazil. Due to her time in Brazil, she...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at From 2003 to 2011, the federal NDP were led by Jack Layton, who took them to their greatest height in 2011 when they became the Official Opposition. After Layton died, the party had to find...
Following the death of Jack Layton, the role of the Leader of the Opposition fell to the second woman to ever hold the post, Nycole Turmel. She had been chosen as the interim leader a month earlier, while Layton battled a second cancer following the...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at When the Liberals fell to third place in the House of Commons, they gave up their Opposition Status. That spot was taken by the New Democratic Party, which had ridden an Orange Wave in Quebec...
After Stephane Dion left as leader of the Liberal Party, the party would turn to a new man in the hopes they could take them from their lowest point and back to the leadership of the country. Unfortunately, this new leader named Michael Ignatieff...
You can support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at From 1896 to 2004, a time of 108 years, the Liberal Party of Canada dominated Canadian politics. In that time, it produced eight prime ministers and had eight official leaders chosen by the...
Way back on June 4, I looked at a man named Daniel Duncan McKenzie. Why am I mentioning him? He was the second episode of the third season, and we are well past that now. Well, he was a Liberal and for the next 90 years, no other Liberal would serve...
For a brief period of time, between Stephen Harper and, well, Stephen Harper, there was a Leader of the Opposition that served for only three months. His name was Grant Hill and today, I look at his life and career. Born on Sept. 20, 1943, in...