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Indeed. George W. Bush, who selects Danforth as VP. Throw in a much worse 9/11, Bush's death, and I think the General could be convinced to serve his country in a higher capacity.

Staffers, even the disgruntled ones who believed Mulcair should've been more aggressive from the start, had begun to speak morosely of the early years of "Orange Ottawa", as it had been dubbed. With the election of Canada's first ever New Democratic government, there was a sense that anything...

First minster's meetings are a Conservative invention. Although Wilfred Laurier was the first to assemble the country's Premiers in 1906, it wouldn't be until R.B. Bennett, elected in 1930, that it was made a regular practice. During Bennett's five-year premiership he hosted the Premier's on...

The Liberals had experienced a weird couple of years. Way back in 2012, rather than let Bob Rae parlay the interim leadership into the permanent gig, the party rallied around a second generation Trudeau. He was bright, youthful, and carried with him a kind of natural Liberal energy that the last...

Forced to resign due to bribery scandals and whatnot. No doubt Republicans were looking for an excuse to get rid of him.

Killed in Ottawa.

Presidents of the United States Former Vice President Richard Nixon of New York / Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland (Republican) 1969 - 1972 -68: Vice President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota/Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine (Democratic), Former Governor George Wallace of Alabama/Ret. General Curtis...

One thing I'm planning on is doing a series of Alternate History book covers for my TL.

Prime Ministers of Canada Pierre Trudeau (Liberal) 1968 - 1978 -74: Robert Stanfield (Prog. Conservative), David Lewis (New Democratic), Réal Caouette (Social Credit) Brian Mulroney (Progressive Conservative) 1978 - 1982 -78: Pierre Trudeau (Liberal), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic), Lorne...

The past is never dead. It's not even past. The guy who wrote that, William Faulkner, would probably find that sentiment applicable to the federal New Democrats and their ongoing identity crisis. For a lot of New Democrats, or left-wingers who had bought up NDP memberships, the big question...

A mainstay of politics in Canada is often described as taking one for the team. You'll never agree on everything, the saying goes, but you suck it up because its in the team's best interest. The Liberal Party is famous for it. Yes, there were spats between leader's and members of the government...