Liberals have emerged from their dugout with optimism, but those in the bleachers say it's going to be a very long game. As Liberals hailed last weekend's policy convention as a success, veteran political journalists Orland French and Peter C. Newman —...

But the dramatic events of the May 2011 federal election rudely changed all that. Instead he has written about the Liberal party’s fortunes under Ignatieff’s tutelage and the subsequent collapse of the big Liberal tent. And his second overarching aim...

But he needs a few more months to think about it. Former Liberal Party Leader Michael Ignatieff, and his wife, Zsuzsanna Zsohar arrive on day two of the Liberal Convention in Ottawa. Peter C. Newman, whose suggested a gloomy future for the Liberal...

History is the sum of ascertainable facts, as written by the winners. A loose federation of settlements and regions on the cold periphery of civilization, Canada always has had trouble organizing itself to deal with the crises threatening

But Kalkman, moments after delivering a speech to about 200 Young Liberals here Friday, had no trouble trashing the conclusions in Newman's latest book, When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada. Kalkman, 23 and the author of an infinitely...

It may be that Newman, Flanagan, Martin, and others are irrelevant in an age when political points are made in no more than 140 characters. Whether written in Newman's archaic style or clear, straightforward prose, political books may simply be obsolete.