Nov 5 2015 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — In a private moment hours before becoming Canada’s 23rd prime minister, Justin Trudeau was climbing the stairs in an empty Parliament Building, holding his two eldest children by the hands, when he made an unscheduled stop in a hallway holding the portraits of former prime ministers. “Who is that?” Trudeau asked his son and daughter.
Oct 19 2015 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — Most of us can remember the images. People lined up for blocks. Some of them with tears in their eyes. Where was this? South Africa after the end of apartheid. Across the former Soviet Republics of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism. Afghanistan after the fall of […]
Sep 7 2015 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — This is my 14th federal election (no, the first wasn’t Sir John A!) and I wanted to try something different. Why this time? Well, I was tired of hearing many Canadians describe the party leaders as “all the same,” because they’re not. They stand for different things and have conflicting positions on key issues.
Sep 7 2015 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — Anger shot through Stephen Harper the moment he learned Nigel Wright, his wealthy chief of staff, had reached into his own pocket to pay Senator Mike Duffy’s disputed expenses, but that outrage didn’t stop Harper from wishing Wright well before he testified at Duffy’s trial. Those revelations are included in an exclusive interview with CBC […]
Aug 11 2015 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — The video is somewhat faded after 34 years in the CBC library, but it’s pretty clear that the young man shown clapping enthusiastically at a 1981 political rally is Nigel Wright. Even at that young age — he was 18 at the time — Wright was active and dedicated to what was then the Progressive […]
Apr 13 2015 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — Carey Price drives a half-ton truck. A big one. He’s kind of addicted to trucks. In fact, as he wheeled me around downtown Montreal the other day he told me he can’t remember ever driving anything else. It’s not that surprising, actually, when you consider Price, the star goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, is a […]
Mar 12 2015 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — Sgt. Andrew Doiron died almost instantly and his special operations colleagues never returned fire last Friday when Canada’s Kurdish allies suddenly and unexpectedly swivelled their weapons away from ISIS targets to cut them down, CBC News has learned. A senior official with access to the most sensitive intelligence on the incident spoke to CBC News, […]
Nov 11 2014 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — It was an etching of a fish that first caught my eye. It had been penciled into the walls of a tunnel eight metres deep in Vimy Ridge. Drawn there by a Canadian soldier, quite possibly on the night before he and thousands like him stormed out of the tunnels, attacked the German stronghold and, […]
Sep 9 2014 — Peter Mansbridge — CBC — First of all, I’m biased. I love the mystery of the Franklin story and always have, ever since I was a kid. Then at 20, when I started with the CBC in Canada’s North, I continued to be fascinated by the stories I heard of the ships that went missing during Sir John Franklin`s 1845 […]