John Diefenbaker, Canada’s prime minister from 1957 to 1963, was the head of that government, and it fell in large part—here is where the similarities to today begin—due to American pressure.

Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts visited Canada in October 1957, four months after John Diefenbaker had become prime minister, to receive an honorary doctor of laws from the University of ...

Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government and his Conservative Party lay in shambles. Triggered by a bluntly undiplomatic U.S. note accusing Canada of reneging on its nuclear defense ...

Geoff Russ: Diefenbaker was a victim of foreign interference — just like Canada today Bad actors do, in fact, have great interest in Canadian elections. That's as true now as it was in the 1960s ...

President John F. Kennedy with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker seen here in Ottawa, during his 1961 visit to Canada. Photo by CP PHOTO/DW/staff/The Canadian Press ...

Slouching angularly at his front-row desk in the House of Commons, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker deftly handled some fast-breaking problems of state. With a quick parliamentary ...

TORONTO - Twice-married former Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker — always believed to have been childless — may have fathered not one but two sons, leaving progeny scattered across the ...

(Watch the full video directly below. (If using the National Post iPhone app, the video is at the top of the post.) A populist Conservative prime minister? American interference in Canadian elections?

In The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson, and the Making of Modern Canada, Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson has managed to deftly navigate through the Scylla and Charybdis of golden-ageism and ...