Hardly a parade of Pravda puff pieces, much of the ink spilled during the recent flurry of Layton retrospectives has actually been fairly critical, skeptical, or at least measured in honestly assessing Jack's pros and cons. And if you thought the Canadian press' obsession with royalty was winding down just because we've gone -- what? -- six weeks without a royal visit, guess again! Several of Canada's leading papers felt inexplicably obligated to devote many inches of concerned columnspace to Prince Harry playing a particularly rousing game of, ah, Vegas hold-em.

In the world of Canadian politics, he was known as the man who led his party to historic wins during the last federal election, but to the hundreds wh...

OTTAWA - It seems the house that Jack built still looks about the same to most Canadians.Fifty-nine per cent of respondents to a Canadian Press Harris...

A year after Jack Layton's passing Canadians are taking time to think about his legacy. To some he stands as a heroic champion of social justice, t...

TORONTO - A year after his death Canadians are still in the dark about what actually killed Jack Layton, who mere weeks before dying had asked voters ...

OTTAWA - Tom Mulcair is the first to admit he's no Jack Layton.But the NDP leader says the lessons learned from his late predecessor, whose memory con...

OTTAWA - Perhaps Canadians are taking Jack Layton's dying wish to heart.From his death bed last summer, the late NDP leader exhorted people to be more...

It has been nearly one year since former NDP leader Jack Layton died of cancer and Canadians are now preparing to gather to mark the anniversary and t...

OTTAWA - Proud.That's the word New Democrats invariably use to describe how Jack Layton would feel about his beloved party's evolution since his untim...