IN DEPTH: Coalition crisis
- Q&A: Coalition government
- How might it work in Canada?
- The delicate role of the Governor General
- A viceregal power or an archaic authority?
- Economic update
- Federal government still projecting surpluses — but no guarantees
- When the majority doesn't rule
- Survival isn't easy in often short-lived minority governments
- House of Commons seating chart
- Sort by province, party and gender
- Coalition crisis news archive
- A collection of this CBCNews.ca stories on the political turmoil
Your Voice
- Province by province, readers react to coalition crisis
- Your View
- Send us your political poetry
- Your Forum
- What would your 'fantasy' coalition cabinet look like?
- Your Best Stuff
- Your comments today: Record-breaking numbers
Viewpoint
- WASHINGTON FILE: Neil Macdonald explains the crisis to Americans
- Jesse Brown: Coalition confusion? Here’s your partisan toolkit.
- Norman Spector's advice to the Governor General: let the people decide
- How Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean could possibly decide now that a coalition led by an interim leader and so lacking in democratic legitimacy could provide stable government to Canadians is beyond me.
Blogs
Documents
- The accord between the Liberals and the NDP
- PDF document
- Coalition's policy to address the present economic crisis
- PDF document
CBC Archives
- The King-Byng Affair
- In 1926, Lord Byng, the Governor General, refused Prime Minister Mackenzie King's request to dissolve Parliament and invited the opposition Conservatives to replace King's Liberals as the government.
- Remembering Robert Borden
- In order to pass conscription into law, Borden created a new Unionist party made up of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals, and then called an election, which the Unionist party won.
The unprecedented crisis in Canada's Parliament has generated an unprecedented response from readers of CBCNews.ca. This is a collection of this site's stories on the political turmoil, from the first mentions of the Conservatives' fiscal update that triggered the crisis.
Dec. 8, 2008
Dion will bow out early to clear way for successor
LeBlanc drops out of Liberal leadership race
Skinheads tried to disrupt Liberal-NDP rally in Moncton: RCMP
Dec. 7, 2008
Ignatieff poised to replace Dion with support of Liberal caucus vote
LeBlanc to drop out of Liberal leadership race, support Ignatieff
Thousands rally in downtown Calgary against coalition
Dec. 6, 2008
Dion must go, former Liberal deputy PM says
Harper 'ran away from Parliament,' Dion says
Day urges Canadians to stand against opposition coalition
Dec. 5, 2008
Future of coalition, Dion's leadership uncertain
Attacks on Bloc could boost PQ in Quebec election: candidate, pollster
Albertans take part in rallies for and against coalition
Dec. 4, 2008
GG agrees to suspend Parliament until January
Dissent in Liberal ranks appears after Parliament suspended
Jean's decision sets 'very dangerous' precedent: constitutional expert
Support for Tories up amid House crisis, CBC-EKOS poll suggests
Tories expected to bring battle to the voters
Suspending Parliament won't affect automaker aid, Clement says
Charest warns against Quebec-bashing in Parliament crisis
Premier expresses 'relief' over suspension of Parliament
Dec. 3, 2008
Dion coalition would 'weaken' Canada: Harper
Harper 'lies' about coalition details: Broadbent
Day denies report of 2000 coalition plot with Bloc
McGuinty hopes feds will work on auto help if Parliament prorogued
Former GG says he would support coalition
Ottawa rhetoric likely incited sign burning, B.C. MP says
Anger, elation as Canadians debate political crisis
'Political opportunism' threatens stimulus package, Beatty says
NDP Leader Jack Layton, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe and Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion, from left, in front of Canadian, provincial and territorial flags after their coalition signing ceremony in Ottawa on Dec. 1. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) Dec. 2, 2008
PM dares Dion to face voters with coalition plan
Gov. Gen. rushes home to deal with political turmoil
Tories begin battle against coalition
Quebec leaders, sovereigntists divided over coalition deal
Coalition plan raises dismay, frustration in Alberta
'Not a time to gloat,' says Williams of federal political tussle
'Stay out of it,' opposition tells Yukon premier on opposing Ottawa coalition
Stability needed in Ottawa: Nova Scotia premier
Prospect of Liberal-NDP coalition stirs classroom debate, radio chatter
Local Tories acknowledge party's role in triggering crisis, coalition
'Power should be earned,' says Shea of Liberal-NDP coalition
Dec. 1, 2008
Liberals, NDP, Bloc sign deal on proposed coalition
Harper says Dion playing 'biggest political game in history'
NDP recordings proof of power grab, Tory MP alleges
Stelmach calls on Ottawa to 'stop the nonsense'
Charest wants political crisis in Ottawa resolved fast
Williams government mum on federal coalition
Nov. 30, 2008
Conservatives to deliver early budget
Details of proposed Liberal-NDP coalition emerge
Federal Conservatives issue appeal for donations
Nov. 29, 2008
Conservatives scrap plan to cut party subsidies
Quebec leaders put spotlight on Ottawa upheaval
Nov. 28, 2008
Harper moves to avoid political showdown
Conservatives drop party-funding cuts from key motion
Won't change economic update: Flaherty
Nov. 27, 2008
Federal government still projecting surpluses — but no guarantees
Opposition parties won't support Tory economic update
Nov. 26, 2008
Flaherty to axe subsidies to political parties in fiscal update: sources
Nov. 25, 2008
Dion: PM got it wrong on deficit, recession
Nov. 20, 2008
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