Brian Mulroney, former prime minister, will get state funeral: source

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney will be given a state funeral, a source close to the Mulroney family says. A Progressive Conservative, Mulroney will go down as one of Canada’s most prominent figures. He died Thursday in Florida at the age of 84. His daughter Caroline said he died “peacefully and surrounded by family.” Born … Read more

Brian Mulroney, former Canadian prime minister, dead at 84: daughter

Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney has died at the age of 84. Born in Baie-Comeau, QC., in 1939, Mulroney would go on to build a political career marked by his leadership of the at-times fractious coalition of Western conservatives, Red Tories and Quebec nationalists that made up the old centrist Progressive Conservative Party, and … Read more