OttawaThe feisty first week of the 42nd ParliamentQuestions, complaints and combativeness as the 42nd Parliament gets to work
OttawaDo the Liberals have a mandate for electoral reform?Even before the House of Commons can debate the options for electoral reform, it is arguing over how to choose. Is this a fight the Liberals want?
OttawaInterview: Speaker Geoff Regan on maintaining order in the HouseGeoff Regan, the newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons, talks about his new role and his hopes for maintaining a new tone in Parliament
OttawaA rookie minister finds herself in a minor furorMaryam Monsef, the rookie minister for democratic institutions, faces opposition indignation in her second question period
OttawaHow often should Prime Minister Trudeau be at QP?Justin Trudeau is suggesting a Prime Minister’s question period. But Tom Mulcair worries that will mean less accountability
OttawaCan Justin Trudeau defeat the cynicism of politics?That the Trudeau government might be more open than its predecessor is its least daunting commitment, but also the most fertile ground for complaint
OttawaThe Throne Speech and the ambitious politics of Justin TrudeauJustin Trudeau has set himself up to be defined by his ambitions. The flip side of that could doom him. Aaron Wherry on change’s possibility
Facebook Instant ArticlesA new Speaker of the House for a new kind of Parliament?Geoff Regan is now the Speaker of the House. What impact will he have—or can he have—on how parliamentary work is done?
OttawaWhy Trudeau’s babysitters are in the newsJustin Trudeau’s first controversy erupts—over taxpayer-funded child care in his own home
OttawaThe tactile politics of Justin TrudeauJustin Trudeau stirs the etiquette police with a two-handed handshake for British Prime Minister David Cameron