OttawaCanadian politics in 2018: The year in 12 chaptersIll-advised costume changes, a high-stakes pipeline purchase, populist politics, a presidential Twitter tirade, and more from a packed political year
OttawaParliament’s Centre Block is about politics—and journalism, tooAs the main building on Parliament Hill closes for renovations, a nostalgic look at how the place honours the printed word
OttawaJagmeet Singh got lost in the noise of 2018. Will 2019 be different?Singh has often been drowned out as NDP leader. Here’s how he plans to finally make his mark.
OttawaFreeland responds—very carefully—to Trump’s remarks on the Huawei caseThe foreign minister took her time before cautiously pushing back against comments that ’seek to politicize the extradition process’
OttawaLiberals move to defuse Canada Summer Jobs controversyIn an interview, Labour Minister Patty Hajdu explains her response to faith-based groups’ complaints that Ottawa was prying into their beliefs
OttawaJean Chrétien on why he’s leaving OttawaThe former PM sat down with Paul Wells for a live interview on Tuesday, ending on a melancholy note about ending five decades in the capital
OttawaLiberals enjoy strong support for their renegotiation of NAFTAA new Maclean’s-Pollara poll finds the gains, going into an election year, are biggest in Ontario, and seem to take USMCA off the table for Tory attacks
OttawaBill Morneau looks at Trump’s tax cuts—and says Canada won’t play that gameThe finance minister’s fall economic statement offers targeted measures and reassuring talk in the face of stiff U.S. competition for investment
CanadaWhat six soldiers in a World War I art masterpiece might tell us nowFrom heroism to incompetence, the Canadian officers that William Nicholson painted stand in for the full range of wartime experience
PoliticsWhat Trump-era politicians and the press can learn from old-school journalismRobert Lewis’s new history of Ottawa’s press gallery offers lessons for the modern era, when the media is so often under attack