Let’s not pretend pot puns will ever go out of style
Politics Insider for Aug. 29: What Scheer’s Catholicism means for the abortion debate, why pot isn’t gold for the Liberals and Doug Ford appeals to Ottawa
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Nick Taylor-Vaisey
Nick Taylor-Vaisey was a digital editor at Maclean’s.
Where the Liberals are spending taxpayer money in the dog days of summer
Just weeks before an election, Liberal cabinet ministers and MPs are fanning out across Canada, doling out money for dairy farmers, steel producers and lots of road repairs
Why are Canadian politicians still fighting about same-sex marriage?
Politics Insider for Aug. 23: Mike Pompeo pipes up for Ottawa, a predictable midsummer Twitter fight—and Jerry Dias pulls no punches
Jerry Dias wants to make an enemy out of Andrew Scheer
The head of Canada’s largest private-sector union says he’s not blindly loyal to any party, but he’ll spend as much money as possible to beat Andrew Scheer
How a bill becomes law—when SNC-Lavalin pulls the strings
The powerful engineering giant had two former Supreme Court justices, a former Privy Council clerk and the PMO on its side. It got everything it wanted—except a deal to escape a court fight
Jennifer Howard’s plan to raise up a struggling federal NDP in Election 2019
The campaign manager’s task: find a way for Jagmeet Singh and the New Democrats, stuck for years in a distant third in the polls, to vault from underdogs to overachievers
The plan to save Canada’s rapidly-melting Arctic ice
The Trudeau government has bowed to years of persuasion by Inuit and has declared a marine protected area in the Far North
Tom Green is here to save the Chateau Laurier
Politics insider for July 12: Another Liberal MP’s (potential) ethical quagmire, Trudeau invokes his kids and our climate change cover
Bombardier succeeds at delivering a Toronto-Ottawa spat
Politics Insider for July 11: The feds pledge support for Canadian beef, a Liberal escapes punishment for rule-breaking, and the Supreme Court gets a new nominee
Why Raptors fans are just fine to watch Kawhi Leonard go home
Nick Taylor-Vaisey: Toronto sports fandom is typically a lifelong exercise in futility with the rare bright spot. Kawhi Leonard reminded us how good the good times can be.