Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, the bureau discusses the the government’s new anti-terror legislation, the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s latest fight for transparency and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emergence as the most powerful woman in the world.

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THE HEADLINES

• ON MERKELThe real leader of the free world

• ON CARBONTrudeau pitches a handout

• ON HIJABSA minister’s odd phrasing

• ON BILLSA possible end of the omnibus

• ON WELLSOur political editor’s live chat

• ON THE PBODND won’t hand over data

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