Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, Cormac speaks with Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney about Canada’s most recent terror-related arrests. Insp. Mark Ford of the Ottawa Police Service comments on an internal report into confusion in the wake of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s rampage through downtown Ottawa last year. Vancouver Lawyer Aniz Alani explains his court challenge to compel Prime Minister Stephen Harper to fill mounting Senate vacancies. And the Maclean’s politics panel hashes out an Ontario Provincial Police investigation sparked by the RCMP’s destruction of long-gun registry data, the NDP’s boost in the latest polls, and what might come of those lingering Senate vacancies.

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THE HEADLINES

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  ON BRIDGES
  Canada’s $4-billion gift to Americans

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  ON C-59
  Tories undo alleged law-breaking

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  ON NOTLEY
  The surprising premier, a family story

• ON HARPER
  ‘I like the way me thinks!’

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  ON ELECTIONS
  Tory wins are seldom smooth

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  ON MULRONEY
  Wells speaks with the former PM

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