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 misconduct scandal on Parliament Hill, the resignation of Dean Del Mastro, a new bill to make Remembrance Day a national holiday and a proposal to reinstate the long-form census.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON HARASSMENT
  Trudeau turfs two MPs

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  ON DEL MASTRO
  The Peterborough MP’s final speech

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  ON AMERICA
  How the Republican swing helps Canada

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  ON FAMILIES
  Who wins under Harper’s new tax policy

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  ON NUMBERS
  Why won’t the Tories show us their rough work?

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  ON HISTORY
  A former media baron on the ‘magic thread’

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