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Politics Insider for June 18: Pipeline’s future, Ottawa declares a climate emergency and politicians rubbing shoulders with Raptors

Politics Insider for June 17: Scheer’s lead, the NDP’s big platform release and waiting for Trans Mountain

Politics Insider for June 14: Freeland slams Chretien appeasement plan, Ottawa slaps carbon tax on Alberta and the folly of education spending cuts

Politics Insider for June 13: National pharmacare plan released, Trudeau hits Chinese wall and countdown to Scheer’s climate plan

Two years in the making, Scheer has said it will be ’comprehensive’. ’We have to show both that we’re getting results, but also what’s motivating us.’

Our editorial: Facebook’s senior leadership testified in front of U.S. Congress last year. Neither Zuckerberg nor COO Sheryl Sandberg cared enough to offer Canadians the same courtesy.

Politics Insider for June 12: The politics of extreme weather, advance polls get a boost and USMCA debate gets underway

Voters have long been unmoved by scientists’ dire climate predictions, but fires, floods and other catastrophic weather events might cause a shift.

Politics Insider for June 11: Bans on straws, bans on captive whales and bans on tankers

Matt Gurney: The Ontario premier is parking his government until the fall. Whatever the reason, it’s very good news for the federal Conservatives.