Ottawa

Listen to the third episode in our summer series of politics podcasts—produced in our Ottawa bureau

Evan Solomon and John Geddes speed through the week’s political news, including the health minister’s pricey limo and a Tory MP’s social conservative leadership campaign. They also talk about the Tragically Hip’s final show.

How the health minister could have travelled for what she paid a limo to take her around the GTA

The Conservative leader on why she’s promoting home-grown craft brews — and why her beer-pong game is so sharp

From civil liberties to the environment, NATO and deficit spending, the opposition parties can’t wrestle the middle away from the government

A study stresses real religious zeal, not loners seeking a way out

Professor who knew the terrorist suspect discusses his motivations—and his peace bond

The Prime Minister’s team pushes reams of official portraiture over social media, from mob scenes to intimate moments. What, exactly, are they selling us?

The leader and her party don’t see eye-to-eye on the BDS movement. Maybe it’s time for them to go their separate ways.

Last month’s jobs numbers revealed that the Canadian economy didn’t just miss the podium; they showed it’s barely competitive.