Trudeau and Mulcair today: Compare and contrast
On a day where both opposition leaders deliver major speeches, the Liberals find themselves trying to light a fire while the NDP strives to ease anxieties
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What it feels like to be a lockmaster on the Rideau Canal
See what it takes to be a lockmaster on the Rideau Canal, a picturesque chain of lakes, rivers and canal cuts joining Kingston and Ottawa. Helping to move a riverboat through the waterway is all in a day’s work for this lockmaster.
What it feels like to be at the Canadian War Museum on Remembrance Day
On November 11, at exactly 11:00 a.m., sunlight shines through a single window in Memorial Hall at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, illuminating the headstone from the tomb of Canada’s Unknown Solider. This is what it’s like to experience this sombre event in our nation’s capital.
Parliament Hill’s very own Hogwarts
#DuffyTrial hears senators’ assistants aren’t schooled on finance rules
Maclean’s on the Hill: Senate audit, marijuana, veterans affairs
Also: What might Gilles Duceppe’s return mean for federal politics?
Duffy in the witness box: Repeat it enough and it may come true
Courtroom 33’s great drama: arguments about witness scheduling
The Maclean’s Politics Panel: Senate audits, Duceppe’s return
Also: Should the House open its books to the AG?
Cartoon playhouse: Mike Duffy in Trial of the Century
’Leave it with me, doll. Donahue’ll pay.’
Where the provinces stand on Senate reform
An elected or abolished Senate is going to need provincial support. So here’s what the provinces have to say.
Another Chris Alexander Heritage Minute
The Immigration Minister makes up some random fake history. Paul Wells corrects the record.