Ottawa

Canada’s 20th prime minister wades back into foreign affairs, though the Harper government has distanced itself from his trip to meet Vladimir Putin

When allegations of sexual harassment surfaced on Parliament Hill, Health Minister Rona Ambrose set out to change the culture

Day 14: Nick Köhler on Nicole Proulx’s defiant stand in the witness box

Our bureau on the week in Ottawa

The Ontario budget gave the paper a chance to start getting its coverage right. No luck.

Hint: it’s not families struggling hardest to get by

Joe Oliver asks us to cast our eyes forward from the budget to the future

Day 12: A hint at the Crown’s case against the senator dissolves into Senate rules

The TFSA expansion means that by 2025 almost no one under 40 will pay tax on investment income. We should at least debate whether that’s bad or good.

If oil prices do not rise at the rapid rate predicted by the federal government, the spectre of deficits will return