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The best Opposition leader: Mulcair vs. Diefenbaker
Could John Diefenbaker and Thomas Mulcair be the best leaders of the Opposition ever?
Liberals wooing police chief Bill Blair
Toronto’s top cop wouldn’t confirm the rumour
Bernard Valcourt’s biggest haters in Alberta
The Ermineskin Cree submitted their salary disclosure—but hardly silently, claiming government ’coercion’
History, discretion and how to settle an election
What happened after the Saskatchewan election in 1929
Maclean’s on the Hill: Paris, Syria and Julian Fantino
Also on this week’s episode, Martin Patriquin talks about press freedom with Ezra Levant
The Maclean’s Political Panel: Fantino, O’Toole and a growing cabinet
Our Ottawa bureau on the stories that mattered this week
Happy election speculation season!
Will Trudeau live-tweet the debate? What will insiders believe? Only time will tell this election season, Scott Feschuk writes.
The monumental politics behind Ottawa’s newest memorials
Two new Ottawa projects will remind tourists of the darkest chapters of 20th-century world history
Let’s handicap the federal election—in all its infinite possibilities
Aaron Wherry on what it actually means to "win" an election