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The Maclean’s politics panel: Pure policy, pure politics
The Ottawa bureau discussed the stories that have Ottawa talking
Nothin’ wrong with a little baby-tossing
Men’s hobbies and preoccupations do not discount their political insights and analyses. Neither should women’s
The menace next door: a dumb America
Hey, Politico: Terrorists from Minneapolis aren’t a Canadian threat.
Irwin Cotler’s Speak No Evil Day
As part of our series of stories about the House of Commons ahead of this year’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards I wrote about...
The Tories and the TV networks: Who is censoring whom?
A Conservative plan to safeguard attack ads draws an attack of its own, and creates a thorny dilemma for networks
Editorial: Harper’s not-so-hard-right turn
Election campaigns are all about positioning. Those who see Stephen Harper cleaving to the hard right should look again.
Does Parliament need a national ‘speak no evil’ day?
MP Irwin Cotler’s motion sets out to find the delicate line of partisanship between vicious attack and honest airing of differences
A tough day at the Supreme Court for supporters of a ban on assisted suicide
What do yesterday’s hearings suggest about a ruling?
Supreme Court hearing on assisted suicide attracts overflow crowd
Maclean’s contributor Cormac MacSweeney reports from the start of the hearings