Stephen Harper’s to-do list before Parliament breaks for summer
Conservatives swamped with multi-billion dollar decisions on energy, trade and defence
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Maclean’s on the Hill: Heyman, prostitution and carbon emissions
Essential listening on the week’s headlines from the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau
Legal experts divided on justice minister’s prostitution reforms
It’s not clear how new law responds to the court ruling that struck down the old ones.
The public fuss over the privacy commissioner
Welcome to the job, Daniel Therrien
The iPod tax is dead. Good riddance.
This was an absolutely unnecessary battle
A few more thoughts on Trudeau, abortion and the party whip
Why should any vote be free? Why shouldn’t they all?
Former Reform colleague questions Harper’s MP pension reforms
Tom Corbett and Stephen Harper once agreed on ‘pension pigs’—until actual retirement got in the way
Climate change: What if we just say everything is a carbon tax?
The state of the debate
Maclean’s Live: Bruce Heyman speaks
The U.S. ambassador delivers his first major speech in Canada
The easiest way to make the House of Commons less (or more) relevant
What if we had a place where ministers could make announcements?