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Philippe J. Fournier: The Liberals have returned to earth, but neither the Conservatives nor the NDP are profiting from it. Can a new CPC leader move the needle?

Politics Insider for Aug. 13: The Bloc raises the stakes on Parliament Hill, Ontario dumps barrels of red ink onto its budget and Sparks Street begs for visitors in the middle of a pandemic

Politics Insider for Aug. 12: The anonymous knives are out for the finance minister, Carla Qualtrough has some blunt talk and get ready for a drunken invasion of Canada

Politics Insider for Aug. 11: The former Bank of Canada governor is back in Ottawa, the Tories want another WE probe and New Brunswick’s latest political gambit

Marie-Danielle Smith: Waaay back in February focus groups were asked for their thoughts on this year’s economy. How very wrong they were.

Terry Glavin: It turned out that the rest of the world wasn’t as keen on neo-liberal multilateralism as Team Trudeau had imagined

Does Parliament really need to be all in-person? ’The pandemic has shown us that there are different ways of working,’ says cabinet minister Karina Gould.

Politics Insider for Aug. 6: The feds buy ’millions’ of eventual vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, the Tories want another WE probe and Jimmy K just won’t give up

Philippe J. Fournier: Canadian political polls tend to hit the mark, except when it comes to counting Conservative support in the West. What’s going wrong?

Politics Insider for Aug. 5: The chief public health officer says a vaccine won’t erase COVID-19, Doug Ford changes his public image dramatically and buyer beware of certain Canadian-made hand sanitizer