Ottawa

Politics Insider for Feb. 21: The RCMP offers to leave Wet’suwet’en territory, Tory MPs publish the Buffalo Declaration and Chrystia Freeland applauds the NDP

Politics Insider for Feb. 20: The premiers want a chat with the Prime Minister, corporate America turns against capitalism and the Tories flirt with non-confidence in the government

Andrew MacDougall: If there is an off ramp in this crisis, it’s for the PM to stop delaying and start drawing some lines

Politics Insider for Feb. 19: An ’extraordinary’ day in Parliament, NAFTA faces a final hurdle and the Royals have their own Martha’s Vineyard

Paul Wells: In an extraordinary day on Parliament Hill, Andrew Scheer got shut out of protest talks and the PM put a big bet on patience

’Do we want to become a country of irreconcilable differences?...Where politicians are ordering police to arrest people. A country where people think they can tamper with rail lines and endanger lives. This is simply unacceptable.’

Philippe J. Fournier: Who is leading the party won’t matter as much as who can get the vote out in the next general election

Stephen Maher: Erin O’Toole is a well-respected, serious and thoughtful politician. But that’s not what will win over the Conservative base.

Politics Insider for Feb. 14: The latest will-he-or-won’t-he drama (he won’t), railways shut down across Canada and the PM heads to Germany

Andrew MacDougall: It wouldn’t be easy, but Baird’s entrance would give a stale Conservative leadership race the shakeup it so badly needs