The Throne Speech: More will be done
Paul Wells: If the Liberals’ goal was to be deliberately vague, well, the Trudeau team’s speechwriters absolutely nailed it
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To our new Parliamentarians: Don’t be a**holes
Scott Gilmore: On your first day in the House, you’re going to see your colleagues heckle. It’s a stain on the beating heart of our country.
Canada is being bullied by China. Here’s how it can shut it down.
Amir Attaran: There is one legal move that would prompt immediate action—shutting down Canadian airspace to Chinese cargo services
Playing with Alberta’s public-sector pension system
Stephen Maher: Outrage over Justin Trudeau has distracted from some worrisome moves Jason Kenney is making in Alberta
Throne speech: Governor General outlines Trudeau’s second mandate - Live video
Watch live as the Queen’s representative Julie Payette delivers the speech from the throne, which will lay out the priorities for the Liberal government
Two-faced, blue-faced, Trudeau, Trump
Politics Insider for Dec. 5: Trump goes after Trudeau, Parliament returns and the Parliamentary lifetime achievement award goes to...
The Maclean’s 2019 Welcome to the Hill event in pictures
The annual gala honouring MPs featured Paul Martin and Lifetime Achievement Award winner Ethel Blondin-Andrew
From residential school runaway to trailblazing MP
Ethel Blondin-Andrew, this year’s Maclean’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner: ’The way you treat people is the way that you will be remembered’
Come for the Trump-Trudeau handshake, stay for the squirm
Politics Insider for Dec. 4: Justin Trudeau and other world leaders gossip about Trump, some branding advice for Conservatives and John Manley calls for ’prisoner swap’ with China
The Trudeau government’s high noon moment with Beijing
A Senate motion puts the Liberals at a crossroads. Will they break with their party’s entrenched pro-China lobby? Or reward Beijing’s bullying and hostage-taking?