Maclean’s on the Hill: Afghan stability, doctor-assisted suicide
Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. Expect incisive analysis and commentary, as well as interviews with the biggest newsmakers of the last seven days. This week, we talk about Afghanistan’s stability with Afghanistan’s first Minister for Women’s Affairs, hear Conservative MP Steven Fletcher’s case for doctor-assisted suicide, muse about bilingual tensions around the world with Canada’s official languages commissioner, and learn more about war art from World War One.
THE HEADLINES
ON QUEBECMaybe the PM has slain the separatists
ON PARLIAMENTAn insider’s guide with Paul Wells
ON STUPID QUESTIONSA Tory MP tests a new rhetorical low
ON HARPERThe PM makes the case for himself
ON REFUGEE HEALTHWhy federal cuts may not be cruel
ON MONCTONTough questions about a deadly shooting
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