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, interviews with Romeo Dallaire, Tom Flanagan and the carillonneur of Parliament Hill.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON DALLAIRE
  A general retires from the Senate

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  ON FLANAGAN
  The academic recovers from bad press

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  ON ELECTIONS
  The battle for PM is closer than we think

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  ON BY-ELECTIONS
  Aaron Wherry on the PM’s power

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  ON ABORIGINAL TITLE
  Colby Cosh on a landmark ruling

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  ON MACKAY
  The minister’s trouble with women

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