CanadaIn British Columbia, a real-estate rage gets realAs an election looms, the B.C. NDP are bringing data to the angry debate over foreign buying in the housing market
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OttawaBuilding a consensus on climate change? Not so easy, after all.When the premiers balked at a pan-Canadian tax on carbon, the Prime Minister was left to speak vaguely. Is a cohesive national plan even possible?
PodcastMaclean’s on the Hill: Is it time for a sugar tax?The Maclean’s Ottawa bureau gives you its weekly audio briefing on Canadian politics
PoliticsA national energy strategy everyone agrees on but nobody will act onAnd with another pipeline spill, it’s hard to see how the newest provincial blueprint for an energy strategy will accomplish anything
PoliticsChristy Clark: The comeback kidHer poll numbers are sinking and missteps are piling up. So how is Christy Clark still smiling—and thriving—in the ruthless world of B.C. politics?
CanadaPaul Wells in Conversation: Christy Clark The B.C. premier talks energy exports and all that’s at stake
UniversityPayments scandal at Kwantlen UniversityMinistry report finds board that included minister flouted compensation rules
Ottawa5 at 5: B.C. apologizes for treatment of Chinese CanadiansAlso: Turkish PM’s aide kicks protester and a prof gets his tenure back, one day later
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