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David Moscrop: If American elections were run under Canadian rules, would it make a difference in the quality or outcome of their races?

Paul Wells: Two broadly similar candidates lead a claustrophobic leadership race. Conservatives, here’s a thoughtful alternative.

Politics Insider for Feb. 7: Liberals come out opposed to an oil sands mine, Canadians are on the way home from Wuhan and should Canada train its judges?

Well-educated professionals from Nigeria are turning their eyes to Canada after the U.S. expanded its visa and travel bans

Gib van Ert: The new sexual assault bill would require newly appointed judges to take courses on sexual assault law. Seems reasonable, but what will governments try to teach judges next?

Frank Graves and Michael Valpy: As in the U.K. and the U.S., ordered populism has polarized Canada into two incommensurable camps

Allen Abel asks the experts

Politics Insider for Feb. 6: Dominic Barton comes to Ottawa, social conservatives might not have the power they think and Mr. Kenney goes to Washington

The organized SoCon wing looms large over the Tory leadership race. A new report suggests it would tolerate a moderate leader.

Scott Simmie tells Mike Sloan, a friend who wrote about his medically assisted death on Twitter as @mikelondoncan, that he changed people’s lives