Also: Senate vacancies are before the courts
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair speaks with the media following party caucus on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday Nov.7, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down to discuss the stories behind the week’s stories in our politics podcast, On The Hill.
They also gather in the OMNI studios to talk about the stories that matter. This week, Paul Wells and John Geddes joined Cormac MacSweeney. The trio hashed out the government’s planned rewrite of a long-gun registry law that could excuse alleged lawbreaking on the part of the RCMP—a feat akin to Bruce Willis’s time travel in Looper. They also make sense of the NDP’s sustained momentum in horse-race polls, a conversation that inspired comparisons between the party’s reunited leadership and Avengers: Age of Ultron. The panel finished by trading thoughts on the future of the increasingly vacant Senate of Canada. Curious how the august chamber resembles Ben Stiller’s Night at the Museum trilogy? Listen to the end.
ON BRIDGES
Canada’s $4-billion gift to Americans
ON C-59
Tories undo alleged law-breaking
ON NOTLEY
The surprising premier, a family story
ON HARPER
‘I like the way me thinks!’
ON ELECTIONS
Tory wins are seldom smooth
ON MULRONEY
Wells speaks with the former PM