Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, we look ahead to next week’s federal budget and talk to Liberal finance critic Scott Brison about what he expects, Paul Wells reports from the campaign trail in Alberta, Charlottetown Guardian reporter Theresa Wright joins us to explain how Islanders are feeling about the trial of Mike Duffy, and the bureau sits down to discuss both the budget and the Duffy trial.

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THE HEADLINES

• 
  ON DUFFY
  Nick Köhler from court

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  ON NOSTALGIA
  The storytellers’ chamber

• 
  ON TRUDEAU
  Two years in

• ON A CENSUS
  Short-form improvement?

• 
  ON MODI
  India’s big win in Toronto

• 
  ON CLINTON
  Which Americans does she love most?

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