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, we tackle the environment debate, the state of the House of Commons and our failing access to information system and we get a look inside the Library of Parliament’s efforts to preserve Parliament’s earliest debates.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON THE TRAGEDY IN THE COMMONS
  Former MPs speak out

• ON CLIMATE CHANGE
  What are we going to do about it?

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  ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION
  What’s wrong with the system?
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  ON THE EARLIEST DEBATES
  Better know our history

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