Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, we talk to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg about the situation in Ukraine, sit down with former NDP leader Ed Broadbent to discuss progressive hopes for this year’s federal election, and discuss Bill C-51, budget politics and the battle against ISIS.

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THE HEADLINES

• ON SYRIAWhy Canada must expand its mission

• ON WARStephen Harper makes his case

• ON LAWWhat’s the legal case for war?

• ON HUMOURHansard is worse for a bad joke

• ON MAYLet the Green leader speak

• ON BOTTOM LINESWhat a sluggish economy means

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