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

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  ON SYRIA
  Why Canada must expand its mission

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  ON WAR
  Stephen Harper makes his case

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  ON LAW
  What’s the legal case for war?

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  ON HUMOUR
  Hansard is worse for a bad joke

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  ON MAY
  Let the Green leader speak

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  ON BOTTOM LINES
  What a sluggish economy means

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