Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, the bureau discusses the the government’s new anti-terror legislation, the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s latest fight for transparency and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emergence as the most powerful woman in the world.

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THE HEADLINES

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  ON MERKEL
  The real leader of the free world

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  ON CARBON
  Trudeau pitches a handout

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  ON HIJABS
  A minister’s odd phrasing

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  ON BILLS
  A possible end of the omnibus

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  ON WELLS
  Our political editor’s live chat

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  ON THE PBO
  DND won’t hand over data

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