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: Cormac speaks with former PMO advisor Bruce Carson, Maclean’s science reporter Kate Lunau reports from the Prime Minister’s maternal health conference, John Geddes talks to NDP Charlie Angus about an end-of-life care motion passed by the House and we look closer at the government’s jet fighter procurement and the Obama administration’s new environmental regulations.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON CARSON
  A former PMO insider faces charges

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  ON MATERNAL HEALTH
  Harper’s bad day at a summit

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  ON END-OF-LIFE CARE
  Maclean’s hosts a national dialogue

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  ON OBAMA
  The president fights a war on coal

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  ON F-35s
  Tories consider the fighter jets

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  ON QP
  Highlights in bickering

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