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, exclusive interviews with NDP leader Tom Mulcair and Finance Minister Joe Oliver, a look at what Canada can do about the international threats of Russia and ISIS, and Paul Wells talks to the premiers.

THE HEADLINES

ON UKRAINE NATO and Russia face off in Europe	ON IRAQ Canada sends advisers to Baghdad
ON THE PROVINCES Paul Wells speaks with four premiers	ON OLIVER Stephen Harper’s latest secret weapon
ON TRUDEAU How Liberals would govern Canada	ON MULCAIR How the NDP would govern Canada

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