Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down to discuss the stories behind the week’s stories in our politics podcast, On The Hill.

They also gather in the OMNI studios to talk about the stories that matter. This week, John Geddes, Aaron Wherry and Cormac MacSweeney dissect the debate over Bill C-51, the government’s latest anti-terror legislation.

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

• 
  ON WELLS
  Our political editor’s live chat

• 
  ON THE PBO
  DND won’t hand over data