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 and Paul Wells join Cormac Mac Sweeney to talk about retired Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps’ damning external review of sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces, the Tories’ canny advertising of perennial tax breaks, and the surprising strength of Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley’s campaign.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON MISCONDUCT
  The military faces a damning report

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  ON CHILDREN
  Harper’s elected kids are all grown up

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  ON NOTLEY
  Andrew Leach on Alberta’s NDP

• ON JEAN
  Andrew Leach on the Wildrose

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  ON DUFFY
  A pox on the Senate

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  ON THE U.K.
  The unwinnable election