Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. Among the highlights on week’s episode, niqab politics and the death Sgt. Andrew Doiron in Iraq:

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THE HEADLINES

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  ON NIQABS
  A weak and uninspiring prohibition

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  ON SECURITY
  Death, fear and polling

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  ON LIBERTY
  Jason Kenney rebuts Justin Trudeau

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  ON C-51
  In conversation with Craig Forcese

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  ON RHETORIC
  “Segregationists” vs “Liberty perverters”

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  ON PRENTICE
  A premier’s tough medicine

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