Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, Jason Kirby sits down with Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, Aaron Wherry talks to NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, John Geddes interviews Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt and new AFN chief Perry Bellegarde, and the bureau sits down to discuss the fall sitting of Parliament.

ONLINE EXTRA: Andrew Leach on regulating the GHG emissions of the oil and gas industry

ONLINE EXTRA: Privacy expert David Fraser on police, cellphones and the Supreme Court

THE HEADLINES

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  ON OIL
  PM calls unilateral regulations “crazy”

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  ON KENT
  A former environment minister reflects

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  ON TORTURE
  The world learns about CIA methods

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  ON VETERANS
  Sorting out departmental cuts

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  ON FIGHTER JETS
  How long can CF-18s stay airborne?

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  ON POTYs
  We talk shop with parliamentarians

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