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, we talk about Afghanistan’s stability with Afghanistan’s first Minister for Women’s Affairs, hear Conservative MP Steven Fletcher’s case for doctor-assisted suicide, muse about bilingual tensions around the world with Canada’s official languages commissioner, and learn more about war art from World War One.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON QUEBEC
  Maybe the PM has slain the separatists

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  ON PARLIAMENT
  An insider’s guide with Paul Wells

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  ON STUPID QUESTIONS
  A Tory MP tests a new rhetorical low

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  ON HARPER
  The PM makes the case for himself

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  ON REFUGEE HEALTH
  Why federal cuts may not be cruel

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  ON MONCTON
  Tough questions about a deadly shooting

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