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: The mission in Afghanistan is honoured, the politics of abortion return to Parliament Hill and the Harper government wrestles with the Supreme Court.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON ABORTION
  Trudeau bars anti-abortion candidates

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  ON HONOUR
  A secretive effort to honour Afghan vets

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  ON THE COURT
  Stephen Harper vs. Beverley McLachlin

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  ON HARPER
  Henry IV explains the Prime Minister

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  ON LABOUR SHORTAGES
  How little Ottawa really knows

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  ON QP
  Highlights in bickering

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