Each week, the Maclean’s Ottawa bureau sits down with Cormac MacSweeney to discuss the headlines of the week. This week, we look more closely at the politics and economics of balancing the federal budget, and talk to Bob Rae about his new book, What Happened to Politics?

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Aaron Wherry on the election week that was

Evan Solomon on what to watch on the campaign trail

THE HEADLINES

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  ON BALANCE
  Mulcair promises black ink

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  ON DEFICITS
  Trudeau pitches red ink

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  ON CHOICES
  Try our Policy Face-off Machine

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  ON EMAILS
  How to ignore your inbox

• ON BOYS CLUBS
  The speech Joe Oliver never made

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  ON BATTLEGROUNDS
  Two boy wonders want Ajax