Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, the bureau discusses the Harper government’s economic update, the significance for Canada of a U.S.-China climate pact and the latest revelations about the Ottawa terror attack.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON OTTAWA
  A no good, terrible, very bad year

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  ON BALANCE
  The Tories pitch a shaky budget surplus

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  ON ELECTIONS
  What Tory plans reveal about 2015

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  ON CLIMATE
  Why a U.S.-China pact matters

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  ON HARASSMENT
  Mulcair proposes new measures

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  ON KEYSTONE
  Congress legislates a pipeline

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