Essential listening and reading on the week in politics — with bonus interviews
Each week, the Maclean’s politics team and Cormac MacSweeney sit down to hash out the week’s news in Ottawa. This week, Paul Wells reports from Scotland on the nation’s dramatic referendum, John Geddes talks to Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland about the situation in Ukraine, Cormac looks at the political ramifications of Mike Duffy’s trial, Aaron Wherry looks at the NDP’s proposal for a federal minimum wage and the politics panel convenes to consider the permanent campaign that has taken hold of federal politics.
NDP MP Nathan Cullen on a federal minimum wage.
Economist Kevin Milligan on minimum wage policy.
Luiza Savage talks to Nebraska congressman Lee Terry about Keystone XL.
ON SCOTLAND
Scots want better government
ON UKRAINE
Petro Poroshenko visits Ottawa
ON DUFFY
Will his trial devolve into circus?
ON WAGES
The NDP has a proposal
ON DEBATE
What happened to Commons discourse?
ON REFORM
Michael Chong wants to empower MPs