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 to Senator Serge Joyal and political science professor Emmett Macfarlane about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Senate reform, John Geddes and Aaron Wherry consider the government’s amendments to the Fair Elections Act, Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells sits down with Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, Luiza Savage talks to American senator John Hoeven about the Keystone XL pipeline, Cormac talks to former prime minister Paul Martin about the life of the late Herb Gray and we take a look at a special Maclean’s investigation into sexual assault in the military.

THE HEADLINES

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  ON SENATE REFORM
  Harper abandons planned changes

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  ON FAIR ELECTIONS
  Pierre Poilievre backs off

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  ON THE GRAY FOG
  Herb Gray dies at 82

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  ON ASSAULT
  L’actualité reveals military abuse

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  ON KEYSTONE
  Obama and Harper frustrate each other

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  ON UKRAINE
  Ukraine appreciates Baird’s tough talk