Maclean’s on the Hill – Episode 17

Posted May 9, 2014 09:30:00 PM.

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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: Episode 17

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.

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