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Question Period: Government intervention?
Labour Minister Lisa Raitt explains her plan government intervention in the Canadian Pacific Railway strike. Will she order employees back to work if a deal isn't reached?
Question Period: Ready to make a deal
As rumours circulate, Quebec experts on the ground weigh in on the likelihood that protesting students are ready to make a deal on tuition fees, and recent changes in the student movement.
Question Period: E.I. angers Atlantic coast
Seasonal workers are angry over changes to Canada's employment insurance program. Kathy Dunderdale, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, explains why it's hitting the east coast so hard.
Question Period: Growing dissent for Tories?
Tim Harper from the Toronto Star, and Gloria Galloway and Jeffrey Simspon from the Globe and Mail discuss whether dissent is growing in the Conservative caucus after one MP told constituents he couldn't make a difference
CTV's Question Period: Robert Fife in Chicago
CTV's Ottawa bureau chief discusses whether Canada will be asked to leave special forces behind in Afghanistan and how much Canadians will be asked to pay to support the Afghan army.
CTV's Question Period: Peter MacKay in Chicago
The defence minister discusses what role NATO will play in Afghanistan post-2014 and whether NATO has to remain militarily engaged with or without Canada.
CTV's Question Period: Thomas Mulcair reacts
The NDP leader discusses how sustainable development has to become a priority across Canada and says he has never been against the development of oil sands.
CTV's Question Period: Mulcair's comments warranted?
Dan Brock, a Liberal strategist, Mike Storeshaw, a Conservative strategist, and Anne McGrath, Mulcair's chief of staff debate over Mulcair's stance over sustainable development and where the direction of the economy is going.
CTV's Question Period: Combating human trafficking
Luis Cdebaca, the U.S. ambassador for human trafficking discusses whether human trafficking is prevalent in Canada, how victims need to be taken care of and how criminals should be punished.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on this week's headlines
Gloria Galloway with The Globe and Mail, Dan Gardner with Ottawa Citizen and Colin Horgan with iPolitics.ca discuss the G8 summit, Montreal riots and other news making headlines this week.
CTV's Question Period: Finance minister reacts
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty discusses whether a worldwide slowdown could affect Canadian recovery and says necessary steps are being taken to keep Canada on the right track.
CTV's Question Period: Defence minister on costs
Defence Minister Peter MacKay discusses how early he was aware that his department had estimated the cost of the Libya mission to be $100 million.
CTV's Question Period: Debate over environment bill
Megan Leslie, an NDP environment critic and Michelle Rempel, parliamentary secretary to the environment minister debate over environmental laws in the budget bill and how the Harper government is facing heat for overhauling major rules.
CTV's Question Period: Dalton McGuinty, premier
The Ontario premier discusses whether imposing a new fee and pay structure on Ontario doctors will give them an incentive to move to other provinces.
CTV's Question Period: Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, spokesperson
The spokesperson for CLASSE discusses whether Quebec's response to the protest has been appropriate and what lies ahead for the student movement.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on this week's headlines
Gloria Galloway with The Globe and Mail, and Dan Gardner with Ottawa Citizen discuss developments on the environment, Libya mission costs, and NDP's continued success in the polls.
CTV's Question Period: CNN's Matthew Chance
A CNN senior international correspondent reports from Athens and says people in Greece furious over the economic state, and explains there is a political shift away from the large parties.
CTV's Question Period: Cuts to mental health services
Sean Bruyea, an injured military advocate and journalist, explains who will be affected by the cuts. Cpl. Steve Stoesz opens up about his experience when dealing with the gov't with regards to his depression, adding he was ordered not to do the interview.
CTV's Question Period: What exactly will be cut?
NDP Peter Stoffer says more mental health care workers are required, not less, and Conservative Chris Alexander says there will not be any cuts to front line services.
CTV's Question Period: Opposing Northern Gateway
B.C. NDP leader Adrian Dix explains why he is opposed to the Northern Gateway proposal, saying it has been clearly opposed by First Nations, and adding there are few economic benefits for the province.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on this week's headlines
Dan Gardner, Gloria Galloway, and Mercedes Stephenson join Kevin and Craig on The Scrum as they discuss cuts to mental health services in the Canadian Forces.
CTV's Question Period: Bidding process mishandled again
The bidding process for the CCV program has been ordered re-started after being mishandled for a second time. Who's to blame? Conservative member on the Public Accounts committee Andrew Saxton, NDP defence critic Jack Harris and Liberal defence critic John McKay debate the issue.
CTV's Question Period: Sheila Fynes, mother of fallen soldier
The mother of late soldier Stuart Langridge is taking on the government over her son's alleged PTSD, which she claims caused him to take his own life after serving in Afghanistan. Sheila Fynes explains why she is so angry and the things that went wrong after her son's death.
CTV's Question Period: J.C. Watts, former CFL quarterback
Political commentator J.C. Watts and former CFL quarterback hero left pro sports for politics, and threw his support behind Newt Gingrich in the Republican race. With Mitt Romney as the clear winner, Watts explains whether Romney has what it takes to defeat Obama.
CTV's Question Period: The Scrum on this week's headlines
Harper majority one year later. But the Tories are struggling to stay there as the prime minister's personal brand hits new lows. Dan Gardner, Gloria Galloway and Jennifer Ditchburn join Kevin and Craig on The Scrum as they consider Harper's first year with a majority.
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Craig's Take: This may be NDP's moment in history
The New Democratic Party is doing something I would never have thought possible when I covered its founding convention in Regina in 1961. This weekend, they are choosing not just a new leader but someone who will head the opposition parties in Parliament.
Craig's Take: Tory staffer caught up in Robocall
Despite all the denials from every level of the Conservative Party, however, the opposition says it has been the victim of a massive campaign of electoral fraud.
Craig's Take: Gov't takes on Twitter
For the first time, the power of social media has caught a Canadian government in its cross-hairs. The Twitter universe has been swamped by opponents of changes in the laws which allow police to collect personal information on Internet users without having to clear it with a judge.
Craig's Take: Go east, young man
Canada has a lot to gain from this tilt of the global economic gravity away from the West and toward the Pacific.
Craig's Take: The politics of pipelines
Canadian pipelines have become a hot issue in the domestic politics of both Canada and the United States, and there is a lot more to come.
Craig's Take: A Child's Christmas in Rupert
CTV's Chief Political Correspondent Craig Oliver remembers a cold, snowy Christmas that started out on a sad note, but ended with a lift to his self esteem.
Craig's Take: What's next for Attawapiskat?
The long and often shameful history of deteriorating Aboriginal communities in the North and federal government inaction endures.
Craig's Take: Is there a survival plan for health care?
Is a a survival plan for medicare in the works? Much of the coming debate may focus on whether the system will permit more health-care entrepreneurship and private-for-profit, medicine.
Craig's Take: Flaherty proved his critics right
A reputation in politics can sometimes be lost pretty quickly. You don't have to go any further than the Liberal Party to know that. And now the Conservatives may be at risk of going down that road themselves on their reputation for deft management of the economy.
Craig's Take: Major decision looms for the XL pipeline
It is at least arguable that no Canada-U.S. event in recent memory has caused so much personal pain for an American administration than the construction of the XL pipeline is causing for U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Craig's Take: Memoir was race against worsening vision loss
Craig worked on his book in fits and starts over the last 15 years, but it became a race against the enveloping darkness of vision loss as time went on.
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Craig's Take: Don't get caught up in contract fairness
The chattering classes in Ottawa seem to have arrived at a consensus that the manner in which the $33-billion shipbuilding contracts were handed out was fair.
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Craig's Take: NDP leadership race set for drama
There may be one more candidate yet to come if NDP critic Peggy Nash jumps into the fray, but with the entry of Quebec's Thomas Mulcair on Wednesday, the party's leadership field is pretty much complete.
Craig's Take: The meaning of incumbent wins
After five elections in five months, why are voters staying the course? And - Is it time for online voting?
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Craig's Take: How two elections could impact Cdn. politics
The results of a provincial election in Ontario and a leadership race in Alberta could have a lasting impact on national politics.
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Craig's Take: Too big to bail out
If the world slips into the second recession in three years, as many leading economists believe it will, it will be much worse than the last one.
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Craig's Take: Expect the unexpected as Parliament returns
The return of Parliament on Monday marks a watershed, in the life of the country. Whether it will be an eventful Parliament or not is difficult to say because it also contains unprecedented elements.
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Craig's Take: Anti-terrorism laws re-introduced to satisfy U.S.?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced this week that Canada will re-introduce draconian anti-terrorist laws introduced in the months after the 9-11 attacks but allowed to lapse 4 years ago. One can be forgiven for suspecting these measures are being revived more to satisfy American fears than for our own domestic needs.
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