Back in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, Don Newman, now 78, who first got a job on the Hill as a young reporter for The Globe and Mail in 1969, remembers pushing past the crowd of drinkers in the Hot Room to file his stories.

Graham Steele talks about his book, The Effective Citizen: How to Make Politicians Work for You, and how he explores 'the last frontier of politics, inside the politician's head.'

The 43-year-old Independent Quebec Senator knows he’s been given a second chance and says he’s going to try to do the right thing over the next 32 years in the Senate. But one Indigenous source said it will 'take years and years of quiet, dedicated hard work at the grassroots level' for Sen. Patrick Brazeau to redeem himself with First Nations.

In Maximum Canada, Doug Saunders says Canada should be preparing now for population growth, or else.

Alex Marland talks about winning the $50,000 Donner Prize for his book, Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control.

Peter Nicholson talks about heading up this year's Donner Prize jury and what it's like to judge for the best public policy book of the year.

In his book, Down Inside: Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service, former deputy warden Robert Clark says after spending 30 years working in some of Canada's most notorious prisons, humane treatment and rehabilitation is better than the tough-on-crime approach with prisoners. But he's not sure anyone's listening.

Dale Smith talks about his book The Unbroken Machine: Canada's Democracy in Action.

In his new book, veteran foreign affairs reporter Mike Blanchfield analyzes Harper's foreign policy and looks at the challenges ahead for the Trudeau Liberals.