Stories by Kristen Shane
Politics This Morning: Election year begins with Minister Hussen in Vancouver
Plus, the parties are off to a tense start, as the Liberals and Conservatives are nearly neck and neck in the polls.
Plus, the PM is in the Toronto area attending former cabinet minister Donald Macdonald's funeral and meeting with his youth council.
Plus, a bunch of ministers are making announcements across the country, and the finance minister will speak to reporters from Indonesia, where he’s attending IMF/World Bank meetings.
This is Winston Chen’s third posting in Canada, after previous stints in the country in the '90s in Ottawa and in Toronto from 2011 to 2013.
Plus, Global News' The West Block has a new host, and an iPolitics reporter is moving to Canada 2020. 
With support from its two biggest donors in limbo earlier this year, the UNHCR’s donor relations chief met with Canadian officials to tell them just how bad the need is to help an increasing number of people displaced worldwide.Author
MPs working on an hour of sleep wore sweatpants and headphones, read books, and munched on snacks to make it through.
And a couple former MPs are back in the news. 
The cost to run the House of Commons rose $33-million last year to nearly $546-million. 
What Liberals and business representatives think of the government’s response to criticism levelled against its small-business tax proposals.
Ex-Harper PMO staffers Andrew MacDougall and Aliya Mohamed have new gigs. 
Seven of the 10 Bloc MPs rally around former acting leader Rhéal Fortin after they say a staffer close to Ouellet attempted to smear him in the media. 
And Global News' Shirlee Engel hangs up her journalistic hat. 
The country's de facto leader is set to meet with members of the newly renamed Canada-Myanmar Parliamentary Friendship Group, where the rights of her country’s Muslim minority will be raised. 
Erin O'Toole has the most caucus endorsements, from 31 MPs, and four Senators.
'I’m going to do everything I can to ensure he gets elected,’ O’Leary says of Bernier. 
A Turkish journalist’s wife and three kids are moving from place to place in Turkey for their safety. It should be easier to bring people like them to Canada, says PEN Canada.
Senate committee is set to hear from top news agencies on bill to protect journalistic sources.Politics This Morning
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