The Tories are enjoying a post-leadership-race bump that’s seen the Liberal lead cut almost in half from 16 to nine points. Though the Liberals are still in better shape than earlier this year.

MPs head back to their ridings for the summer barbecue circuit.

The party says it's providing reporters with 'unprecedented transparency and accountability' at these type of events.

More than half the respondents were aware of the issue, and 44 per cent of them said it changed their opinion of the Trudeau government for the worse, though the same number said their opinion of the government was not affected by Phoenix.

Liberal House members will disembark for the B.C. Interior later this summer, while the party looks to stanch any drop of support in the province.

‘It’s time for the House to take control of its own servants,’ says ex-clerk Robert Marleau.

A media panel at the Canada 2020 conference tackled the evolving digital landscape and the civic perils of misinformation.

Conservative MP Todd Doherty springs into action to perform live-saving CPR, and a Mulroney-era ministerial staffer is appointed head of a healthcare advocacy body.

Liberal MP Scott Simms, Conservative MP Michael Chong, and NDP MP Kennedy Stewart want to fix Question Period, empower backbench MPs, reform House committees, and overhaul their own political parties, once and for all. So they wrote a book about it.

With a late vote in the House, most of the guests were reporters, so it was basically a Press Gallery Dinner reunion.

‘Of course people are getting tired. It’s only natural. But they’re willing to do it, and they know why they’re here,’ says NDP Whip Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet.

The former police chief Blair says he already reached the ‘pinnacle’ of his ‘chosen career’ and is not concerned about getting into cabinet.