Please, not the bad old days again—not yet 

The mood is still better than it was a year ago, the government still popular. But you can feel a dreary, familiar cynicism creeping back into our politics and into our tired hearts. Someone make it stop.
With every passing week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals look more wily, the Conservatives more whiny, writes Susan Riley.
GATINEAU, QUE.—Sadly, it is slipping away—the new, gentler tone in our federal politics, the refreshing absence of bile, the welcome moments of inter-party collaboration, and across-the-aisle empathy. Not entirely—Rona Ambrose’s genuine distress in the aftermath of the Fort McMurray fire la...

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