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  Don Martin: Craig Oliver turns 80 — credibility spanning decades

  Craig Oliver is usually among the first to show up in the Ottawa bureau in the morning.

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  Don Martin: Nasty Canadian campaign coming? Look south to see the real thing

  Canada, brace yourself. Both the prime minister and the Official Opposition leader warn this year-long fight for your election vote is going to be particularly 'nasty.'

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  Don Martin: Real or hypothetical, Alberta separation angst bound to grow

  Alberta separation talk is not intended as a threat. Yet. It's the sort of grumble which rumbles when Albertans feel they're undervalued as a mere gas tank for Canada's economic engine.

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  Don Martin: Erin Weir investigation worthy of being seen as a witch hunt

  To smear Erin Weir's reputation over a physical proximity issue, if that's indeed all that happened, is to demean the definition of real life sexual harassment and elevate NDP political correctness to the level of paranoia, says Don Martin.

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  Don Martin: Parliamentarians should heed cautionary tales of Alexander, Leitch

  With one simple pledge not to seek re-election, Parliament’s two most infamous star-crossed MPs -- Kellie Leitch and Chris Alexander -- have finally completed a double-helix dive into obscurity.

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  Don Martin: Political correctness behind Sir John A. pub name change

  The Sir John Public House in the Kingston law offices where Macdonald began mapping out a country called Canada, stripped the pub of his name on Tuesday.Surely this is a sign of hyper-reactive cleansing for the sake of political correctness, a small step toward the sort of Stalinist purging of people from Soviet history, says Don Martin.

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  Don Martin: Trudeau showed questionable judgment in meeting with Boyle

  Back on December 18, the itinerary listed nothing about meeting with freed hostage Joshua Boyle and his family, whose five-year ordeal while held captive by Taliban-linked hostage-takers in Afghanistan ended in October. It was a curious omission, writes Don Martin.

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  Don Martin's political predictions for 2018

  After consulting insiders and veteran observers, Don Martin offers a glimpse the year ahead, and hopes his mostly-wrong 2017 predictions were a particularly miserable anomaly.

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  Don Martin's 5 political power players of 2017

  CTV Power Play host Don Martin's picks for the top five political power players of the year: a mix of federal and provincial fresh faces and key figures.

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  Don Martin: Bill Morneau's political fate in Mary Dawson's hands

  If you passed her on the street, you'd be reminded of a Mrs. Doubtfire or a friendly visitor to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. But if those gentle bespectacled eyes narrow and that unassuming tone turns inquisitional, the most powerful politicians in the land ought to be wary of Mary Dawson, writes Don Martin.