Wednesdays with @Kady replay: Game on (finally) for Liberal race

There's always plenty to chat about with Kady O'Malley.

On Wednesdays, CBCNews.ca's Politics blogger convenes a "people's caucus" to discuss and debate the week's top stories.

Featured today:

It's been simmering ever since Michael Ignatieff was defeated in the 2011 election. But today, federal Liberals officially kick off their leadership race, with former MP and newly-debt-free leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay bringing the field up to five declared candidates (with more expected.)
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Peter Penashue tells his constituents he'll explain his campaign spending – and then doesn't, at least not yet.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's fall economic update yesterday told Canadians it's going to take an extra year to balance the books, thanks to the world's economic difficulties.

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Power & Politics Ballot Box question by Rosemary Barton May. 24, 2013 4:48 PM Does Rob Ford's statement put an end to the allegations of crack use?

3 more suspects arrested in slaying of U.K. soldier: British police investigating the savage killing of an off-duty soldier in London have arrested three more suspects. more »

Toronto mayor's brother says he never dealt drugs: The brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations in Saturday's Globe and Mail that he was involved in the illicit drug trade in the 1980s. more »
Hockey Canada votes to ban bodychecking in peewee hockey: Hockey Canada's board of directors voted to eliminate bodychecking from peewee-level hockey on Saturday in Charlottetown. more »
Neil Macdonald: How serious is Obama about curbing the drone surge?: In a key speech this week, the U.S. president set out a host of supposed new safeguards for America's controversial practice of remote-controlled rough justice. But as Neil Macdonald writes, the underlying rationale for drone use has not fundamentally changed. more »
Ontario man lost in Australian mountains has survival skills: The sister of an Ontario man who disappeared in Australia's Snowy Mountains nearly two weeks ago says she remains hopeful he will be found, partly because of his training as a Canadian Forces reservist. more »

Toronto mayor's brother says he never dealt drugs: The brother of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations in Saturday's Globe and Mail that he was involved in the illicit drug trade in the 1980s. more »

Ethics probe comes with limits, federal watchdog says: As the federal ethics commissioner readies for a third look at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former chief of staff Nigel Wright, Mary Dawson is reminding Canadians her office can only look so far. more »
PM's credibility at stake in growing Senate expenses crisis: With the prime minister's credibility at stake in a growing political crisis, has Stephen Harper done enough to explain his former chief of staff's $90,000 cheque to Senator Mike Duffy? Listen to CBC Radio's The House with Evan Solomon here. more »
Wallin may be forced to repay thousands in travel expenses: Pamela Wallin, the Senator from Saskatchewan, was back in the news this week, refusing to tell CBC News if she had repaid any travel expense money. more »
B.C. election proved campaigns matter more than ever: The surprising majority win by Premier Christy Clark in this month's B.C. election showed that campaigns matter, especially in the last days leading to election day. And for the pollsters, it was strike three, writes the CBC's Bob Weiers. more »

Harper's credibility at stake in growing Senate expenses crisis May. 25, 2013 2:21 PM This week on The House, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel and Liberal Senator James Cowan on the Senate expenses scandal. Former chief of staffs Keith Beardsley and David McLaughlin on Nigel Wright's $90,000 gift to Senator Mike Duffy. Plus, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall on his plea to abolish the Senate. All that and much more!