"Our society is now in the throes of a desperate battle. The life of democracies around the world is being torn asunder as if by two wolves," writes Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
It won't be much of a summer vacation - the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands is deciding whether to resign as party leader after members voted to support sanctions against Israel.
Federal hearings reviewing the biggest pipeline project ever proposed in Canada got off to a rocky start as a Jean Charest pipeline controversy flared up in Quebec.
The federal government is standing firmly behind its decision to appoint Kim Baird, a registered industry lobbyist with ties to Kinder Morgan, to a review panel for the Trans Mountain expansion.
After being cleared of wrongdoing in one lobbying investigation, new details have emerged that Jean Charest met with members of a federal panel reviewing a pipeline that TransCanada paid him to boost.
A plastic bucket and a large tank that were meant to simulate the Vancouver coast could soon become part of a new legal challenge against a major pipeline expansion project.
Weary Liberals limped into June after a bruising stretch. The resignation of Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo and a climb-down on how to handle electoral reform capped off the week.