Majority rules: Back to work
A Harper majority will face tough challenges, and Quebec will still be front and centre
Paul Wells
Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or something else.
Your very large team of doctors will see you now
This commencement address by Atul Gawande, the practicing physician who writes about medicine for The New Yorker , has been...
British Columbia: Now with less tax and more tax
Paul Wells on British Columbia’s tax cut that isn’t
The power to appoint judges doesn’t mean Harper will get what he wants
On Insite, the cruellest blow against the feds’ case came from one of the PM’s own appointees
Won’t you chat with me
I’ll be back here at 3 p.m. Eastern time to do a live-chat about the election, the aftermath of the election, and other things...
Hey look: Maybe it’s just a bunch of stuff that happened
From the magazine, the last chapter of our election saga (SPOILER: Conservatives win). This installment features more analysis...
The untold story of the 2011 election: Chapter 6
The morning after, the years ahead
The untold story of the 2011 election: Chapter 5
Years of quiet preparation in Quebec begin paying off for the NDP
Hey look: In which the appeal to Quebecers’ sovereigntist instincts doesn’t work
From the magazine, Chapter 4 of our account of the 2011 campaign. Featuring such other dispatches from the Dept. of It Looked Like...
The untold story of the 2011 election: Chapter 4
The election would soon turn on two key speeches: one by Ignatieff, one by Duceppe