"I’m not interested in having multiple debates"
Stephen Harper backs out of proposed one-on-one debate with Michael Ignatieff
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.
Harper on process vs. policy
Listening to Stephen Harper repeat his warnings against a rebel coalition today, I recalled a passage from one of the canonical...
Video from Ignatieff’s campaign
When I wasn’t tweeting, blogging, preparing my article for the next issue or arming for battle with Colleague Coyne, I shot some...
Duelling War Rooms: Ignatieff’s RESP thing redux
The Conservative and Liberal war rooms both signed up for a second round of the debate that kicked off below . Here they go...
Duelling war rooms: the Ignatieff RESP plank
The Conservatives’ response, and the Liberals’ rebuttal
Ignatieff starts filling in the blanks
Of the dozen questions the Liberal leader faced on Monday, only one was about a coalition
Trudeau vs. Kenney on ’barbaric cultural practices’
Maclean’s Archives, March 2011: Trudeau lost the latest battle with Kenney, but there will be plenty more to come
Let the games begin
Paul Wells on how a snoozer budget became the pretext for an election frenzy
2012 came a little early this year
So apparently we’re going to have an election. Paul Wells has your primer.
Hey look: Election speculation, 2020 edition
From the magazine, my latest column proposes Jason Kenney and Justin Trudeau as the future of Canadian politics.