Stephen Harper: the brain in a jar
Paul Wells’ analyses of Harper’s governing style in 2010
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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.
Music: a moment and its aftermath
In January Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra played one of its regular season concerts at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian...
Inkless in review: the year in big comment-board fights
Six posts on this blog this year drew more than 300 comments. In March I returned from Michael Ignatieff’s big Montreal thinkers’...
Larry Smith: Mon nom est québécois
When Chantal Hébert predicted this whole Larry Smith business in an eerily well-informed Dec. 3 column , I took a moment to mourn...
Harper’s surprising abortion vote
Why did the PM vote against one of his own MPs?
Be nice or else
A new Hungarian media law will hand out fines for unbalanced news coverage
Let me spell it out for you
It’s good of the PMO to send reporters a full transcript of Stephen Harper’s interview with a crew from TVA that included at least...
Reinforcements
I finally got around to reading Patrick Deane’s installation address as President of McMaster University , which came highly...
Overrated in 2010: the list
PAUL WELLs on Gilles Duceppe, the long-form census, and ’Inception’