Rights and Democracy: Friends in high places, or not
The foreign-affairs committee runs out of patience . I wasn’t going to write about what follows, but what the heck. Since I am now...
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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.
"What others can aspire to"
Good news can be important too. "There are many success stories," OECD Secretary-General Angel Guerra said upon the release of the...
Rights and Democracy: an odd cameo appearance
Remember the great old days when the entire cast of Homicide: Life on the Streets would suddenly appear, in character, in an...
Hanging up the gloves
WELLS: Danny Williams’s accomplishments and his resentments were two sides of a coin
Hey look: the minister will see you now
From the magazine, appearing suddenly on our website while I wasn’t looking, my profile of Jason Kenney . The comment boards will...
Jason Kenney: Harper’s secret weapon
How he’s reinventing the Conservative party
Ideas you can take from the bank
"One rarely has to wait long at Perimeter before somebody comes along with a gift of money," I wrote in September in my account of...
Rights and Democracy: We have a date
The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee met in camera yesterday, and when the members emerged, this appeared in the minutes : That...
You don’t protect freedom by confiscating it
Scanners and pat-downs are humiliating and counterproductive
Rights and Democracy: Well thank goodness we have a take-charge minister
The very last exchange in Tuesday’s Question Period. There are a lot of ways to read Minister Cannon’s remarks (and therefore a...