Rights and Democracy: So everyone agrees! And there’s no problem! Right?
Over at the CBC, their Kady O’Malley points out that Parliamentary privilege being what it is — powerful — "none" of the...
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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.
Rights and Democracy: The twilight struggle of transparency and accountability
On Nov. 4 I wrote to Stéphane Bourgon, the new communications director for Rights and Democracy, quoting his own words back to...
Obama’s hard war
A Washington Post article is only one of many lately to chronicle the extraordinary violence with which the Obama administration...
Hey look: Slow down, Quebec! We can barely keep up with this stuff!
I would never have thought to chronicle recent developments in Quebec-based corruption, as I do in my column in this week’s print...
What does it take to make Parliament sad?
Envelopes stuffed with cash, more nastiness and name-calling—and silence from the House?
Rira bien...
We are profoundly saddened to read today’s La Presse editorial . [UPDATE: Okay, it was yesterday’s. Rira bien qui rira un peu en...
Adventures in polling
Here’s a zany suggestion: if you want to know what people think about coalitions, ask them
Music: No, Mother, do not weep
It does no disservice to Henryk Gorecki’s other work to call the Polish composer, who died today at 76, one of the 20th century’s...
Hey look: A homegrown brain gain
From our university rankings issue, the hands-down winner for least-commented article: my column describes the excellent work the...
One school’s native intelligence
Almost 700 Aboriginal students are enrolled at the University of Victoria