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.

On Campus

Where you need to go in Ottawa for a good idea

How to attract human capital and find a place for science students in industry

Ottawa

Suddenly a new national institution

Calgary’s National Music Centre project just received $25m from Alberta and the federal government

Ottawa

Lawrence Cannon: consistent

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Ottawa

Insecure counsel

WELLS: Harper’s ambivalence about the UN cost Canada its shot at the big table—but his ambivalence has a constituency

Ottawa

Hey look: Ignatieff hugs the new centre

From the latest (actually unusually good in many ways) print edition, my column about shrinking policy ambition and its uses. It...

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Ignatieff’s shrinking ambition

WELLS: The Liberals find a hope of beating Harper. But will it work?

Culture

Enough talk about Marc-André Hamelin’s fast fingers

“I wish this stuff would be easier”

Ottawa

Here’s a crazy thought, Chantal

No political commentator working in Canada today is read with as much anticipation as Chantal Hébert. She’s obviously the class...

Ottawa

Hey look: on advising and submitting to arbitrary measures

From the magazine, my column on a new book that comes at the October Crisis from an odd angle.

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A fresh take on Trudeau’s act

The October crisis

Paul Wells

Where you need to go in Ottawa for a good idea

Suddenly a new national institution

Lawrence Cannon: consistent

Insecure counsel

Hey look: Ignatieff hugs the new centre

Ignatieff’s shrinking ambition

Enough talk about Marc-André Hamelin’s fast fingers

Here’s a crazy thought, Chantal

Hey look: on advising and submitting to arbitrary measures

A fresh take on Trudeau’s act

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