Hey look: Majority vs. majority
I don’t know, when the Prime Minister of Canada tells everyone a hundred times how he anticipates the outcome of the next...
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’s election plan, in plain view
WELLS: Harper relishes the thought that the coalition crisis of 2008 will be repeated
Hey look: My month at the edge of the universe
For 17 days that began in late June and ended in late July, I was at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in...
Mind-bending mysteries at the Perimeter Institute
What the big thinkers know, what they’re trying to learn, and how close we may be to a genuine revolution
Mind-bending mysteries at the Perimeter Institute
What the big thinkers know, what they’re trying to learn, and how close we may be to a genuine revolution
Fixing parliament
There is a flurry of activity this autumn around the general topic of improving procedure in Parliament so decorum will also...
Greetings, sir or madam! Here is your new hockey arena! You’re welcome!
WELLS: A proper de-codification of the Prime Minister’s latest pronouncements
"Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s"
In an article that is making some waves in the U.S., Dinesh D’Souza explains that Barack Obama’s policy choices result from the...
Afghanistan: Turning the corner
The newish Canadian military commander in Kandahar promises "massive activities" for the autumn. His predecessor promised...
Not with a bang, but with (an opponent’s) whimper
This excerpt from Tony Blair’s memoirs, quoted in the New Yorker review of that book, stood out for obvious reasons: Sound...