Hey look: In which a list is made, with funny remarks interspersed
For my column in the print edition this week, comedy hijinx galore on the general theme of "what do you do after you eliminate 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.
If we’re cutting useless things in Ottawa
WELLS: It’s time to fire half the cabinet
Music: The orchestra takes a breather
Faithful readers, if any, have perhaps been wondering since last autumn what on earth the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony sounded like...
Stephen Harper engages in a little cowardly vandalism
If you click the link where Munir Sheikh’s resignation letter was posted only last night (for instance, the link in Aaron’s post...
Inception: It’s like I dreamed about a guy who didn’t know what dreams are like
The big problem with Inception is that it’s a 21st-century heist movie. I’m going to try to get through this without spoilers, but...
Le memory hole de Champlain
WELLS: Have we rewritten history or just not bothered to learn it?
When Conservatives form coalitions
From John F. Burns, the Canadian-born dean of New York Times foreign correspondents: David Cameron Carves an Identity as Slasher...
Rights and Democracy: We now return to our regularly-scheduled delay
And now an update for followers of this blog’s relentless chronicling of the Deloitte audit at Rights and Democracy. (A...
Music: It’s like Bluesfest but with batons
A few blocks west of Parliament Hill in the nation’s capital is a mysterious site called LeBreton Flats, which Ottawa’s city...
One entirely optional question about the census
Now that Maxime Bernier has spent a week as the Harper government’s point man on the hotly-contested census changes, does anyone...