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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.

Ottawa

Hey look: Wells on Israel. Don’t get used to it.

I’ve long felt the world was overstocked with cheap certainty regarding Israel and the Middle East, and have almost never been...

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Why Israel has a friend in Harper

WELLS: Canada has been silent on the debate over Israel’s raid of a Gaza-bound ship

Ottawa

Senator Pitfield

That’s him over the Queen’s shoulder, when he was Clerk of the Privy Council, at the signing of the Constitution...

Ottawa

Oh, Mr. Munk....

— Peter Munk, letter to the editor of Maclean’s , June 22, 09 — Statement by the Hon. Jeffrey J. Oliphant, today It’s sad that...

Ottawa

Hey look: Because it had been a few weeks since one of these Harper’s-brain pieces

From the print edition (which looks marvelous ; really, darling, have you had work done?), this week’s column , in which assorted...

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What Harper’s thinking

WELLS: Some insiders are talking majority. So why is the Prime Minister in no rush to call an election?

Ottawa

Music: Swing shift

Sometimes I think my ears take so much music out of the world that it’s only fair to put some back. That’s why I’m on the...

Ottawa

Afghanistan: "This is a bleeding ulcer right now"

Gen. Stanley McCrystal checks up on the progress in Marja and discovers, in extraordinarily frank language, that there hasn’t been...

Ottawa

Architecture: Buildings that will be and might have been

Paul Wells on Rem Koolhaas’ winning design and which buildings got the shaft

Ottawa

Hey look: Just on the off-chance that luring extraordinary scientists is a GOOD idea...

From the print edition, my column on the Canada Excellence Research Chairs, in which I acknowledge only in passing the concerns...

Paul Wells

Hey look: Wells on Israel. Don’t get used to it.

Why Israel has a friend in Harper

Senator Pitfield

Oh, Mr. Munk....

Hey look: Because it had been a few weeks since one of these Harper’s-brain pieces

What Harper’s thinking

Music: Swing shift

Afghanistan: "This is a bleeding ulcer right now"

Architecture: Buildings that will be and might have been

Hey look: Just on the off-chance that luring extraordinary scientists is a GOOD idea...

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