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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

"Serious conservative parties simply cannot shy away from values questions"

That piece of mine about social conservatism quotes from a 2003 Civitas speech by Stephen Harper. The only...

Ottawa

Hey look: It’s morning in Harper’s Canada

From the print edition, a longer and I suspect more controversial piece than you’d seen from me lately, connecting a bunch of dots...

Canada

Harper’s hard right turn

Social conservatism is on the rise in Ottawa, and across Canada

Ottawa

Maternal health: What does "no debate on abortion" mean?

Well, everyone was so chuffed after Question Period, because at last the government had got its message straight viz-a-viz the...

Ottawa

Maternal health: France

I’m going to be parsing the prime minister’s comments on this whole no-condoms-for-Africa thing in a few minutes, but...

Ottawa

The ministerial oral podectomy as a tool (ahem) of development assistance

In the House of Commons just now, Bev Oda moved swiftly to remove Lawrence Cannon’s foot from his mouth. A quick transcript:

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Quite an introduction

Between the sometimes-luminous opening ceremonies and the corny clichés of the closing show, Canada presented versions of itself the world had never seen

Ottawa