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

Cut and won

The last time I was in Edmonton covering a provincial budget, Treasurer Stockwell Day was implementing a single-rate personal...

Ottawa

Rights and Democracy: Where to begin, where to begin

David Matas’ letter, posted in its entirety below, gives such free play to misdirection, tautology and double-standard that one...

Ottawa

Rights and Democracy: "There is no foundation for a debate over process"

Rights and Democracy board member David Matas was good enough to send along this new text about the dispute at the Montreal...

Ottawa

Hey look: Prentice in Calgary

Many of you have already found my column from the print edition , in which I try to make sense of Jim Prentice’s Calgary...

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Why Prentice took on the oil sands

Jim Prentice preaches responsibility regarding the oil sands

Ottawa

Rights and Democracy: Transparency and Accountability

From last October, the then-president of Rights and Democracy, Rémy Beauregard, speaks to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee...

Ottawa

Rights and Democracy: Let’s go to the video

Featuring Aurel Braun complaining about Ed Broadbent

Ottawa

Rights and Democracy: Did the right hand know what the right hand was doing?

In the Star , Haroon Siddiqui provides the latest update on the surreal weirdness convulsing the Montreal organization Rights and...

Ottawa

Train within nowhere

Peter Shawn Taylor has found a transit project so questionable I actually think even I wouldn’t support it: a light rail transit...

Ottawa

Hey look: Rights and Democracy and the bigger picture (featuring one of my trademark Harper-is-a-brain-in-a-jar bits)

From the print edition, this week’s column offers what may — may — be a coda to all this Rights and Democracy foofaraw (see...

Paul Wells

Cut and won

Rights and Democracy: Where to begin, where to begin

Rights and Democracy: "There is no foundation for a debate over process"

Hey look: Prentice in Calgary

Why Prentice took on the oil sands

Rights and Democracy: Transparency and Accountability

Rights and Democracy: Let’s go to the video

Rights and Democracy: Did the right hand know what the right hand was doing?

Train within nowhere

Hey look: Rights and Democracy and the bigger picture (featuring one of my trademark Harper-is-a-brain-in-a-jar bits)

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