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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.

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The Globe and Blatchford

In 20 years in journalism I have never seen anything resembling the systematic and sustained repudiation to which Christie...

Ottawa

The Dude abides

Alex Ross’s New Yorker profile of LA Philharmonic conducting wunderkind Gustavo Dudamel is up . I’ve seen Dudamel conduct...

Ottawa

O’bomber

Paul Wells: Supporters of Barack Obama—and Stephane Dion—just weren’t listening

Ottawa

They’re heeeere!

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Excerpt from the Prime Minister’s Shanghai speech

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Life outside the accuracy wire

Our former Colleague Kady spots — and corrects — a most interesting correction .

Ottawa

Hey look: re-engineering Quebec, or at least himself

From the magazine, this week’s column , the fruit of a few days spent following Jean Charest in Quebec City. I intended the last...

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Well-lit Layton vs. the Force Amplifiers

In the penultimate installment of his very useful contribution to the public memory of the pivotal 2008 coalition crisis/ missed...

Ottawa

You mean not every slow week is a Munich capitulation? Damn.

I don’t know what happened to David Frum a couple of years ago, although I suspect that gig he had at the White House had...

Ottawa

MUSIC: Rational enquirer

On his New Yorker blog, the magazine’s music critic Alex Ross singles out "Ten Exceptional Recordings" of 2009. One, sharing the...

Paul Wells

The Globe and Blatchford

The Dude abides

O’bomber

They’re heeeere!

Excerpt from the Prime Minister’s Shanghai speech

Life outside the accuracy wire

Hey look: re-engineering Quebec, or at least himself

Well-lit Layton vs. the Force Amplifiers

You mean not every slow week is a Munich capitulation? Damn.

MUSIC: Rational enquirer

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