Magazine cover of the week
The cover line translates strictly as, "But what is happening to him?" and perhaps more loosely as, "So what’s his problem?" 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.
Mme Krieber regrets
The wife of Stéphane Dion posts, and then removes , a Facebook update that won’t get her the best seat at the next Liberal...
Spot the flu line celebrity
From a colleague at our Maclean’s Toronto headquarters: “[Another colleague] just called from her place in the flu line at Metro...
From the magazine: The Halifax panel discussion on Afghanistan
CPAC’s second In Conversation With Maclean’s town hall, colloquially known as Coyne and Wells On the Road, took place in Halifax...
And tonight Mr. Cosh is topping the bill
If you haven’t noticed yet, please give a warm welcome to Colby Cosh of Edmonton, who’s our latest addition to the blogging...
Hey look: on the insistent demands of memory
From the print edition, my column on the rather extraordinary efforts of Poland’s government, around the world, to make sure...
Sorry, Poland
Under the Nazis Poland became a prison where the Germans created their ‘largest camps of annihilation’
The bucket defence: the mystery solved
And now a confession. Like a million years ago, when This Week With George Stephanopolopili was still This Week With David...
A president of Europe who lived in Canada for 44 years?
You’ll be shocked to learn that the European Union is mired in a cumbersome process. This time what they’re trying to do is to...
On the similarities between torturees’ testimony and torturers’ testimony
As part of the bucket defence* they are deploying in response to Richard Colvin’s testimony on allegations of torture routinely...