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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

Dept. of novel arguments

Chris Selley noticed this one, from Rick Salutin’s column today: Actually, I’m struck by how the rest of the paragraph doesn’t...

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Maybe we’ll have have an election in... 2011

Harper acts as if he’ll be around for a while; the Liberals hope the hard choices ahead will grind him down

Ottawa

Afghanistan: Debate on demand

Colleague Coyne and I were in Halifax on Tuesday night debating this Afghanistan business. Our colleagues at CPAC have archived...

Ottawa

"The American court got it miserably wrong"

The New York Times upholds the quaint notion that the protection of law should be extended even to the innocent, in this case a...

Ottawa

Coyne v. Wells: Tuesday night

Andrew and I are in Halifax tonight to debate Canada’s Afghanistan deployment with a sterling roster of guests. We’ll see you at...

Ottawa

By-elections

It doesn’t help to parse these things too closely, although Brian Topp remains a champion on that front. By-elections could hardly...

Ottawa

Hey look: the (far) East wants in

Many of you seem already to have found my column from this week’s print edition , in which I patiently explain the strategy behind...

Ottawa

Have a lovely convention, Premier

Wildrose Alliance party has captured nearly all of a precipitous Progressive Conservative decline in Alberta, new poll...

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Why Harper is heading to Asia

A central tenet of Harper’s political strategy is if the other guy is talking about something, you should take away his bragging rights

Ottawa

Write if you get work

Alexander Norris, former Montreal Gazette reporter, wins a seat on Montreal city council.

Paul Wells

Dept. of novel arguments

Maybe we’ll have have an election in... 2011

Afghanistan: Debate on demand

"The American court got it miserably wrong"

Coyne v. Wells: Tuesday night

By-elections

Hey look: the (far) East wants in

Have a lovely convention, Premier

Why Harper is heading to Asia

Write if you get work

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