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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 terrifying headlines

" Presidency of the EU: The New Frontrunner is Belgian "

Ottawa

History’s hinges

Roger Cohen, in the New York Times , wonders whether Tehran this year, or Tiananmen 20 years ago, could have worked out the way a...

Ottawa

Moonlighting Wells; and un nouveau bloggeur

If Monday’s slow at work, feel free to check out two outside projects from your Inkless servant. In this month’s Literary Review...

Ottawa

Hey look: Coyne v. Wells on our broken Afghanistan

From the print edition, this magazine’s national editor and its senior columnist debate the future of Canada in Afghanistan . All...

Ottawa

Weekend reading: George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

This essay had a huge influence on my thinking when I first read it as an undergraduate. In it, Orwell uses, and admits to...

Ottawa

Peter Donolo and the Curse of the Mummy’s Hand

The Liberal Party of Canada has spent six years faithfully adopting the method of a Hollywood Egyptian emperor

Ottawa

Hey look: And what if Toronto became a cultural suburb of Kitchener?

From the magazine, my profile of Edwin Outwater , the very impressive musical director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He’ll...

Culture

Stethoscopes at the symphony

Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry has written a piece based on each musician’s heartbeat

Ottawa

Eleven candles

We gathered a year ago at a pub off King St. that Jake Richler used to like, though it never did much for me. This wasn’t the...

Ottawa

CBC’s stand-up act

Two hours of frantic kineticism is exhausting, but the good outweighs the bad in the relaunch of CBC news

Paul Wells

Dept. of terrifying headlines

History’s hinges

Moonlighting Wells; and un nouveau bloggeur

Hey look: Coyne v. Wells on our broken Afghanistan

Weekend reading: George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

Peter Donolo and the Curse of the Mummy’s Hand

Hey look: And what if Toronto became a cultural suburb of Kitchener?

Stethoscopes at the symphony

Eleven candles

CBC’s stand-up act

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