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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 "

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...

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...

CBC’s stand-up act

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