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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

MUSIC: Passion Dance

On different nights, the John Coltrane Quartet’s various members would take turns taking the lead, or so it seems to me on...

Ottawa

Koalitionen

Would it surprise you to learn that Der Spiegel ’s superb English-language website has the best coverage of the German elections?...

Ottawa

Props for Pops

They don’t give you an instruction manual when they give you a political column, so in 1997 when The Gazette gave me one (it was...

Ottawa

New Liberal ads!

Courtesy of guess who . Ronald Reagan could have warned the Liberals this would happen.

Ottawa

This is who actually won in Calgary

My short article in last week’s issue, arguing that Los Angeles architect Zoltan Pali should build the Cantos Music Foundation’s...

Ottawa

Now there’s an idea

Introducing the Liberal Party of Canada’s new candidate in Outremont:

Ottawa

Hey look: Elect Ignatieff to find out what his plan is

From this week’s print edition, a column in which I attend Michael Ignatieff’s big Toronto speech on the economy, take notes, and...

Ottawa

WHAT a surprise

A long letter in La Presse finds hints of "Duplessisme" in Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal party’s Quebec wing. "We deserve better,"...

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Michael Ignatieff’s weighty autumn

Somewhere in the office of the leader of the Opposition, I feel sure, there is a DVD of season three of The West Wing

Ottawa

The Coderre-Ignatieff two-step

Martin Cauchon has been offered the Liberal nomination in Jeanne-Le Ber , which was contested in 2008 (I was at the nomination...

Paul Wells

MUSIC: Passion Dance

Koalitionen

Props for Pops

New Liberal ads!

This is who actually won in Calgary

Now there’s an idea

Hey look: Elect Ignatieff to find out what his plan is

WHAT a surprise

Michael Ignatieff’s weighty autumn

The Coderre-Ignatieff two-step

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