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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

Hey look: We stand on guard for something or other

This week’s column from the print edition is really long, and it’s about Arctic sovereignty, and on the whole it may prevent me...

Ottawa

At last, something to hope for

I’ve heard nothing about this , but on the face of it, it may just turn out to be the greatest movie of the last thirty years.

Ottawa

And now, from the Dept. of Really Hard Press Releases to Write...

From the Inkless emailbox.... Statement by New Democrat leader Jack Layton the appointment of Premier Gary Doer of Manitoba to...

Canada

The cold truth

Why Harper’s tough talk on Arctic sovereignty is empty

Ottawa

"We are now protecting the good-faith torturers"

Dahlia Lithwick skewers the tortured logic, so to speak, in U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to investigate only those...

Ottawa

Gilles Duceppe

Not retiring .

Ottawa

It’s just like "Yes We Can," except whingy

Prominent Canadians explain "why we need The Walrus ." The previous option of offering it for sale to the public having paid off...

Ottawa

Afghanistan: Surge and surge again

Tony Cordesman is speaking for himself and, perhaps, getting a bit ahead of things when he declares in this morning’s Times of...

Ottawa

Hey, look: Summer grab-bag column

In which your correspondent wanders cheerfully through three barely-connected topics and, to judge from the comment...

Ottawa

Leaky facets

My outrage at the "senior government official" who’s been leaking public-service costings that seem designed to embarrass the...

Paul Wells

Hey look: We stand on guard for something or other

At last, something to hope for

And now, from the Dept. of Really Hard Press Releases to Write...

The cold truth

"We are now protecting the good-faith torturers"

Gilles Duceppe

It’s just like "Yes We Can," except whingy

Afghanistan: Surge and surge again

Hey, look: Summer grab-bag column

Leaky facets

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