While we await the Home Chamber Music Festival Tax Credit...
...there’s strong evidence the Home Renovation Tax Credit introduced in the January budget is having its intended effect. Why, in...
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.
Hey look: A university system that could beat the world
A few of us from Maclean’s sat down recently, via videoconference, with the presidents of Canada’s five largest universities for...
Can higher ed reach higher?
Canada’s leading universities want to, but big dreams call for big changes
Can higher ed reach higher?
Canada’s leading universities want to, writes Paul Wells, but big dreams call for big changes
Liesl! Pack little Farahilde and the cellos. We’re going to Ottawa!
Here in the string quartet section of macleans.ca, I know you’ll be as delighted as I am to learn that the federal government’s...
On the uses of absence
Michael Ignatieff’s absence from the headlines is getting noticed . Certainly (he said with a sigh) it’s unsurprising; at a dinner...
Hey look: a summer movie, with swearing
From the print edition, my article about the new British movie In The Loop . With lots and lots and lots of warning about salty...
And now . . . a loopy Iraq war movie
In a profane new British comedy, the hawks aren’t bogged down with such things as truth
The Republicans’ Obama experiment
Paul Wells on the latest attempt to torpedo Obama’s health-care reform
MUSIC: Drum solo of the day
From a New York band called Mostly Other People Do The Killing. A satire on jazz, played by reasonably good jazz musicians. Things...