The farewell
At Michael Jackson’s memorial service, writes Paul Wells, anything less than excess wouldn’t do
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.
Second thoughts
In this old column I made extravagant fun of the notion that the Harper government was overly beholden to an assortment of...
Old media play
The Wall Street Journal prepares to launch an arts and culture section . This, while most other papers are hacking their arts...
You think it’s easy to make priorities?
Paul Wells on the Ablonczy/Pride fiasco and the bizarre tale of Marquee Tourism Events
There are all sorts of second acts in American lives
Huffington Post hires deposed Washington Post blogger Dan Froomkin . Meanwhile the WashPost ’s Dana Milbank continues to defend...
Today in the no-spin zone: Sheila Copps and the burqa-wearing oppressed
— from a column in which Sheila Copps defends a sister whose work was rudely fact-checked
Alberta economic council has no Alberta economists
Via Stephen Gordon , a UofA economist is pretty steamed about a new "Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy," whose members are...
Sarah Palin pulls a Stronach
She will be better able to advance her ideas about politics by getting out of politics. I’m sure she hasn’t the faintest intention...