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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

Jim Prentice: Many meetings

The minister of the environment grants an interview to Policy Options magazine (link launches a .pdf). I was curious to see what...

Ottawa

MUSIC: Your tax dollars at play

The National Arts Centre Orchestra celebrates the NAC’s 40th anniversary by putting recordings of more than 150 performances from...

Ottawa

MUSIC: good for what ails you

I’m off to the Montreal Jazz Festival tonight. I covered the festival for 17 years in a row (!) but I haven’t attended it since...

Ottawa

How we spent our weekend

Special Michael Jackson commemorative issue . On newsstands (in the overprivileged central parts of the country, anyway) now. A...

Ottawa

Pitney vs. Milbank: Free controversy!

The guy from the Huffington Post gets the guy from the Washington Post all huffy, after Barack Obama called on Pitney to ask a...

Ottawa

Momentum and its discontents: The Harper/Ignatieff show

From the magazine, my story about how the leaders of the two largest parties Made Parliament Work For Canadians.

Canada

Harper’s next big chance

With Ignatieff cowed, the PM’s brain trust plans the next attack

Ottawa

Pakistan, where the cautionary tales of future counterinsurgency texts are being written today

-- "Taliban Losses No Sure Gains for Pakistanis," New York Times

Ottawa

This is huge

In a move that should be profoundly chastening to the current management of the Village Voice (The what? Precisely .), the paper...

Ottawa

Hey look: a challenge to the national imagination, just for a change

New Wells column , in which I (a) run 24 Sussex down; (b) call for its demolition; (c) address the inevitable rebuttal that this...

Paul Wells

Jim Prentice: Many meetings

MUSIC: Your tax dollars at play

MUSIC: good for what ails you

How we spent our weekend

Pitney vs. Milbank: Free controversy!

Momentum and its discontents: The Harper/Ignatieff show

Harper’s next big chance

Pakistan, where the cautionary tales of future counterinsurgency texts are being written today

This is huge

Hey look: a challenge to the national imagination, just for a change

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