Hey, look: the deeper meaning of Raitt
New Wells column , in which I try to provide the valuable "context" that will help you see this Lisa Raitt thing in an entirely...
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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.
The real shame in the Raitt scandal
Unstable minority governments mean that ministers are always jockeying for position
Dept. of massively high-powered hindsight
I’m entirely willing to believe interested specialists knew about this long ago, but I have only now discovered that Perimeter...
Off probation
Paul Wells predicts Michael Ignatieff’s next move
Because recruiting washed-up separatists always works so well
Harper hires former Bloc insider
The golden age of Canadian technical know-how
"That’s right, children. Not only does our quiet country have plans to make its own jet fighter aircraft — we’ve built an atomic...
Baird’s critics should...
Let’s be clear here. If I hear John Baird is being criticized somewhere, I usually rush to join in. It’s fun and healthy and...
Eye on the ball
This thing with the tape is all very entertaining, but I find myself kind of brooding over this bit: Fair enough. You win on this...
The last two paragraphs of Norman Webster’s May 29 Montreal Gazette column
Link . Norman Webster was, of course, editor of the Globe until 1989, and then editor of The Gazette until 1993. I wonder what he...
It’s all coming back to me now
Rush Limbaugh is Meat Loaf.