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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

Punish success. Reward failure. Isn’t that what state ownership is for?

Let’s connect three data points that don’t quite fit together seamlessly but which, if the trend they seem to depict is...

Ottawa

Asset management

Is the government really going to sell the CBC, VIA?

Ottawa

Something’s happening to my cell phone. I keep getting an Ekos.

Frank Graves, president of Ekos, sent this note on what ITQ readers will already know is a fairly poll-intensive day. Graves...

Ottawa

"In that regard, let me jog your memory"

Angela Merkel, who does not like giving interviews, grants one to Der Spiegel . The results are, in a very low-key way, comically...

Ottawa

Government releases its innovation strategy

No, not ours. Australia ’s. I don’t want anyone to fall into a sort of reflexive jealousy here. It’s about time an Australian...

Ottawa

A decisive, patriotic Canadian, able to deal with tough economic times

By a hefty margin, that’s how Canadians outside Quebec seem to view Stephen Harper , at least in comparison to Michael...

Ottawa

Preston Manning on science, competitiveness and innovation

The Reform party’s founding leader gave a lunch speech at a Public Policy Forum event on Wednesday. Everybody was talking about...

Ottawa

And I know Sweden, Finland, Israel, Japan, India and China thank you for it

"’We resolved that the term `competitiveness,’ the term `productivity’ and the term `innovation’ was never going to appear in...

Ottawa

Hey look

New Wells column , in which I give the Globe a little tough love.

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The old grey Globe she ain’t what she used to be

Globe publisher Philip Crawley announced this week that editor Ed Greenspon had moved on to ‘new challenges’

Paul Wells

Punish success. Reward failure. Isn’t that what state ownership is for?

Asset management

Something’s happening to my cell phone. I keep getting an Ekos.

"In that regard, let me jog your memory"

Government releases its innovation strategy

A decisive, patriotic Canadian, able to deal with tough economic times

Preston Manning on science, competitiveness and innovation

And I know Sweden, Finland, Israel, Japan, India and China thank you for it

Hey look

The old grey Globe she ain’t what she used to be

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