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

Notes for a column, never written

( I have some less-flippant things to say about this seal heart business, but first, this: — pw) Michaëlle Jean fits in. It’s...

Ottawa

Made in Canada, depending on your definitions of "made" or "Canada"

— Canadian Press, 2006 — "

Ottawa

Montreal gets its very own Toronto-style concert hall

This morning in Montreal, Jean Charest unveiled the design for the new concert hall for the Orchestre symphonique de...

Ottawa

Actually, don’t bother firing Jim Flaherty

It’s pointless, writes PAUL WELLS, for a number of reasons

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MUSIC: Treasure troves

Two astonishing online resources for fans and students of music. First, the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition...

Ottawa

Baikonur!

Perhaps I haven’t been paying attention. But I was amazed to hear tonight on the news that Robert Thirsk, who’s scheduled to lift...

Ottawa

En matière de langues officielles

So far in the last 10 minutes, the Office of the Leader of the Opposition has sent me six different versions of the same press...

Ottawa

Tweeting the firing of Ed Greenspon

Since it "doesn’t matter" which platform readers use to get their information, let’s reimaginationate yesterday’s already-historic...

Ottawa

At the Globe, content is platform-agnostic

No, nobody actually said that, but that’s clearly one jargon-laden inference a reader can draw from all the other jargon in this...

Ottawa

The new new poll: The ads worked! Or, Ipsos Factos

Wipe that smirk off your face, Wells. The rest of Canada is clearly deeply concerned by French French and Algonquin Park envy. The...

Paul Wells

Notes for a column, never written

Made in Canada, depending on your definitions of "made" or "Canada"

Montreal gets its very own Toronto-style concert hall

Actually, don’t bother firing Jim Flaherty

MUSIC: Treasure troves

Baikonur!

En matière de langues officielles

Tweeting the firing of Ed Greenspon

At the Globe, content is platform-agnostic

The new new poll: The ads worked! Or, Ipsos Factos

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