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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

Pakistan: Drone attacks and a clumsy army, or, This is no way to run a counterinsurgency

Let’s connect two dots in ways I haven’t seen connected, although the link is so clear it must have been made before. First, in...
Ottawa

On negative ads

Here’s the first NDP ad of the 2008 campaign in Quebec. Note the line "It’s a pro-war vote that makes us slaves of the oilmen" and...
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Hey, look

I think it’s only fair to warn you that when the next issue of Maclean’s comes out, my column will leave you wishing I’d written...
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Guess that’s a No then

On the BC electoral reform referendum, it wasn’t even close . BC-STV didn’t carry a voter majority in almost any riding, and it...
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