Paul Wells

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...

"There has been so much talk about these negative ads that the conservatives are apparently going to unleash. Any day...

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...

Paul Wells on why those Conservative attack ads just might work

My print column this week will perhaps not draw the big crowds I get when I make fun of a politician chosen at random, but if...

The reports say Canada isn’t innovating. That’s hurting our productivity and prosperity—and creating fat and lazy businesses.

Now that I’ve slept on it, the most interesting question about the Conservative "Just Visiting" ad (posted somewhere down below)...

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...

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...

Harper wants you to think he’s a friend to artists, Ignatieff that he’s a manly man