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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

Walks in the snow: there was one moderating influence left, but he won’t be troubling us any further, Guy

Release Date: May 7, 2009 For immediate release PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF KEVIN LYNCH, CLERK OF THE...

Ottawa

Another job for Ari and Mike

"So yesterday, Zardari did what any sensible world leader would do in a time of crisis: He went to see Wolf Blitzer ."

Ottawa

Down

Le Monde has started to get serious about online info-graphics. Here they trace Nicolas Sarkozy’s two years in power . Three more...

Ottawa

Harper in Prague: Clearly he’s up to something.

And indeed it is so. He is launching formal negotiations toward a Canada-EU free trade deal. But it’s more than that. Indeed, as...

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It’s far too modest to call this a free trade deal

Today Harper is in Prague to launch negotiations with the European Union. And critics are lining up.

Ottawa

MUSIC: Hope

The 40th edition of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival unfolded in a manner that would not have shocked audiences at the...

Ottawa

White paper vs. blank cheque

From The Torch blog, a comparison of the Defence White Paper from Australia’s new Labour government, and last year’s Canada First...

Ottawa

Unsure where to fit this on the all-important Starbucks-to-Tims spectrum

I return from New Orleans, about which more later, to discover that there has been almost no coverage of the Prime Minister’s...

Ottawa

Minister Kent

Smooth .

Ottawa

Ignatieff: Fantasia on a theme of anonymity

— Globe and Mail , today A third senior Liberal, leaning on his walker because he’s quite senior, said Ignatieff sometimes sings...

Paul Wells

Walks in the snow: there was one moderating influence left, but he won’t be troubling us any further, Guy

Another job for Ari and Mike

Down

Harper in Prague: Clearly he’s up to something.

It’s far too modest to call this a free trade deal

MUSIC: Hope

White paper vs. blank cheque

Unsure where to fit this on the all-important Starbucks-to-Tims spectrum

Minister Kent

Ignatieff: Fantasia on a theme of anonymity

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