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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.

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CBC’s At Issue: Special voice appropriation edition

Andrew Coyne is away (but not for long!), and the news has given his replacement pundit the blues:

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Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan IV: Paper trail

The White House releases the White Paper that guided today’s Af-Pak strategy announcements. Canada’s foreign minister responds :...

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Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan III: "No."

More from Holbrooke’s press briefing: Q Can I ask about the question of corruption with regard to Pakistan? The President alluded...

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Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan II: "A cancer eating away at the country"

From the press briefing that Luiza posted this morning, Richard Holbrooke on corruption: Reading this I was reminded of something...

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Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan I: Parsing the President’s speech

Paul Wells: The new strategy looks different in several key ways

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Harper in the world

In our latest print edition, our man John Geddes explains the Prime Minister’s newfound fondness for going on the road to spread...

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"We’re already well through the screwing-up phase of our operation"

On a trip to Afghanistan, David Brooks opts, on the whole, for optimism . Sarah Chayes, who’s been there longer, is less cheered...

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Shovel and/or baton-ready

Jack Diamond built a very good opera house in Toronto (pictured here), and now his firm has been chosen to build the Montreal...

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Snubwatch II: Obama’s stealth op-ed

We are shocked to discover that Barack Obama actually did have an op-ed in a Canadian newspaper (well, it was the National Post )...

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Lists! O the humanity...

We are saddened to report that the Harper Prime Minister’s Office, apparently with too much time on its hands, has taken to...

Paul Wells

CBC’s At Issue: Special voice appropriation edition

Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan IV: Paper trail

Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan III: "No."

Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan II: "A cancer eating away at the country"

Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan I: Parsing the President’s speech

Harper in the world

"We’re already well through the screwing-up phase of our operation"

Shovel and/or baton-ready

Snubwatch II: Obama’s stealth op-ed

Lists! O the humanity...

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