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

"Canada can’t muzzle me"

George Galloway takes to the infandous internets to fustigate his Ottawa tormentors. Sunday update: Lorne Gunter doesn’t want...

Ottawa

"What an awful mess"

Paul Krugman really doesn’t like the Obama administration’s latest plan for fixing the banks. I mean, really really . This...

Ottawa

MacKay and NATO: The Atlantic gateway only goes one way

Not sure we should take the latest NATO secretary-general story as more definitive than the last five, but anyway: Reuters says...

Ottawa

InfandousWatch: Freedom of speech includes the freedom to use long words

Jason Kenney’s comms director sets the world afire with his vocabulary.

Ottawa

Well, this is certainly stimulating

Congressional Budget Office projects that Barack Obama’s budget understates deficits by an aggregate of $2.3 trillion over the...

Ottawa

MUSIC: Manny Ax doesn’t mind if you clap

The formidable pianist wonders why audiences can applaud at the opera but not between movements (or in the middle of the action)...

Ottawa

"Conservative heavyweights squabble over what went wrong in Quebec"

Whatever it was, it was pretty bad, because by the time it was over, Christian Paradis and Leo Housakos were Conservative...

Ottawa

Charles Krauthammer is making a lot of sense

Now there’s a sentence I don’t often write. See for yourself . He puts the AIG bonuses into perspective – far too late, one...

Ottawa

It’s...it’s....as though David Dodge predicted it!...

Quebec budget announces a one-point hike in the provincial sales tax for 2011. That’ll raise almost enough money to make up for...

Ottawa

FWIW (ii)

David Dodge’s c.v. (emphases added):

Paul Wells

"Canada can’t muzzle me"

"What an awful mess"

MacKay and NATO: The Atlantic gateway only goes one way

InfandousWatch: Freedom of speech includes the freedom to use long words

Well, this is certainly stimulating

MUSIC: Manny Ax doesn’t mind if you clap

"Conservative heavyweights squabble over what went wrong in Quebec"

Charles Krauthammer is making a lot of sense

It’s...it’s....as though David Dodge predicted it!...

FWIW (ii)

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