And suddenly I was thinking of Linda Keen
— From Outliers , by Malcolm Gladwell
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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.
Note to colleagues calling to check a rumour
The rumour, which is about me going to work somewhere else, is not true. That is all. Thank you.
What happened yesterday?
Courtesy of Our Luiza, who’s on all the right email lists, here’s a transcript of the 29-minute briefing the White House press...
Carbon sequestration: the critics are raving!
Reports are indicating the leader of the free world and President Obama will announce an accord "to work together on clean energy...
Hope you’re right about being able to handle snow, Mr. President
Ottawa, half an hour ago:
Afghanistan: Surprise! Yes they can, "they" in this case being the Europeans...or some of them...
From our far-flung network of correspondents (OK, two websites) comes news that the French , the Germans and the Italians are all...
I want my Al Jazeera!
Y’know, when I was living in France, a big part of my newsgathering day was devoted to watching Al Jazeera English, a surprisingly...
Guess what vanished without a trace in yesterday’s BC budget?
The last fugitive traces of this report on the future of post-secondary education in BC, which sought to make the province the...
The business of education
Le Devoir editorialist Guy Taillefer notes that the $17.5 million allocated to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council...
Riding the (hypothetical, high-speed) vote train
Michael Ignatieff shows up in Quebec City, stands beside mayor, says he fully supports mayor’s "cherished" project of a high-speed...