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

Klein in Munich

Imagine any self-respecting scribe’s reaction as he looks around a crowded press room in a foreign country and sees Time...

Ottawa

The Conservatives’ crowded legislative agenda

It’s crowded onto the budget implementation bill, which the Liberals have already promised to vote for. Turns out a lot of stuff...

Ottawa

What are they thinking in Kandahar? We could tell you, but...

Word last night from Roland Paris at the University of Ottawa, with whom I recently travelled in Afghanistan and who sent an...

Ottawa

Star turn

Toronto Star hires Michael Cooke as editor. Chicago Sun-Times (today’s weather: REALITY CHECK) scoops Star . Chicago Tribune...

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MUSIC: Last night I met this guy and I’m gonna do a little favour for him

For the upcoming War Child: Heroes album, music stars hand-picked younger artists to cover their tunes. Here’s The Hold...

Ottawa

More from Munich: Holbrooke in frustration

This is the last bit I’ll have for you on the blog from this weekend’s Munich Security Conference. My extended column in the next...

Ottawa

More from Munich: Gen. Petraeus’ no-spin zone

I believe David Petraeus’ speech at the weekend Munich Conference was by far the most important of the prepared remarks I...

Ottawa

Verbatim: Peter MacKay on the future of Afghanistan

The Defence Minister’s speech at the Munich Security Conference

Ottawa

You’re fired

I’ve been in Munich trying to save the world , but the most interesting thing I read during the breaks was this article in Le...

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Is Miles Davis really running Ottawa?

We face the future without a plan, with laws that mean nothing. It’s kind of like jazz.

Paul Wells

Klein in Munich

The Conservatives’ crowded legislative agenda

What are they thinking in Kandahar? We could tell you, but...

Star turn

MUSIC: Last night I met this guy and I’m gonna do a little favour for him

More from Munich: Holbrooke in frustration

More from Munich: Gen. Petraeus’ no-spin zone

Verbatim: Peter MacKay on the future of Afghanistan

You’re fired

Is Miles Davis really running Ottawa?

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