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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

Also from the magazine: Harper, Obama; Obama, Harper

A team effort — Geddes, Wells, Kohler, Ch. Savage — exploring the likely relationship between the Obama White House and the...

Ottawa

From the magazine

This week’s column . Humour... timeliness... and a bonus glaring factual error ! Andrew Steele was the first to email me pointing...

Ottawa

Boy, then you guys had really better not blow the election — oh, wait. Never mind.

OTTAWA - Opposition parties fear the Harper government intends to use the global economic crisis as an excuse to carry out...

Ottawa

Home news: Ken Whyte explains it all for you

Our oddly stylish boss talks about his new book and, eventually, about your (well, my) favourite magazine. And about this website.

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MUSIC: Charles Lloyd, Sangam

Don’t even get me started on how great this is.

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MUSIC: Keef

The December issue of Down Beat magazine has the reader poll, and it inducts Keith Jarrett into the Hall of Fame . The first link...

Ottawa

Georgia/Russia: What I like is how helpful everyone is trying to be

Shots fired at (near?) presidents of Georgia and Poland in (near?) (not so near?) South Ossetia.

Ottawa

What’s it been, after all, a week and a half? Time for a new Afghanistan policy

From the Inkless emailbox:

Ottawa

3 a.m. call-a-docious

Hillary Clinton . Because Stephen Harper always knew he was going to regret giving that job to Lawrence Cannon.

Ottawa

Afghanistan: Meanwhile in lovely Nova Scotia...

...Defence ministers from all the countries with soldiers in Regional Command South (including, most notably, Kandahar) are...

Paul Wells

Also from the magazine: Harper, Obama; Obama, Harper

From the magazine

Boy, then you guys had really better not blow the election — oh, wait. Never mind.

Home news: Ken Whyte explains it all for you

MUSIC: Charles Lloyd, Sangam

MUSIC: Keef

Georgia/Russia: What I like is how helpful everyone is trying to be

What’s it been, after all, a week and a half? Time for a new Afghanistan policy

3 a.m. call-a-docious

Afghanistan: Meanwhile in lovely Nova Scotia...

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