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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MUSIC: Playlist, 10 November 2008

This isn’t what comes up randomly on my iPod. It’s a belated reply to Doug Bell, who at the very wonderful 10th-anniversary secret...

Ottawa

Gold mine

Photos by Barack Obama’s official photographer David Katz, on Flickr. Thousands of them . More or less randomly-chosen highlights:

Ottawa

McCain’s campaign manager blames Republican congressional leadership

I confess I’m loving the Daily Beast , Tina Brown’s latest attempt to mix sensational and serious journalism. (She remade Vanity...

Ottawa

Everyone wants to be Obama’s friend

Andrew Rawnsley’s must-read Sunday Observer column is funnier than usual this week: Canadian Conservative officials were making...

Ottawa

UPDATED: The secret revealed — a happy day

Dear reader, there is something we have not been telling you. For weeks now, most reporters on Parliament Hill have known, but not...

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Have you paid your debt to society, ambitious Liberals? Uh-oh

Over the Inkless transom comes this brown envelope from the Liberal Party of Canada (Quebec), in anticipation of this weekend’s...

Ottawa

The march of technology

Japanese developers have developed a keyboard for the iPhone — turning it into a really large, bad, ugly BlackBerry:

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What a bunch of fuddy-duddies

Ooh, make the bad blog redesign go awaaay! Ooh, change is good if it’s a skinny black U.S. president, but bad if it’s a sans serif...

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What kind of exchange? Warm!

Emailed to Ottawa reporters a minute ago:

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This seriously isn’t looking like a flawless campaign kickoff

Day Two of the Quebec festivities: Jean Charest " isn’t ruling out " releasing information on the province’s fiscal...

Paul Wells

MUSIC: Playlist, 10 November 2008

Gold mine

McCain’s campaign manager blames Republican congressional leadership

Everyone wants to be Obama’s friend

UPDATED: The secret revealed — a happy day

Have you paid your debt to society, ambitious Liberals? Uh-oh

The march of technology

What a bunch of fuddy-duddies

What kind of exchange? Warm!

This seriously isn’t looking like a flawless campaign kickoff

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