Paul Wells

I’m over here , liveblogging the super-historic election returns with Coyne and Feschuk. Or I will be as soon as I can figure out...

Music for a day’s long, happy wait. John Coltrane, Alabama , 1963.

Sometimes, even after many years, you notice what a pretty city Ottawa can be.

This has been another instalment of Things That Won’t Surprise You At All.

I asked this already, in the comments to another post, but it’s been nagging at me: Why did the Conservatives spend two years...

— Jesuit Relations XXII (1640), 307. Quoted by Harold Innis in The Fur Trade In Canada . Reading this account of the early years...

Benoît Pelletier is leaving politics . If you know Benoît Pelletier, that’ll come as a surprise. If not, don’t you worry.

After a prolonged apostasy caused by his inability to take Sarah Palin seriously, David Frum is voting for McCain, and explains...

The quote: — Lorne Gunter, yesterday The invitation: In 200 words or less, explain our war policy ! Snarky answers are...

Andrew Steele says Gerard Kennedy is thinking of running again. That matches what I’ve heard, including the lack of certainty:...