Where the heck is Inkless? And on an election night, to boot?
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...
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.
Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?
Music for a day’s long, happy wait. John Coltrane, Alabama , 1963.
Noticed on the way into work this morning
Sometimes, even after many years, you notice what a pretty city Ottawa can be.
John Manley is not running for the Liberal leadership
This has been another instalment of Things That Won’t Surprise You At All.
Dept. of 20-20 hindsight
I asked this already, in the comments to another post, but it’s been nagging at me: Why did the Conservatives spend two years...
Asymmetric warfare on the St. Maurice, 1640
— Jesuit Relations XXII (1640), 307. Quoted by Harold Innis in The Fur Trade In Canada . Reading this account of the early years...
Council of the Holy Cow
Benoît Pelletier is leaving politics . If you know Benoît Pelletier, that’ll come as a surprise. If not, don’t you worry.
A swing voter swings, or decides not to
After a prolonged apostasy caused by his inability to take Sarah Palin seriously, David Frum is voting for McCain, and explains...
A quote and an invitation
The quote: — Lorne Gunter, yesterday The invitation: In 200 words or less, explain our war policy ! Snarky answers are...
Liberal leadership: a few notes
Andrew Steele says Gerard Kennedy is thinking of running again. That matches what I’ve heard, including the lack of certainty:...