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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.
Dominic LeBlanc
Not maybe . I’ve known him for more than a decade, never well. I don’t believe we’ve had a conversation longer than 10 minutes. I...
MUSIC: Dept. of improbably hip locales
Would you believe Winnipeg? I’m long overdue to get there and report a proper article about what Steve Kirby is doing as chairman...
The funk of forty thousand years
Eight hundred and eighty-one people in Austin, Texas, do the Thriller dance.
Ten candles
"I’m glad I didn’t pick the restaurant," Ken Whyte said as he looked around our meeting place, a truly mediocre Cajun place in the...
Housekeeping note
I’m closing Inkless to comments for at least the next several days. I had been urging readers to show better manners, and while...
From this week’s magazine
My column . The tone may surprise some who know I’ve long thought highly of Stéphane Dion. Simply put, it’s getting harder to...
UPDATED: Frank McKenna: The critics are raving!
"McKenna strides across the landscape of memory like a mythic hero on a grail-quest !!!!" — Alec Bruce, The Daily Gleaner...
Why he annoys Berlin
That’s actually the headline for this analysis of Nicolas Sarkozy’s chronic inability to charm the leaders of France’s most...