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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.
More from the strangest presidential campaign ever
Yes, Biden actually said this. And while of course nobody can predict these things, there’s a decent chance he’s right. I think...
Sarkozy: Mr. Lisée is disappointed
Thanks to Norman Spector for sending me a note pointing out this op-ed in Le Monde , in which Jean-François Lisée explains to...
Le vote ethnique
In the 20 ridings with the highest proportion of visible-minority voters — ridings where the vis-min population ranges between...
"Liberals appear to be continuing a pattern of taking the vote of immigrants and their offspring for granted."
And here’s why they maybe shouldn’t .
Wells: Why Dion was not a leader, in his own words
The 8:30 a.m. tactics meeting got too big. So he began a secret 7:30 meeting. Guess what?
Mr. Bloomberg will see you now
The mayor of New York City gets city council to extend term limits , allowing him to run for a third term. I covered the...
MUSIC: The Beethoven intervention: Which Beethoven symphonies should you get?
I wrote about Beethoven earlier today — Thursdays are slow around here, and I’m trying to get the election out of my head, and...
Dept. of peripherally campaign-related things we’ve been talking about
From a long column on Barack Obama, which for our purposes you can mostly ignore: We were talking about this thing only this...
On today’s "explosive" Liberal caucus meeting
It wasn’t explosive. Here’s a memory from that distant golden time, i.e. this morning, when some people expected it to be...