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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Introducing your new Hockey Night theme...

Dodged a bullet here, as far as I’m concerned. There were countless thousands of entries a lot worse than this one . Over time I...

Ottawa

Let’s see what our celebrity judges make of this, shall we?

First, the issue of the day: And now, our two celebrity judges:

Ottawa

The acoustics here are wild. Can you hear the Ekos? (34-26-19-11-10)

Conservatives down two, Liberals up two, all your hopes and fears line up in rows and columns here .

Ottawa

A note to broadcasters looking for pundits

I’ll say No if you call to ask me on your show. I’m really busy and that won’t change before the election. Sorry, but there’s...

Ottawa

She’s leaving home, bye-bye

Here’s why the Conservatives are running ads like the one I posted below. From today’s Harris-Decima poll : Note that the Liberals...

Ottawa

All over in a Nanos-second: 33-27-22-10-8

Cons stay even, Libs down 2, NDP up 2, Green up 1, you can amaze your friends and family with massive quantities of data here .

Ottawa

Si vous étiez prémier ministre aujourd’hui, qu’est-ce que vous auriez fait à propos de l’économie que M. Harper n’a pas fait?

Am I close? I think I’m close. Help me out, mes Sans-Encre! I dearly wish this were less of an issue. I kind of wish somebody —...

Ottawa

Splits

In English Canada, the Liberals are still trying to drive down the Conservative vote... While in Quebec, they know the...

Ottawa

Oh, and Jack Layton?

Apparently not needed anymore .

Ottawa

Lavender blitz

I’m seeing a lot of this ad since yesterday. Here’s the easiest armchair-strategist question of the day: who do you suppose the...

Paul Wells

Introducing your new Hockey Night theme...

Let’s see what our celebrity judges make of this, shall we?

The acoustics here are wild. Can you hear the Ekos? (34-26-19-11-10)

A note to broadcasters looking for pundits

She’s leaving home, bye-bye

All over in a Nanos-second: 33-27-22-10-8

Si vous étiez prémier ministre aujourd’hui, qu’est-ce que vous auriez fait à propos de l’économie que M. Harper n’a pas fait?

Splits

Oh, and Jack Layton?

Lavender blitz

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