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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.

Ottawa

Dutifully blogging Stéphane Dion’s knowledge-economy platform plank in a way our more sensitive readers will not find snide or dismissive!

So Stéphane Dion showed up at Western Western Western U (college fair and square™) this morning to unveil his plank on student...

Ottawa

UPDATED: Meanwhile, in Welland....

UPDATE: John Geddes checked and the Tories will not threaten the hookah-pipe tobacco market. ...Stephen Harper vows to crack down...

Ottawa

Liveblogging the fact that I’m not at Stéphane Dion’s morning event

9:42 a.m. We’re here in the Maclean ’s Ottawa nerve centre watching Stéphane Dion’s London event on Newsworld. Geddes has the...

Ottawa

Goodness

Here’s a poll that will delight and dismay our readers, c’est selon .

Uncategorized

Hockey’s often about organ damage, after all. Time to send in reinforcements

More from our search for Serious Musicians who’ve submitted entries to the Hockey Night theme contest: Andrew Ager , music...

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Toronto quarter-note rest

I want to thank regular Inkless readers for their forbearance as I cough up a medium-ambitious article for our print...

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Some people are even trading in their 8-year-old JetSki wetsuits for them

The latest frenzy in the eyewear market: Kawasaki 704 glasses , courtesy of.... her :

Ottawa

Maybe Dion IS like Obama

Remember the Democrat’s crushing electoral - college advantage? Buh - bye .

Ottawa

We seem to have a trend line

From Nanos . Discuss.

Ottawa

South shore seems so far away now

Ricardo Lopez, the Liberal candidate in Beauharnois-Salaberry, is no longer the Liberal candidate in Beauharnois-Salaberry. In...

Paul Wells

Dutifully blogging Stéphane Dion’s knowledge-economy platform plank in a way our more sensitive readers will not find snide or dismissive!

UPDATED: Meanwhile, in Welland....

Liveblogging the fact that I’m not at Stéphane Dion’s morning event

Goodness

Hockey’s often about organ damage, after all. Time to send in reinforcements

Toronto quarter-note rest

Some people are even trading in their 8-year-old JetSki wetsuits for them

Maybe Dion IS like Obama

We seem to have a trend line

South shore seems so far away now

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