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

So what, did Kerry win the 2004 election and I missed it?

Mark Steyn column , Chicago Sun-Times , Oct. 24, 2004, just before the Bush-Kerry presidential election: Article on superbugs in...

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Our man in Tskinvali

Actually, for the moment, we don’t have one. But the Georgia Messenger is liveblogging the unpleasantness in South Ossetia, and it...

Ottawa

Annals of wasted tax money III: I’m with the band

Here’s a short film about the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s State Department tour of Poland in 1958, when Brubeck was a wealthy musician...

Ottawa

Canada has nothing to tell the world

That’s the conclusion one must draw from the decision to can the program under which the Canadian government sent artists...

Ottawa

NATO’s adventures in the real world II: bulking up in Afghanistan

Bob Gates, who has until now been a bit of a post-Rumsfeld housekeeper as the U.S. Secretary of Defense and who is sometimes...

Ottawa

NATO’s adventures in the real world I: Proxy war with Russia, anyone?

"If it’s true that Russian troops and armaments have been sent to Georgia, it means that we are in a state of war with Russia,"...

Ottawa

Shanghai: No surprise

The 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities , from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is out. The "Shanghai rankings," as they’re...

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Even more on the National Post!

Lawrence Martin ponders the implications .

Ottawa

Oily the Splot: Terrifying international Svengali

Alert Inkless commenter jwl notes that Barack Obama’s gas-pump political ads, eerily reminiscent of the Conservative Party of...

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Next 10 tunes on my iPod

Of all the self-indulgent features of this blog, this is certainly the most self-indulgent. As always I hope you get something out...

Paul Wells

So what, did Kerry win the 2004 election and I missed it?

Our man in Tskinvali

Annals of wasted tax money III: I’m with the band

Canada has nothing to tell the world

NATO’s adventures in the real world II: bulking up in Afghanistan

NATO’s adventures in the real world I: Proxy war with Russia, anyone?

Shanghai: No surprise

Even more on the National Post!

Oily the Splot: Terrifying international Svengali

Next 10 tunes on my iPod

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