Trump and Putin preside over the funeral for Ronald Reagan’s party
Paul Wells: U.S. conservatives have always believed there can be no moral equivalence between democrats and authoritarians. Those days are over.
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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.
This is Donald Trump’s world now
Paul Wells: Democracy and openness are in decline, and the U.S. president—not Canada—is on the winning side
Trudeau-Ford: The next chapter in Canada’s eternal campaign
Paul Wells: The Ontario Liberals (now in power in Ottawa) meet the Ontario Tories—it’s the latest chapter in a nasty fight that’s been going on for a decade
Trump-Putin: A summit in one act
Paul Wells: What will the Russian leader say privately to the U.S. president? Perhaps something about a little problem they have called NATO.
Justin Trudeau, west of Toronto, bailing water
Paul Wells: A region of considerable Liberal strength in 2015 has become a region of Liberal woe today, and ’Team Trudeau’ is taking notice
Happy Canada Day. Stay home.
Paul Wells: The country doesn’t need Ottawa to lead it on most days, and it needn’t indulge Ottawa’s desire to pretend it’s leading us all on Canada Day
The Trudeau Liberals’ fast one on equalization: Not so fast
Paul Wells: In the latest federal-provincial tangle over equalization, accusations are flying. Let’s check the Trudeau government fine print.
Jagmeet Singh has a lot of work to do
Paul Wells: The NDP leader addressed a stinker of a by-election result in Quebec with a pledge to do more. More of what? ’It’s all on the table.’
Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau: The empire of diminishing returns
Paul Wells: If these guys are so afraid of even the mildest retaliatory action, Canada and its serious allies should give Trump a response worth fearing
How Doug Ford did it
Inside the chaotic Ontario election campaign and the last-ditch effort that put the controversial PC leader in the premier’s office