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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

Statements that are never true (an occasional series)

"It doesn’t get worse than this." — Guardian columnist Martin Kettle , after a Scottish Labour prime minister managed to lose a...

Glasnost

The Conservatives are meeting next week for their summer caucus meeting in Quebec City and Lévis. I am told that this year, in a...

Mr. Dion has a plan

From this week’s print edition: my column is built around an interview with Stéphane Dion. I have spent much of the past four...

Advance polling now open

That would be advance polling in the provincial by-election in Cape St. Francis, Newfoundland and Labrador. And it’s well in...

Toles

Actually not a classic, but I’ve been a fan since Reagan was president and it’s always good to have him around: