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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PermanentTaxOnEverything: If you’re going to get beaten up, you might as well fight

I went camping with my brother and his hilarious kids a couple of weekends ago in Algonquin Park. We got eaten alive by...

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PermanentTaxOnEverything: The cavalry appears, from an unexpected direction

Those lying Lieberal leftards at the American Enterprise Institute explain the advantages of carbon taxes (sorry, green shifts )...

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PermanentTaxOnEverything: Let the festivities begin

The morning’s email blast from a Conservative Party spokesman, verbatim and in its entirety. “Let me give you the two bottom...

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Next two blogs on my iMeme

I forget from whose blog I swiped the idea, long ago, for the popular* Next 10 Tunes on my iPod feature. But now it has been...

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Duck and cover

During his brief stint as a serious candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, John Manley used to say that one...

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BC’s Permanent Tax On Everything apparently doesn’t pay for universities

I was wondering what’s up with Gordon Campbell’s really weird management of the higher-education file, which is turning into a bit...

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Stay Positive

I don’t know why The Hold Steady ’s new album, Stay Positive, is available only through a popular commercial download service for...

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Five months out...

...here are fancy charts and graphs to argue that, with the Republican nominee in trouble in Ohio and Florida, the Democrat is...

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Opposition to BC Carbon Tax grows!!!!

Support for BC government implementing carbon tax rises !!!!

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"If you like a T on your BLT, you know that elections matter"

There’s something particularly fascinating about politicians who aren’t actually that good at it. It would have been hard for a...

Paul Wells

PermanentTaxOnEverything: If you’re going to get beaten up, you might as well fight

PermanentTaxOnEverything: The cavalry appears, from an unexpected direction

PermanentTaxOnEverything: Let the festivities begin

Next two blogs on my iMeme

Duck and cover

BC’s Permanent Tax On Everything apparently doesn’t pay for universities

Stay Positive

Five months out...

Opposition to BC Carbon Tax grows!!!!

"If you like a T on your BLT, you know that elections matter"

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