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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.

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Algebra

What I can’t understand is, if Peter Van Loan is going to take 29 questions — if it doesn’t matter which Liberal asks which...

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Incidentally...

It’s been nearly two months . Where’s the inquiry into Mulroney/Schreiber that this government promised and David Johnston...

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Joe Clark’s portrait

What a wonderful, wonderful painting. It’s distinctive, it’s plain, it depicts Clark on his feet in the Commons, which he so...

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Ports in a storm

Nicolas Sarkozy greets Stephen Harper at the Elysée Palace today. (Photo:

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Bernier: A handy reminder

The Chinese wall between what Stephen Harper cares about (loose documents) and what he claims not to care about (other loose...

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Bernier: Loose fingertips sink future leaderships

The biggest lesson from the Bernier affair is that Stephen Harper has no competence test for keeping a minister in cabinet. He has...

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Bernier: The critics are raving

From Yves Boisvert’s column in La Presse, which is not normally a funny read, but you know, sometimes there’s material: "There is...

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Document dump: liveblogging the Bernier defenestration

So it was Bernier, with the documents, in the undisclosed location. I knew it! Actually I totally didn’t know it. For the...

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Home news

This corner has purchased a copy of the new anthology of Christina McCall’s writing for Maclean’s and Saturday Night , My Life as...

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Ukraine’s president is addressing Parliament

I just thought I’d put that on the blog in case you’re watching Newsworld, because they’ve decided it doesn’t rate coverage.

Paul Wells

Algebra

Incidentally...

Joe Clark’s portrait

Ports in a storm

Bernier: A handy reminder

Bernier: Loose fingertips sink future leaderships

Bernier: The critics are raving

Document dump: liveblogging the Bernier defenestration

Home news

Ukraine’s president is addressing Parliament

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