How NATO is getting serious about Russia
Battle-hardened troops are massing in Eastern Europe with a clear mission: Send a message to Putin
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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.
Canada’s mission to scare off Russia
Paul Wells visits Camp Adazi, Latvia, where a Canadian-led battlegroup marked its first official day on the job
What Quebec wants: To be a little closer to Canada
’It’s not time to open the constitutional table,’ says the minister heading up Quebec’s discussion on its place in Canada
Chrystia Freeland explains the world for you
Freeland’s speech suggested a Trudeau government policy of depending less on the United States than we did before, but it was lacking in specifics
Prime Minister Ella-Grace Trudeau?
On a U.S. morning show, Trudeau said he’d want to see his middle child as PM. Could Canada handle such a political dynasty?!
Donald Trump changes the climate game
In withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, Donald Trump has set in motion a number of powerful forces
A new survey explores what makes us Canadian
The Canada Project, a major poll of Canadians, finds a welcoming but wary country, where the starkest divides are generational
Inside Andrew Scheer’s unlikely triumph
How an under-the-radar MP from Regina overcame the high-profile distractions in a war for the soul of Canadian conservatism
Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party’s future
His wink-and-a-nod Conservatism will not be super-impressive to a nation of distracted voters. The job ahead is daunting.
What happens next in B.C.
The Greens and NDP now have a window to change the government of B.C.—but it’s about to slam shut.