In Lac-Mégantic, the investigation begins
Paul Wells on theories about how a 72-car train could just roll away and explode
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.
The Conservatives’ damage control deals: Mike Duffy’s not the first case
Paul Wells on Alan Riddell and the 2006 federal election
Buttering up the politics of popcorn flicks
Paul Wells on the deeper themes of summer blockbusters
Keystone: Obama changes the question. (This is big.)
The (small number of) ardent climate-change environmental activists I follow on Twitter were not expecting Barack Obama to say a...
What’s up next for PM Stephen Harper? A Maclean’s round table
Paul Wells, John Geddes and Aaron Wherry talk politics
How the control freak lost control
As a five-alarm gong show threatens to swallow Harper’s Conservatives, party faithful wonder if he’ll ever regain his grip
Justin Trudeau and unions
Should a political leader accept thousands of dollars from an interest group and then take positions on policy issues that defend...
Canada-EU trade: Any day now
Why is it taking so long? Paul Wells explains
The Quebec turban ban: What doesn’t get said
Paul Wells on multiculturalism and separation of church and state
A case for the Quebec soccer turban ban
Paul Wells asked for a good argument from a supporter of the ban. Here’s what he found.