Our federal leaders are ghosts of premiers past
Paul Wells on why Tom Mulcair sounds a lot like Jean Charest
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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.
Justin Trudeau: The man who makes Stephen Harper tremble
Paul Wells on how the new Liberal leader deals with the PM
Stephen Harper’s search for the root causes of terrorism
’We need to know as much as we can about terrorists, their tactics, and the best solutions to protect people ...’
A short history of backfiring Conservative ads
— Elizabeth Thompson, "Trudeau Attack Ads Backfired: Poll," iPolitics , April 19, 2013 — Geoffrey Stevens, “Sleazy Game of...
MUSIC: Caroline Shaw: a Pulitzer for whatever that was that she just sang
I wanted to get this New York Times profile of Caroline Adelaide Shaw, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for music, on the record...
The last time the Conservatives launched attack ads...
Besides the ads’ targets, has anything changed?
The National Health Council: Pillar of medicare, or not
Paul Wells takes sum of the Harper government cuts
Paul Wells on Press Gallery motives
Re: Trudeau, Conservatives, paid and earned media
Margaret Thatcher—the mother of Canadian Conservatives
Paul Wells: Thatcher’s legacy will weigh heavy on Harper as he pays homage
On attack ads
Paul Wells on political parties and the draw of the negative