’I come not to debate GOP conservatives, but to diagnose them’
Paul Wells explains why this election will be dead easy for conservative Republicans to rationalize
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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.
Bye bye mon Tremblay
If you take what Gérald Tremblay said at its face, he was one of the most gobsmackingly naive fools ever to wander Montreal
Science policy: First, ask the right questions
Question 1: Why should we fund science?
Notes on a hurricane
Paul Wells makes sense of the panic and swirl
Paul Wells explains why Canada’s policy on Roma refugees hits a flat note
A ’Gypsy’ jazz man on why so many of his people flee to Canada
Supreme Court: the emerging don’t-sweat-the-fine-print bloc
PAUL WELLS: Ted Opitz’s win was the Harper government’s first good day at the Court in a while
The Parliamentary Budget Office and the persistence of memory
This blog post on the Conservatives’ original goals for the post of Parliamentary Budget Officer would be perfectly unsurprising...
A centrist party that has lost its centre
Paul Wells on Dalton McGuinty stepping down and the Liberal party’s climb ahead
Harper’s budget limbo: Lower every time
Harper has a new assignment for Tony Cement—and Clement generally does what he’s sent to do
Dalton McGuinty and everything after
Who will replace Dalton McGuinty as Ontario Liberal leader? Writes Paul Wells: That is their problem