The Herman Cain bunny ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EdpN5C1_flQ Why... why no, I don’t have any questions.
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.
Broadbent and everything after
It’s hard to do one of these insta-bake histories of a complex historical event for the next day’s paper, and Joanna Smith has...
The complete Carl Sandburg talking points against Tom Mulcair
I. They tell me the new NDP leader is wicked and I believe them, for I have seen the new NDP leader’s painted women under the gas...
Brian Topp, just short
As I write this, New Democrats are voting on a fourth ballot for no very obvious reason. Basically Brian Topp is doing Jack...
Free advice to New Democrats: Let yourselves fall in love
Pick a leader who can galvanize a substantial segment of the electorate and not worrying about the rest
Hey look: Hewers of wood, drawers of power
In Ottawa a few weeks ago, I ran into an old friend who used to work for the Chrétien Liberals. He’s in the private sector now. I...
Canadian universities’ Brazilian ambition
Last October I wrote a really strange column noting that the government of Brazil is sending 75,000 students abroad on...
Jean Charest, prospector
The Quebec premier’s Plan Nord promises to transform Quebec—into Alberta
The Conservatives’ new ad. No, not Rae, the other one.
Everyone’s going to be talking about the giggling Bob Rae ad the Conservatives finally get to unleash, five years after they...
The New Mulcair Party
I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking Tom Mulcair probably wins the NDP leadership next weekend. If so, it would hardly be the...