Music: Mozart’s stand
A few times a season, if I am a very good boy, the National Arts Centre Orchestra invites me to speak to audiences before their...
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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.
Rights and Democracy: The crisis before the crisis
The National Post ’s Graeme Hamilton has a fascinating story this morning based on access-to-information requests he filed more...
Are the oil sands holding Ontario up or hollowing it out?
A fascinating public debate has broken out between the premiers of Alberta and Ontario
The next NDP leader has a lot to lose
WELLS: Most of the party’s support came at the Liberals’ expense. That’s not a path to power.
The sound of Jean Charest’s election window closing
Despite assorted travails, Charest may have had a shot at winning another term. No longer.
A small country that made the right choices
Note that the partisan stripe of Australia’s governments has been just about the opposite of Canada’s for 15 years
Debating the Office of Religious Freedom
Welcome to The New Missionaries series, in partnership with the Canadian International Council
NDP leadership: toward a Topp-Mulcair alliance?
’It has to be either Brian or Thomas’
From the Inkless Emailbox: Oh Nathan, you radical
This corner occasionally prints news releases from all political parties because it’s so fun to be labelled a shill for assorted...
Hey look: Harper’s five-year plan
My expanded, reported column from this week’s print edition takes a few guesses about how China fits into Stephen Harper’s plans...