UncategorizedStephen Harper’s confessionPaul Wells on why Harper’s warning was really an admission— the Tories behaved like trust fund babies
OttawaWislawa Szymborska: We leave without the chance to practiceThe great Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died today in Krakow. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. The Gazeta Wyborcza...
OttawaChina’s oil imports from Iran take a great leap forward From the Wall Street Journal : That 557,000 barrels a day is about 10% more than Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline would send...
OttawaHarper and pensions: the choices you makePaul Wells on how this could have been an issue in any of the last six federal elections
OttawaMaybe it’s the health-care house that’s burning, not the pension houseThis one’s making the rounds tonight: You should read the whole story. Some of it is less discouraging.
OttawaToday’s fodder for conversationPollster Jean-Marc Léger : "The race to succeed Jack Layton is much too long." Jack Layton’s last letter to Canadians: "I...
OttawaSarkozy’s campaign director: Angela MerkelIn one of the elaborate prime-time TV interviews with selected interrogators that are a staple of French presidential...
OttawaIf only...I worry sometimes that the New York Times’ Tom Friedman is blowing a lot of his advantage as a columnist by spending too much time...
OttawaKatie Malloch retiresI was at the Rex Hotel in Toronto last week for the first time in ages and I was surprised to see a mention in the club’s schedule...
UncategorizedStephen Harper’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-him approachPaul Wells on why Harper works harder than any prime minister in his lifetime to take himself out of the picture