Stephen Harper’s confession
Paul Wells on why Harper’s warning was really an admission— the Tories behaved like trust fund babies
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.
Wislawa Szymborska: We leave without the chance to practice
The great Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska died today in Krakow. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996. The Gazeta Wyborcza...
China’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...
Harper and pensions: the choices you make
Paul Wells on how this could have been an issue in any of the last six federal elections
Maybe it’s the health-care house that’s burning, not the pension house
This one’s making the rounds tonight: You should read the whole story. Some of it is less discouraging.
Today’s fodder for conversation
Pollster Jean-Marc Léger : "The race to succeed Jack Layton is much too long." Jack Layton’s last letter to Canadians: "I...
Sarkozy’s campaign director: Angela Merkel
In one of the elaborate prime-time TV interviews with selected interrogators that are a staple of French presidential...
If 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...
Katie Malloch retires
I 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...
Stephen Harper’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-him approach
Paul Wells on why Harper works harder than any prime minister in his lifetime to take himself out of the picture