Joe Oliver vs. the radicals, or among them
Paul Wells on how this battle has been brewing for a while
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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.
Hey look: the crystal ball in the PM’s head
From the print edition, my column for this week indulges what’s becoming an annual habit: I read transcripts of Stephen Harper’s...
Harper’s sleepy majority
Will Prime Minister Stephen Harper proceed with promised ’major’ reforms in 2012?
The Harperization of the Republican presidential field
Voters eventually turned to candidates with legislative experience–or at least an MD
Term limits for MPs: Hello, I must be going
Belinda Stronach has a new idea ! Let’s take it seriously for a few minutes. "Despite the apparent stability of a majority...
Harper’s Christmas interview with Fairchild
Paul Wells on how the PM might as well have his own show on Fairchild by now
Overrated in 2011: The List
Peter Donolo, Feist, and Mitt Romney’s supposed rivals make Paul Wells’s list
Harper’s team makes a Hail Mary
Let’s compare notes. Here’s one: Here’s another: And a third: One and the same! So a Harper friend of 30 years’ standing, who...
This Court doesn’t lean
Paul Wells on why Maurice Duplessis’s old saw about the Supreme Court being like the Tower of Pisa no longer applies